European stock markets closed higher on Monday, with London's benchmark FTSE 100 index gaining 0.91 percent to 5,905.70 points.
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Business Bank Accounts – Do You Need Them
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LONDON - The leading shares index closed higher on Monday, led by commodity and financial stocks, after Greece moved a step closer to securing an international bailout and avoiding a messy default. At the close, the FTSE 100 index was up 53.31 points, or 0.9 percent, at 5,905.70, in volume just 70 percent of the 90-day average, with many traders in London away for the school half-term holiday
ATHENS - Greece has agreed to recapitalise its struggling banks after a planned bond swap largely through common shares with restricted voting rights, a banking source told Reuters on Saturday. The banks are expected to require recapitalisation because of impaired loans and losses from a bond swap to ease Greece's debt burden. Investors were worried that banks would fall under state control if they were recapitalised via common voting shares rather than non-voting instruments.
GENEVA - Petroplus's UK administrator said on Sunday that it had bought a cargo of crude oil for processing at its Coryton plant as it seeks to conclude negotiations with interested parties to save the plant. Switzerland's Petroplus, the owner of the 175,000 barrel per day plant near London, has filed for insolvency, and PricewaterhouseCoopers has maintained operations at Coryton since January 24.
LONDON - The blue-chip stock index was higher at midday Wednesday, with sentiment boosted by upbeat economic data from China, strong corporate earnings, and expectations for an imminent Greek debt deal. The FTSE 100 index was up 78.04 points, or 1.4 percent, at 5,759.62 at 1228 GMT, with mining stocks providing the biggest boost after data showed the factory sector in China -- the world's largest consumer of metals -- unexpectedly expanded in January. ...
LONDON - Nervous hedge funds managers are stress-testing their portfolios and searching for ways of protecting themselves against their worst nightmare -- a potential break-up of the euro zone. With talks on restructuring Greece's debt mountain still deadlocked, and the exit of one of more countries from the euro seen as a small but definite possibility, funds are modelling scenarios ranging from a 50 percent slump in European stocks or a 45 percent fall in the oil price to a 30 percent rise in gold. ...
NEW YORK - World stocks fell on Friday on news the U.S. economy grew more slowly than expected in the last quarter of 2011, while the euro rose on hopes of an imminent deal on Greece's debt that could help avert a disorderly default.
LONDON - Royal Bank of Scotland's Chairman Philip Hampton will not pick up a share-based bonus, the part-nationalised bank said on Saturday, amid a backdrop of public anger over a 1 million pound stock bonus for its chief executive. "Sir Philip Hampton will not receive the 5.17 million shares he was awarded in 2009 when he joined RBS," said a spokesman for the bank, which is 83 percent owned by the British government after a state bailout during the 2008 credit crisis
BRUSSELS - France outlined on Tuesday a blueprint of its own tax on financial transactions to other EU countries, in a fresh attempt to win backing for such a scheme across the European Union. President Nicolas Sarkozy is hoping the tax will be introduced in France before the end of the year, meaning that parliament would have to approve it before breaking in February ahead of presidential elections
Shares in French banks slid on Tuesday after Standard & Poor's downgraded them, following its downgrade of France's sovereign rating.
