People will never love banks - our relationships are necessarily fraught, and tainted by the suspicion we're being clipped for services of dubious value.

EU ministers struggled overnight to work out a new rescue mechanism for troubled governments in an attempt to keep markets from targeting weaker eurozone members before Asian markets open this morning.

The opening of Europe's financial markets tonight will unleash a battle that may decide the fate of the single currency.

A general strike in Greece over the next 24 hours is expected to paralyse the country.

Greece and the wider eurozone scrambled back from the brink of disaster again on Friday as the outline of an IMF/eurozone rescue package emerged.