Oil prices rose on Monday as dealers focused on crunch Greek debt talks and a possible return of Iranian supplies to the market.
U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate for July delivery gained 56 cents to $60.17 a barrel compared with Friday's close.
Full StorySwiss travel group Kuoni said Monday it was selling its European tour operating activities to German retailer REWE, but did not disclose the price.
The Zurich-based firm, in the midst of widespread restructuring, said it had agreed to sell its tour operating business, as well as its travel agencies in Switzerland, Britain, Scandinavia, Finland and the Benelux countries to REWE's travel arm DER Touristik.
Full StoryThe European Central Bank (ECB) again increased emergency liquidity funds for Greece's banks Monday, according to a Greek bank source who said the ECB may renew the hike "at any time" if necessary.
The new increase of the ECB's Emergency Liquidity Assistance was the third since Wednesday and came as Greek savers continued withdrawing their money in large volumes from the country's banks.
Full StoryThe fate of Greece and the euro will "largely be decided" on Monday, the EU's economic affairs commissioner said hours before the eurozone holds an emergency summit on Athens' debt crisis.
"We are approaching an absolutely decisive moment," Pierre Moscovici told French radio, adding that he believed a deal could be reached at the summit for Greece to avoid a default.
Full StoryTens of thousands of people joined an anti-austerity march through central London on Saturday, the first major public protest since Prime Minister David Cameron won last month's general election.
Demonstrators, some of whom had traveled from across Britain, carried placards with slogans such as "End Austerity Now" and "No Cuts" as they snaked through the city from the Bank of England to the Houses of Parliament.
Full StoryThousands have massed outside of the Bank of England for a march to protest against British government austerity programs and spending cuts.
Saturday's march from the financial district to Parliament Square is intended to be peaceful, but demonstrators are angry at public sector cuts meant to address government deficits, which ballooned after Britain rescued troubled banks during the 2008 financial crisis. Demonstrators argue the public is being punished for a crisis it did not cause.
Full StoryJapan's telecom carrier SoftBank paid vice president and ex-Google executive Nikesh Arora a whopping $135 million in the year to March, reports said Saturday.
The amount included a one-time, sign-on bonus for the Indian-born 47-year-old, according to the Nikkei business daily and the Asahi Shimbun.
Full StoryThe International Monetary Fund, deadlocked with Greece over further financial aid, approved a new loan installment for Cyprus on Friday, now the only other eurozone country receiving its bailout support.
As with Greece, the negotiations between Cyprus and the so-called troika -- the IMF, European Commission and European Central Bank -- had bogged down over the economic reforms demanded by the creditors in exchange for the financing.
Full StoryEU president Donald Tusk told Greece to accept a debt deal with its international creditors or face defaulting as he prepared an emergency summit Monday on Athens's future in the eurozone.
"The situation of Greece is getting critical," Tusk said in a video message Friday.
Full StoryEuropean Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker voiced frustration with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in a media report Friday amid the deepening debt crisis.
"I don't understand Tsipras," Juncker told German news weekly Der Spiegel after he and Tsipras recently fell out a number of times.
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