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02:00 Here Are The Key Market Moving Events For Monday, February 6, 2012 (SYY, BWP, HCA, NLSN, HUM, HAS, CSTR, AMLN, PXD, YUM, NCR, USG) (Business Insider)
 Monday starts off a busy earnings week, while data streams out of Asia, Europe and South America. Nonetheless it will be a relatively quiet day, as Pioneer Natural Resources and Yum Brands announce. There are not any economic reports scheduled for release on Monday in the U.S.
Here's what you need to know.
- Australia starts the day off with retail sales at 7:30 p.m. EST on Sunday evening. Sales are seen increasing 0.2 percent in December, after a flat reading the month before.
- Data goes quiet until 3:00 a.m. EST, when Halifax home prices in the United Kingdom are released. Expectations are for the metric to rise 0.1 percent in January, reversing a 0.9 percent decline in December.
- At the same time, Czech industrial output and Taiwan CPI will be announced. Economists polled by Bloomberg see output expanding by 1.3 percent year-on-year, while CPI advances 2.2 percent year-on-year.
- Swedish service production will be announced at 3:30 a.m. EST. It is expected to increase 0.2 percent month-on-month in December.
- At 6:00 a.m. EST, German factory orders are set for release. Orders are seen increasing 1.0 percent in December, against a 4.8 percent decline in November.
- Attention shifts to South America at 6:30 a.m. EST. First up, economic activity in Chile. Economists polled by Bloomberg forecast the index to be 3.9 percent higher than last year. In November, the economic activity index grew by 0.8 percent from October.
- Brazilian auto sales will be announced at 7:30 a.m EST. In December, some 348,415 vehicles were purchased in the nation.
- At 9:00 a.m. EST, Ecuadorian CPI will be released. It grew by 0.4 percent in December.
- Last on the agenda are early announcements out of New Zealand, at 4:45 p.m. EST. Average wages are expected to increase 0.5 percent in the final quarter of 2011. That is slower than the 1.3 percent advance seen in the third quarter.
U.S. corporates reporting quarterly results on Monday include names like Yum Brands and Pioneer Natural Resources. Below, a roundup of tomorrow's big announcers.
Sysco (SYY): $0.44
Boardwalk Pipeline Partners (BWP): $0.41
HCA Holdings (HCA): $0.76
Nielsen Holdings (NLSN): $0.49
Humana (HUM): $1.21
Hasbro (HAS): $1.05
Coinstar (CSTR): $0.64
Amylin Pharmaceuticals (AMLN): -$4.23
Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD): $1.03
Yum! Brands (YUM): $0.74
NCR (NCR): $0.56
USG (USG): -$0.72
Consensus estimates provided by Bloomberg.
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Like many things in my life, I let this “nugget” (sorry) slip through the cracks last year. He recently updated it with our new numbers in the recent release and it’s quite compelling.
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The Greek PM has failed to secure a bondholder agreement despite appealing for help from the bosses of the IMF and the ECB to help break the dangerous deadlock.  
The Prime Minister will today face a stormy showdown with Britain's business leaders who are dismayed about the Government's perceived anti-business agenda.  
Bob Diamond's potential £11m pay packet at Barclays is set to reignite the continuing row over bankers' bonuses.  
Dubai's government has walked away from the $10bn debt restructuring of one of its biggest conglomerates, leaving creditors, including RBS, with exposure to potentially big losses.  
Okay, so any hope of a Greece deal before the Asian markets close is off.
According to the FT, talks will resume on Monday.
There's really one key dynamic to understand here...
You know the phrase: "If you owe your bank a thousand dollars, then you're in trouble, but if you owe your bank a million dollars, then youre bank is in trouble."
Well for a long time, Greece was in the latter half of that, owing a ton of money, but seemingly holding all the cards, as a Greek bust threatened to take down the entire system.
But European leaders aren't afraid anymore. They're willing to tell Greece to take the hard choices, and that if they don't want to do it, then the option is bust. The success of the ECB's LTRO probably has a lot to do that. So all Greek talks are internal: Will leaders accept more hard choices or not. The international community isn't so worried.
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The talks between Glencore and Xstrata over an $88bn (£57bn) merger, the biggest mining deal ever seen, are promising to shake up the world of commodities.  
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Leaders of parties supporting Greece's coalition government say crisis talks for huge new debt deals will continue Monday.
Coalition backers held a five-hour meeting late Sunday with Prime Minister Lucas Papademos to hammer out a deal with debt inspectors representing eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund — but again failed to reach an agreement.
Greece is racing to finalize austerity reforms needed for a new euro130 billion ($171 billion) without which it would face bankruptcy in late March.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Leaders of parties supporting the Greece's coalition government say crisis talks for massive new debt deals will continue Monday.
Coalition backers held a five-hour meeting late Sunday with Prime Minister Lucas Papademos to hammer out a deal with debt inspectors representing eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund — but again failed to reach an agreement.
Greece is racing to finalize austerity reforms needed for a new euro130 billion ($171 billion) without which it would face bankruptcy in late March.
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