U.S. stocks futures fell on Thursday, pointing to a weaker start for Wall Street, reversing gains from the previous session and mirroring falls in Europe, with investors' attention likely to be focused on results from Dell (DELL.O) and Wal-Mart. By 0913 GMT (4:13 a.m. EST), futures for the Dow Jones, the S&P 500 and the

The massive manufacturing complex in the South China city of Longhua resembles an industrial fortress. To enter the facility, workers swipe security cards at the gate. Guards check the occupants of each vehicle with fingerprint recognition scanners. Container trucks and fork lifts rumble nonstop across the sprawling compound, serving a grid of factories that churn

Societe Generale expects results to recover in 2010 with lower bad risk write-downs after it rattled markets last month with a toxic asset warning. France's second-biggest listed bank has had to trim back much of its previously-booming investment banking activities after taking bigger hits than many of its rivals from the global credit crisis. The

Should Germany ride to Greece's rescue if it can't even provide for its own? Behind a facade of principled opposition to bailing out debt-stricken Greeks, the question increasingly haunts the corridors of power in Berlin. Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has so far resolutely deflected appeals to promise aid despite fears that failure to help Athens

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said on Wednesday his debt-stricken country was not seeking European taxpayers' money but needed a breathing space to cut its budget deficit and borrow "on normal conditions". He made the comments after European Union finance ministers told Greece it will have to take additional austerity measures to achieve steep deficit

Ministers of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment Michalis Polynikis, and Minister of Communications and Works Nicos Nicolaides, who have resigned, are expected to remain in office until the next meeting of the Council of Ministers. The two Ministers resigned after the Movement of Social Democrats EDEK withdrew from the government. Speaking after a cabinet meeting