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BONDS

The largest company listed on the Athens stock exchange is seeking to re-list in the UK, potentially placing it in the FTSE 100, as the company attempts to flee the Greek economic crisis.

International lenders will meet this weekend to discuss an emergency lifeboat worth up to €15bn, in a bid to stop the Greek crisis spreading to Eastern Europe.

Will James, European equity income fund manager at Standard Life Investments, explains why investors should not turn their backs on the region despite the negative headlines.

EUROPE

A Greek exit from the single currency would be a 'catastrophe', the country's Prime Minister reiterated over the weekend.

Greece is understood to have created a working group to assess how much Germany owes it in war reparations, in an astonishing twist to the eurozone crisis.

Greece's European lenders have demanded the government in Athens enforces a six-day working week in order to meet the terms of the country's second bailout.

LGIM's HODGES

BlackRock's Continental European Income fund was launched in May last year at a time when Europe was the last place many investors wanted to be, but this was part of the appeal, according to fund manager Alice Gaskell.