Private creditors said on Sunday they had come to the limits of what losses they could concede in a Greek debt swap, putting the ball in the court of the EU and the IMF in a tense race against the clock to avoid a messy default.
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After a bruising clash in South Carolina, the two Republican presidential frontrunners will take their battle to a bigger stage when the campaign moves to Florida on Sunday.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Shares of scandal-hit Olympus Corp jumped more than 7 percent in heavy trade on Monday after the Tokyo bourse kept the company listed, but placed it on its "security on alert" list for firms needing to urgently improve their internal management.
The economy probably grew at the fastest pace in 2011 in the final three months of the year, a report is expected to show this week, but the first quarter of 2012 probably won’t be as strong, analysts say.
Five years after the credit crisis began, Western economies are confronting the prospect of a lost decade of growth, and international diplomats are warning the damage could get even worse if Europe allows.
Stocks rising, bulls rampant are motifs you might pick if designing a coat of arms for Wall Street at the moment.
But the motto should read: Caveat emptor.
Apple Inc coasts into 2012 with a strong wind in its sails, a clutch of envelope-pushing products in its hold, a record share price, and a steady hand at the tiller.
But its very success - with the market-leading.
Apple Inc coasts into 2012 with a strong wind in its sails, a clutch of envelope-pushing products in its hold, a record share price, and a steady hand at the tiller.
But its very success - with the market-leading.
Apple Inc coasts into 2012 with a strong wind in its sails, a clutch of envelope-pushing products in its hold, a record share price, and a steady hand at the tiller.
But its very success - with the market-leading.
Apple Inc coasts into 2012 with a strong wind in its sails, a clutch of envelope-pushing products in its hold, a record share price, and a steady hand at the tiller.
But its very success - with the market-leading.
Apple Inc coasts into 2012 with a strong wind in its sails, a clutch of envelope-pushing products in its hold, a record share price, and a steady hand at the tiller.
But its very success - with the market-leading.
Apple Inc coasts into 2012 with a strong wind in its sails, a clutch of envelope-pushing products in its hold, a record share price, and a steady hand at the tiller.
But its very success - with the market-leading.
Apple Inc coasts into 2012 with a strong wind in its sails, a clutch of envelope-pushing products in its hold, a record share price, and a steady hand at the tiller.
But its very success - with the market-leading.
Apple Inc coasts into 2012 with a strong wind in its sails, a clutch of envelope-pushing products in its hold, a record share price, and a steady hand at the tiller.
But its very success - with the market-leading.
Apple Inc coasts into 2012 with a strong wind in its sails, a clutch of envelope-pushing products in its hold, a record share price, and a steady hand at the tiller.
But its very success - with the market-leading.
Apple Inc coasts into 2012 with a strong wind in its sails, a clutch of envelope-pushing products in its hold, a record share price, and a steady hand at the tiller.
But its very success - with the market-leading.
Apple Inc coasts into 2012 with a strong wind in its sails, a clutch of envelope-pushing products in its hold, a record share price, and a steady hand at the tiller.
But its very success - with the market-leading.
Apple Inc coasts into 2012 with a strong wind in its sails, a clutch of envelope-pushing products in its hold, a record share price, and a steady hand at the tiller.
But its very success - with the market-leading.
Apple Inc coasts into 2012 with a strong wind in its sails, a clutch of envelope-pushing products in its hold, a record share price, and a steady hand at the tiller.
But its very success - with the market-leading.
The Arab League demanded on Sunday that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad step down and form a national unity government with opposition forces, marking an uptick in the League's increasingly muscular efforts to resolve the 10-month bloody uprising.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The annual Masters of the Universe Ball, also known as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is upon us.
Coming as it does on the heels of a humbling Wall Street earnings season, we are sure to hear and read even more than we already have about how the Titans of Finance have lost their shirts, their influence, their dinner reservations, or all of the above.
ISTANBUL, Jan 22 (Reuters) - News Corp {NWSA.
O] is considering bidding for Turkish group Calik Holding's media assets ATV and Sabah, Wall Street Journal reported citing sources familiar with the.
HELSINKI, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Pro-euro presidential candidate Sauli Niinisto grabbed the lead in Finland's first election round on Sunday, according to an early tally, showing voters prefered his.
Jan 22 (Reuters) - Among the roll-call of hip-hop artists and other celebrities plugging Megaupload.
com's digital storage services in an online promotional video, a cameo from the website's founder would have gone unnoticed by many.
The euro started the week in Asia with a negative tone as investors turned wary after Athens and its creditors failed to agree on a debt swap deal that is vital to avert a chaotic default for Greece.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that his government plans to buy new Embraer jets from Brazil as well as used Airbus jets to expand his country's state airline Conviasa.
Chavez said Venezuela.
Investors hate uncertainty, and there are some big questions hanging over the economy right now.
Here's what you can do to make money if or when they happen.
The inside scoop on Sean Avery's spinning joint, Gabrielle Hamilton's favorite breakfast spot, Chloe Sevingy's East Village shopping haunts and Gay Talese's favorite tailor.
Disclosures of individual interest-rate forecasts at this week's Federal Reserve meeting might be enough to snap Treasurys out of their slumber, if officials signal an even-longer era of cheap money.
Federal Reserve officials will spell out, for the first time, how they expect short-term interest rates to move for the next three years—a move that has the potential to jolt the foreign-exchange market over both the short and long term.
The ECB's program of offering three-year loans to euro-zone banks at cheap interest rates has given Europe's bond market a psychological boost and driven down yields on struggling nations' debt.
Germany rejected calls for boosting the size of the planned euro-zone bailout fund, even as talks on restructuring Greek debt stalled over the weekend and raised the specter of a possible Greek default.
China's crude-oil imports from Iran last year were up 30% from 2010, to about 557,000 barrels a day, while its overall crude imports were up just 6.
1%.
Japan's main opposition party repeated demands for a snap election before tackling controversial tax-increase legislation, raising the political stakes for Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.
Croatians voted Sunday in favor of joining the European Union amid a small referendum turnout—a sign of how much the debt-stricken 27-nation bloc has lost in its appeal within the aspiring members states.
The ex-president of Madagascar, overthrown in a 2009 military coup, was blocked Saturday from returning home, dealing another setback to his bid to lead the island nation again.
Rescuers resumed searching the above-water section of the Costa Concordia cruise liner, but choppy seas kept divers from exploring the submerged part, where officials have said there could be bodies.
A cargo ship loaded with cement sank in the central Philippines and another vessel carrying iron ore went down off the country's eastern coast, the coast guard said.
All 32 crewmen from both ships were rescued.
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NEW YORK (LowCards.
com) -- We've all been tempted by the immediate benefit -- save 10% or maybe even 15% on your current purchase when you apply for the store's credit card.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- It's been sad to watch Occupy Wall Street since it was ruthlessly evicted from Zuccotti Park.
It has seemed aimless, unfocused and only gets attention when its members are arrested.
The following commentary comes from an independent investor or market observer as part of TheStreet's guest contributor program, which is separate from the company's news coverage.
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LONDON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Sweden's IKEA, the world's biggest furniture retailer, is withholding its entry into India because of rules applied to sourcing local products, chief executive Mikael.
LONDON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Redemption requests by hedge fund clients have fallen to the lowest monthly level on record as improving market sentiment combined with a typical seasonal lull in asset.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volkswagen is considering how to acquire the remaining 50.
1 percent of Porsche SE's sports car business prior to November, when put-call options first foresee a deal, Dow.
ZAGREB, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Croatia voted on Sunday to join the European Union next year, shrugging off concerns over the economic turmoil in the bloc and fears that membership will compromise its.
ZAGREB, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Croatia voted on Sunday in favour of joining the European Union in 2013, according to preliminary official results of a referendum with 25 percent of votes counted.
PARIS, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Socialist challenger Francois Hollande, front-runner in the race to unseat French President Nicolas Sarkozy, declared war on the world of finance on Sunday in a keynote.
KANO (Reuters) - Gun and bomb attacks by Islamist insurgents in the northern Nigerian city of Kano last week killed at least 178 people, a hospital doctor said on Sunday, underscoring the challenge President Goodluck Jonathan faces to prevent his country sliding further into chaos.
TOKYO, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Following are orders for Japanese stocks placed through nine foreign securities houses before the start of trade on Monday.
Japanese Stocks: BUY 27.
GIGLIO, Italy Jan 22 (Reuters) - Divers searching the wreck of the Costa Concordia have located the body of a woman in the submerged part of the wrecked Italian cruise liner, officials said on Sunday, bringing the total number of known dead in the accident to 13.
TEL AVIV, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Intel Corp named Mooly Eden, the head of its PC Client Group (PCCG), as president and general manager of Intel Israel and head of the company's perceptional computing group, the U.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve could take the historic step this week of announcing an explicit target for inflation, a move that would fulfill a multi-year quest of the central bank's chairman, Ben Bernanke.
Teachers have the most important job in America.
To understand why, listen to the story of Olly Neal, whose life was turned around by an English teacher.
As the world economy is reshaped by the technology revolution and globalization, two new gilded ages are emerging: one in the West and one in developing nations.
Building Apple’s iPhone in the United States would demand much more than hiring Americans — it would require transforming the national and global economies.
Oil prices are expected to reach record levels this winter, but many users are unable to switch to natural gas or electricity, whose prices are going in the opposite direction.
Lane-keeping technology, soon to be available in more cars, is intended to keep vehicles from drifting across lane markers, but it is suited only for certain road conditions.
Katherine Hays of GenArts, a visual effects technology company, says she has learned to step back more and to have employees see themselves as owners of their work.
The effort consists of imposing a phased oil embargo on Iran and sanctions against dealing with Iran’s central bank to press Tehran into talks on its nuclear program.
SYDNEY (MarketWatch) -- Australia's fourth-quarter final producer price index rose 0.
3%, according to data released Monday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
SYDNEY (MarketWatch)-- Australian shares fell in early Monday trading, after debt talks between Greece and its private sector creditors stalled over the weekend.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.
There’s a subtle distinction to make between ETFs and mutual funds, so first ask about the underlying assets and management before evaluating which one is right for you, according to MarketWatch’s Chuck Jaffe.
Shares of ailing Kingfisher Airlines Ltd.
jump as India’s government announces plans to allow foreign carriers to buy up to 49% of domestic operators.
The coalition prime minister's austerity programme is taking us back to 1970s Britain, a time of slow growth, rising unemployment and soaring bankruptcies, writes.
Croatia is set to become the EU’s 28th member state in July 2013, pending the results of the referendum as well as ratification by all 27 current member states.
The European Central Bank last week removed 3,192 debt instruments from a list of assets against which it would lend, The Financial Times reports on its website Sunday.
The report said nearly all the assets removed were French certificates of deposit.
BP PLC (BP) has joined the race for oil explorer Cove Energy PLC (COV.
LN), a company that discovered an ample gas field just off the coast of Mozambique, The Sunday Times reports.
Food prices and security, threatened by weather-caused production declines and relentless rising demand, will be a key issue at the conference of world business, political and social leaders.
An independent member of Australia's parliament said on Saturday he had withdrawn his support for Prime Minister Julia Gillard, cutting her minority government's buffer to just a single vote.
Former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown says he will vote against coalition plans for a cap on benefits paid to households, unless more is done to cushion the impact of the policy.
