Troubled renewable energy giant Abengoa on Tuesday posted a full-year loss of 1.2 billion euros ($1.3) for 2015, a month after unveiling plans to avoid becoming one of Spain's biggest bankruptcies. 

The Seville-based company reported the loss a year after posting a net profit of 125 million euros, an increase of 24 percent compared with that of 2013. 

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Tuesday that an EU-IMF audit of the debt-laden country's reforms would likely resume by March 10, hinting that the process was being delayed by divisions among the creditors.

"My estimate is that (senior creditor representatives will) return in the first ten days of March," Tsipras said in a televised interview.

India's government promised billions of dollars to help struggling farmers and boost the rural economy as it unveiled its annual budget on Monday, looking to kickstart growth and bolster its flagging popularity.

Eurozone inflation in February plunged sharply back into negative territory, data showed on Monday, in the clearest sign yet that several rounds of stimulus measures by the European Central Bank are not working.

The ECB is under huge pressure to revive prices and the economy in the single currency zone, with many of the 19 national governments that use the euro still not delivering a convincing recovery three years after the eurozone debt crisis.

Inflation across the 19-country eurozone turned negative in February, official figures showed Monday, in a development that will boost expectations that the European Central Bank will unveil another stimulus package at its next policy meeting on March 10.

Statistics agency Eurostat said consumer prices across the region were down 0.2 percent in February from the year before, against a 0.3 percent rise the previous month. The decline was way more than anticipated — the consensus in the markets was for a drop to zero.

China's central bank on Monday fixed its rate for the yuan currency at a four-week low, data showed, despite comments by chief Zhou Xiaochuan that there was no basis for further depreciation.

The People's Bank of China (PBoC) set the yuan at 6.5452 to $1.0, down 0.17 percent from Friday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System. The fix was the weakest since February 3, previous figures showed.

Oil prices rose Monday, boosted by hopes strengthening growth in top consumer the United States will soak up some of the global supply glut that has weighed on markets.

At around 0600 GMT, the U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate for delivery in April had risen two cents to $32.80 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. 

French farmers dumped flour over the stand of a leading meat producer at the country's annual farm show Sunday, a day after they heckled President Francois Hollande as he arrived at the event.

The farmers' anger has boiled over after months of protests over a crisis in the agricultural sector sparked by collapsing beef, pork and milk sales and augmented by a price war with wholesalers.

Finance officials of the world's biggest economies promised Saturday to use "all tools" to shore up sagging global growth and to avoid devaluing their currencies to boost exports, but made no pledges of joint action.

Finance ministers and central bankers of the Group of 20 rich and developing countries tried to reassure jittery financial markets that the global economy is healthy, though they acknowledged in a statement that they "need to do more" to boost growth.

China's normally reclusive central bank chief Zhou Xiaochuan is an unusually prominent presence at the G20 finance ministers meeting in Shanghai, racing from seminar to news conference to spread positive messages about the world's second-largest economy.

After months of silence, the governor of the People's Bank of China (PBoC) wants investors to know that the yuan currency -- also known as the renminbi (RMB) -- will be stable despite the slowest growth in a quarter of a century.