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With sparse data, focus returns to Europe

By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) - Europe will again be at the center of investors' focus this week as the U.S. earnings season passes the halfway mark and there is little on the...

With sparse data, focus returns to Europe

By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) - Europe will again be at the center of investors' focus this week as the U.S. earnings season passes the halfway mark and there is little on the...

With sparse data, focus returns to Europe

By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) - Europe will again be at the center of investors' focus this week as the U.S. earnings season passes the halfway mark and there is little on the...

Glencore, Xstrata hammering out final deal details

By Clara Ferreira-Marques and Victoria Howley CAPE TOWN/LONDON (Reuters) - Top executives at trader Glencore <GLEN.L> and miner Xstrata <XTA.L> are hammering out the final details of an $80 billion tie-up to seal the...

Glencore, Xstrata hammering out final deal details

Euro zone insists no Greek rescue without reforms

By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers told Greece it could not go ahead with an agreed deal to restructure privately held debt until it guaranteed to implement reforms to secure...

Euro zone insists no Greek rescue without reforms

Wen says China has stake in helping Europe

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has a stake in helping euro zone countries get through their debt crisis, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said in comments published on Sunday, pointing to Europe's importance as a market and hinting at more possible support for beleaguered exporters. ...

China's Wen says country has stake in helping Europe

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has a stake in helping the euro zone countries get through their debt crisis, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said in comments published on Sunday, pointing to Europe's importance as an export market and as a source of technology. ...

Olympus to hold shareholder meeting on April 20

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's troubled Olympus Corp said on Sunday it will hold an extraordinary shareholders meeting on April 20, when it is expected to seek approval of a new management team. The maker...

Most Germans want Greece to quit euro: poll

BERLIN (Reuters) - The majority of Germans feel the euro currency bloc would be better off if debt-crippled Greece left it, a poll published in mass-selling newspaper Bild am Sonntag showed on Sunday. The...

Eurozone loses patience with Greece

By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers told Greece on Saturday it could not go ahead with an agreed deal to restructure privately-held debt until it guaranteed it would implement reforms...

Eurogroup's Juncker warns of possible Greece default

BERLIN (Reuters) - The possibility of a sovereign default by Greece cannot be ruled out, Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the Eurogroup of finance ministers from the single currency zone, said in a German magazine on Saturday. ...

Deutsche Boerse board member wants CEO out: paper

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Boerse's <DB1Gn.DE> chief executive Reto Francioni should step down following the collapse of its $7.4 billion plan to merge with NYSE Euronext <NYX.N>, a member of the German exchange operator's supervisory board told a newspaper. ...