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“If we don’t find a solution, we will have to do bridge financing”, he said, referring to a short-term loan so Greece can make its next debt payment on August 20.

In Berlin, the government said it expected Athens to press ahead with its reform agenda and the finance ministry said aid disbursements would be delayed should the elections cause any delay in an examination of the programme.

(Close): Wall Street fell for a fifth consecutive trading session amid a dramatic global sell-off as fears over China’s slowing economy intensified.

Concerns about a China-led global economic slowdown and tumbling commodities prices had U.S. traders fearing the worst after a 5 percent decline in the both the S&P and Dow last Thursday and Friday.

“I’ve been married for 19 years and every day I’m working to be a better man for my family, seeking guidance along the way”, the music mogul told The New York Times.

Oil prices fell. But investors also saw opportunity, moving fast and early to snap up some bargains.

When a gunman opened fire on a 500-passenger train from Amsterdam to Paris Friday afternoon (August 21), it appeared the scene would end in a bloodbath. All three of us started punching him and grabbed him again and put him unconscious while Alek was hitting him.

The New York Stock Exchange invoked a rule saying market makers don’t have to disseminate price indications before the opening bell in an effort to make it easier and faster to open stocks on a volatile trading day.

By increasing demand for them, the government hopes prices will rise. As the slide highlighted on Monday, those efforts have not been a success.

The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 8.5 percent, its biggest one-day loss since February 2007.

Tsipras was to make an announcement Thursday night, another government official said, while he was expected to also visit the country’s president – a necessary formality in calling early elections, for which he would have to step down as prime minister. With a...

“Of course there were differences, but we have managed to solve the last issues”, Eurogroup Chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem told reporters in Brussels.

Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey said that though markets would remain volatile for a while, the global economy’s fundamentals remained fairly strong.

Greece’s partners in the euro currency are debating whether to give that country billions of dollars in new loans, now that the Greek parliament has passed a package of painful reforms and spending cuts.

A Taliban suicide vehicle bomber killed five people Monday near the entrance of Kabul s worldwide airport, the latest in a barrage of violence that has convulsed the Afghan capital since Friday.