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European shares test two-year highs, yen volatile before BOJ
LONDON - European shares inched towards two-year highs on Monday, as a political attempt to break a budget impasse in the United States and expectations of aggressive Japanese stimulus bolstered the appetite for shares.
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UK regulator says changes afoot for "too complex" bank rules
LONDON - Bank capital rules coming into force this month are too complex and efforts to simplify them are already underway, a senior Bank of England official said on Monday.
Spain's bankers to strike as job cuts loom
MADRID - Workers at three of Spain's bailed-out banks will stage strikes in coming weeks as they fight mass layoffs, unions said on Monday, spreading industrial unrest to a sector where walkouts have so far been rare.
Greek banks' ECB funding rises in December, ELA down
ATHENS - European Central Bank funding to Greek lenders rose in December after the ECB started accepting the debt-laden country's debt as collateral again at its funding operations, Greek central bank figures showed on Monday.
Prosecutors charge three over Telekom Austria payments
VIENNA - Vienna prosecutors charged three people on Monday with helping to divert nearly 1 million euros ($1.3 million) from Telekom Austria to a right-wing political party.
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| DOW | 13,649.70 |  +53.68 |
+0.39% |
| S&P; 500 | 1,485.98 | +5.04 |
+0.34% |
| NASDAQ | 3,134.71 |  -1.30 |
-0.04% |
| TR US Index | 134.92 | +0.44 |
+0.33% |
Sector Summary
| Energy | +0.01% |
| Basic Materials | +0.25% |
| Industrials | -0.03% |
| Cyclical Goods & Services | -0.10% |
| Non-Cyclical Goods & Services | +0.02% |
| Financials | +0.04% |
| Healthcare | +0.12% |
| Technology | +0.07% |
| Telecoms | +0.07% |
| Utilities | +0.24% |
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