Greece Awaits Troika’s Return As August ECB Payment Looms

Greece’s cash-strapped government is racing to meet another deadline as it tries to finalize a new bailout agreement before a payment on bonds held by the European Central Bank comes due on Aug. 20.

Eurozone set for volatile 2014 as it tackles banks

Paris (AFP) - The eurozone is finally set to return to growth in 2014 but the single currency bloc may not have put its crisis behind it as efforts to shore up its banks could boomerang.

Euro zone loans contraction increases pressure on ECB

(Reuters) - A contraction in loans to households and companies in the euro zone quickened in October, piling pressure on the European Central Bank to do more to buoy the euro zone's weak recovery.

ECB'S Nowotny sees no need to act on forex rates - paper

VIENNA (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny sees no need to act now on currencies, he told a newspaper, reiterating the ECB had no target for the euro's exchange rate.

French Banks Say EU Summit Important Step To Stability

The French Banking Federation said in a statement published late Friday that the results of the European summit Thursday and Friday are an important step towards ensuring stability in the euro zone and will build investor confidence.

IMF Gets $456 Bln. Boost To Fight Crisis

(RTTNews.com) - The International Monetary Fund added $456 billion to its war chest as 12 more nations, including the BRICS, pledged new money to protect the global economy from the impact of the Eurozone debt crisis at the ongoing G20 meeting in Los Cabos, Mexico.