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•Greece says faces 24-hour deadline to clinch rescue
48 minutes ago
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has just one day left to strike a deal with impatient lenders and reluctant political party leaders on a 130 billion rescue plan before the country is pushed towards a chaotic default, its finance minister warned on Saturday.
[From Reuters: Business News]
•Shocked? Not! Not many surprises in Super Bowl ads
by By MAE ANDERSON
4 hours ago
NEW YORK (AP) -- If you're expecting to be shocked by all the Super Bowl ads, don't hold your breath: There won't be many surprises....
[From AP Top Business News At 12:06 p.m. EST]
•For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life
by By BARBARA ORTUTAY
5 hours ago
NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker....
[From AP Top Business News At 12:06 p.m. EST]
•Russia admits brief cut of gas supplies to Europe
by By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
7 hours ago
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's state-controlled Gazprom natural gas giant acknowledged for the first time Saturday that it had briefly reduced gas supplies to Europe amid a spell of extreme cold....
[From AP Top Business News At 12:06 p.m. EST]
•Hackers apparently hit Swedish government site
7 hours ago
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- A group linked to the hacker network Anonymous says it has attacked the Swedish government's website and shut it down by overloading it....
[From AP Top Business News At 12:06 p.m. EST]
•Deutsche Boerse board member wants CEO out: paper
8 hours ago
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Boerse's chief executive Reto Francioni should step down following the collapse of its $7.4 billion plan to merge with NYSE Euronext , a member of the German exchange operator's supervisory board told a newspaper.
[From Reuters: Business News]
•Palestinians call for PM's fall over taxes
9 hours ago
HEBRON, West Bank (AP) -- Hundreds of Palestinian protesters have called for their prime minister's resignation over recent tax and price increases....
[From AP Top Business News At 12:06 p.m. EST]
•Hungary seeks 15-20 billion euro IMF/EU credit line: official
9 hours ago
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary is seeking an international credit line of 15 to 20 billion ($20 to $26.3 billion) euros, the secretary of state heading the prime minister's office, Mihaly Varga, was quoted on Saturday as saying.
[From Reuters: Business News]
•Obama pressures Congress on housing
by By KEN THOMAS
10 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is rallying support for his plan to expand government assistance to homeowners, pressuring Congress to help lower lending rates for millions of strapped homeowners....
[From AP Top Business News At 12:06 p.m. EST]
•Report: Monti says Italy a "safe place"
by By GEIR MOULSON
12 hours ago
MUNICH (AP) -- Italy is now a "safe place" amid market turbulence, Premier Mario Monti said in an interview published Saturday, pressing for Europe to turn its political energy to generating growth rather than further plans to strengthen budget discipline....
[From AP Top Business News At 12:06 p.m. EST]
•Google Privacy Policy: Close But No Cigar
19 hours ago
Last week was a pretty good one for the notion of privacy in America, which has increasingly become forlorn and tattered as a result of the advancement of digital technology.
[From ABC News: Money]
•Super Bowl Tickets Top $16K
19 hours ago
Dante Cassiani of Boston has earned his stripes as a "diehard" New England Patriots fan by driving 950 miles to Indianapolis this weekend in the hope of watching his favorite team play the Super Bowl.
[From ABC News: Money]
•Canadian PM to visit China next week
by By ROB GILLIES
21 hours ago
TORONTO (AP) -- Canada's prime minister heads to China next week where he'll discuss Canada's vast oil reserves in a visit that's being viewed as an "open warning" to the United States, which rejected a pipeline from Canada to Texas....
[From AP Top Business News At 12:06 p.m. EST]
•Jobless rate at 3-year low as payrolls surge
21 hours ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to a near three-year low, giving a boost to President Barack Obama.
[From Reuters: Business News]
•Greek debt talks to stretch into weekend
by By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS
21 hours ago
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- "Crucial" issues remain to be resolved in Greece's critical negotiations over a second multibillion euro international bailout, and talks would continue into the weekend, the country's Finance Minister said early Saturday....
[From AP Top Business News At 12:06 p.m. EST]
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