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Germany rejects Greece 'take-it or leave-it' debt offer
Germany rejected a take-it or leave-it request by Athens for a six-month extension to its EU loan programme.
20 February 2015
Greece eyes pain-free EU loan deal
Greece was expected to bid for extra debt crisis aid from the EU without strings attached, ahead of a closely-watched ECB meeting on the country's emergency funds.
18 February 2015
Swiss prosecutor orders probe, search of HSBC offices
Investigators launched a search of British banking giant HSBC's Geneva offices as part of a money laundering probe.
18 February 2015
Britain's Tesco picks new chairman
Troubled British supermarket giant Tesco named John Allan as chairman, ending a four-month search after Richard Broadbent resigned amid an accounting scandal.
18 February 2015
UK's Labour details pre-poll economic plan
Britain's main opposition Labour party outlined its economic plan to try to woo middle-income voters ahead of an anticipated closely-fought election in May.
17 February 2015
Greece handed ultimatum as eurozone bailout talks collapse
Eurozone ministers have handed Greece an ultimatum to request an extension to its bailout programme after crunch talks collapsed.
17 February 2015
French MPs to vote on controversial reform plan
Millions of tourists in Paris will be able to shop all-week long if French MPs pass a controversial set of reforms seen as vital to unblock its stuttering economy.
17 February 2015
Greece, eurozone thrash out high-stakes debt rescue changes
Greece goes into talks with its eurozone partners demanding changes to a massive international bailout.
16 February 2015
HSBC boss says SwissLeaks claims 'painful'
The boss of HSBC, which is at the centre of claims that it helped customers at its Swiss private bank avoid millions of dollars of tax.
14 February 2015
World Bank to provide up to $2 bn in aid to Ukraine
The World Bank said it is prepared to provide up to $2 billion in financial assistance to conflict-torn Ukraine this year.
13 February 2015
Nazarbayev urges state companies to support tenge
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has urged Kazakhstan's state companies to sell dollars and buy the tenge.
13 February 2015
Kazakh President calls to look for new markets for domestic products
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has declared it is time for domestic enterprises to search for new markets to sell their products instead of Russia.
13 February 2015
Plan to mitigate devaluation in Kazakhstan presented by Khudaibergenov, Ushbayev
With the coming of February Kazakhstan's population and businesses were holding their breaths waiting for the National Bank's next move on the tenge. Is devaluation inevitable and how bad can it be? Kazakhstani experts Olzhas Khudaiberganov and Anuar Ushbayev say they have a plan.
12 February 2015
Microsoft buys smartphone calendar app Sunrise
Microsoft announced that it has acquired hit mobile calendar application Sunrise in a deal reported to be valued about $100 million.
12 February 2015
Low oil prices won't spur world growth: Moody's
Low oil prices normally help grease the wheels of business and spur global economic growth, but Moody's said it would not revise its forecasts for the G20,.
11 February 2015
HSBC not protected from charges over aiding tax evasion: US official
HSBC's 2012 criminal settlement with the US Justice Department does not protect the bank from fraud or tax evasion charges.
11 February 2015
Greece wants to fix debt problem with EU, not other powers
Greece's foreign minister said his left-wing government wants to resolve the nation's debt squeeze with Europe.
11 February 2015
G20 'determined' to lift growth but rifts remain
The world's top 20 economies expressed determination to raise global growth but struggled to overcome divisions over the most suitable methods .
11 February 2015
Kazakh delegation visits Tatarstan
An oofficial delegation from Kazakhstan has visited Tatarstan, one of the most developed regions of Russia.
11 February 2015
Samsung and Microsoft end patent dispute
Samsung and Microsoft said they had ended a patent dispute that had seen the US software giant sue the South Korean conglomerate for breaching a 2011 licensing contract.
10 February 2015