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Saturday

Billions of euros of emergency loans will arrive in Athens within days, after the Greek Prime Minister officially requested assistance from fellow euro members and the International Monetary Fund.
Greece seeks aid from EU and IMF

Bail-out money will buy Greece only a year. The Greek prime minister's formal request for 45bn from the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund should deal with its immediate financing needs. But there's still no hard promise of cash for year two.
Bail-out money will buy Greece only a year

It was a worse performance than the fourth quarter of 2009, when the economy emerged from recession with a 0.4pc increase in gross domestic product (GDP).
Britain's recovery slows with surprise fall in growth to 0.2pc

As former Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer has said several times, the era of "easy oil" is over. This means that the bulk of the oil that is left to exploit is to be found in the tar sands and in ultra-deep water and other marginal resources, such as the Arctic.
Peak oil predictions

Senior watchdog officials spent hours viewing pornographic material on government computers when they should have been regulating Wall Street during the worst fiscal crisis since the 1930s. The worst offenders were caught accessing thousands of images, spending up to eight hours a day looking at pornography and burning the inappropriate material on to scores of CDs and DVDs kept in boxes at the regulators offices.
Wall St regulators spent hours watching porn instead of monitoring crisis

Monday

GERMANY, France and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) must act quickly to bail out Greece to prevent a slide in confidence in financial markets, Alistair Darling said yesterday. Treasury sources say privately that politicians and officials have sent mixed messages on the support package, which has made a difficult situation worse.
Greek meltdown in danger of spreading

Germany's finance minister Wolfgang Schauble has raised fresh obstacles to the 40bn (35bn) aid package for Greece, warning that Berlin will not transfer funds until Athens agrees to tougher terms.
Germany refuses to help Greece unless it agrees to tougher terms

Hot money is flooding into emerging economies at a rate which threatens the creation of property and financial bubbles similar to those that preceded the financial crisis, says Standard Chartered.
Liquidity surge threatens Asia credit crunch

After a brief tumble in February on fears that the Chinese economy was overheating, commodity prices resumed their upward trajectory. This has ensured mining shares kept moving higher - until two weeks ago.
Are metals prices heading for a fall?

The housing market continued to lose momentum this month as homes for sale came onto the market at a faster pace than new househunters, according to the property research group Hometrack.
Lack of potential buyers sees housing market slow

A damning verdict on the activities of Goldman Sachs and other investment banks was delivered by the chairman of a US Senate panel yesterday when it released emails showing Goldman officials discussed making "serious money" out of the sub-prime crisis.
Goldman 'bet against securities it sold to clients'

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Good morning traders!

In Asia this morning, the Nikkei was up 239.29 points at 11,153.75, while the Hang
Seng ended the morning ahead 345.26 points at 21,589.75.

Crude oil traded at $85.51 a barrel on Nymex.

Gold settled at $1,158 an ounce.

Happy Monday!

G.

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News today of selling the Telecom business to reduce debt.
the chart still looking good and on moving higher from 40p, the road is clear to 55p

spread 40.50 / 40.75p
only 1.3K left at offer and then 5K at next price 41p
a very strong order book with 6 extra trades at bid side and double the total volume (depth

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