8.45am update: Mortgage lender's shares plummet as much as 34% as the run on the bank gathers pace. By Fiona Walsh.

Greenspan's Memoir Shows Dangers of Irrational Book Advances (Bloomberg.com)
Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) -- For someone who made headlines with his every utterance -- even if no one could agree on what he had said -- Alan Greenspan offers few newsmaking moments in his eagerly awaited memoir, ``The Age of Turbulence,'' published today with great ballyhoo.