Greece won’t accept bailout programs like past ones: spokesman
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece is committed to not continuing an international bailout similar to the ones agreed with the EU and IMF by previous governments, its spokesman said on Sunday.
Swiss banks trade Zurich’s costly charm for Polish provinces
WARSAW/KRAKOW (Reuters) – Swiss financial titans UBS and Credit Suisse are expanding their operations in provincial Poland in a cost-saving drive made more urgent by the surge in the value of the Swiss franc.
Eyes of the world on Greece
LONDON (Reuters) – The coming week will go a long way to dictating whether Greece remains in the euro zone.
Greeks brim with pride as country totters on the edge
ATHENS (Reuters) – For over a fortnight, Europe’s single warning to Greece has been that the chaos and misery of national bankruptcy await it unless its new left-wing government changes its anti-austerity tune.
CFO Yoshida’s Sony revamp wins over investors, tough decisions loom
TOKYO (Reuters) – Months after Sony Corp bought So-net, the broadband provider’s chief chided CEO Kazuo Hirai for having his “priorities in the wrong order”.
Tesco to cut up to 10,000 jobs: Sunday Telegraph
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s biggest supermarket Tesco could cut up to 10,000 jobs as part of its attempts to halt a slide in profits, a newspaper reported.
Apple studies self-driving car, auto industry source says
FRANKFURT/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Technology giant Apple is looking beyond mobile devices to learn how to make a self-driving electric car, and is talking to experts at carmakers and automotive suppliers, a senior auto industry source familiar with t…
Michele Ferrero, owner of Nutella empire, dies at 89
MILAN (Reuters) – Michele Ferrero, Italy’s richest man and the owner of a global chocolate and confectionery empire, died on Saturday aged 89, the company said.
U.S. whistleblower summoned to testify in UBS case in France
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former UBS AG banker who helped U.S. authorities prosecute the Swiss bank in a tax fraud case has asked for permission to travel to France to comply with a subpoena in another investigation of the company, according a court doc…
Brazil probes link between HSBC Swiss accounts, Petrobras scandal: sources
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s tax watchdog opened a probe on whether about a dozen people involved in the Petrobras corruption scandal also allegedly had undeclared accounts with HSBC Holdings Plc’s private bank in Switzerland, two sources with knowle…
