ECB to reveal strategy for bank health checks by end-March

(Reuters) - The European Central Bank kept the euro zone's top lenders on tenterhooks as it promised to reveal the strategy for its unprecedented review of bank balance sheets by the end of March, giving only scant detail on Monday.

'Don't hollow out financial transactions tax', says EU tax chief

(Reuters) - The European Union's top tax official has called on member countries not to dilute proposals for a financial transactions tax in the euro zone, suggesting the bloc could instead implement the plan more gradually.

ECB’s Hansson Says Rate Cut Options Not Fully Exhausted

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s reliance on fiscal and monetary easing to defeat deflation may precipitate a “plunge” in the yen and sovereign bonds, said Noriko Hama, an economics professor at Doshisha University’s Business School in Kyoto.

Europe Pauses to Consider Draghi’s Remarks

Economists, analysts and market participants continued on Friday to digest the assurances made by the president of the European Central Bank that he was willing to resume the purchase of sovereign bonds sometime in the future in concert with the euro zone’s rescue fund.

German minister dismisses talk of Spain debt purchases

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble threw cold water Saturday on speculation that the eurozone's bailout fund will buy Spanish public debt.