Reuters - Shareholders in ABN AMRO will weigh three key events in the coming week to decide which of two rival bidders will clinch control of the Dutch bank after a six-month takeover battle.

AFP - The ECB says it is ready to raise interest rates, but the euro's strength along with record oil prices and uncertainty from the US home loan crisis has delayed a hike that now looks even less likely.

Reuters - Stocks rose on Thursday after brokerages upgraded General Motors Corp. and Merck & Co. and McDonald's Corp. boosted its annual dividend by 50 percent.

Reuters - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is doing "an excellent job" running the U.S. central bank, former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan told the CBS program "60 Minutes," according to excerpts released on Thursday.