Stalemate At Minsk Summit And Eurogroup Meeting Suggests Tensions In Europe And Globally Are Set To Escalate – Diplomats best hopes for Minsk is for freeze in hostilities – Russia engages the U.S. in war of words as tensions mount

Minsk Summit Highlights A Shaky NATO Union – Russia Is Far From Isolated – Merkel and Hollande to attend peace talks in Belarus to resolve Ukraine’s civil war today – US and UK not invited – Germany and US present

Minsk Summit Highlights A Shaky NATO Union – Russia Is Far From Isolated – Merkel and Hollande to attend peace talks in Belarus to resolve Ukraine’s civil war today – US and UK not invited – Germany and US present

Syriza Defies Technocrats, US Pressure EU to Accommodate Greece, Greeks Buy Gold – Tsipras to push ahead with counter-reforms “in their entirety” – Dijsselbloem tells Syriza it must comply with Troika this week or have funding cut from February 28th

Trade Data show China’s Credit Bubble is Bursting, Investors Pull Cash out of China – Global Depression Ahead? – Chinese imports, primarily of raw materials, crashed 19.9% in January – Exports fall 3.3% against expectations of 6.3% rise – Total

 Oil Collapses and Copper Crashes 8% in Day – Great Recession Cometh? Oil prices fell another 1 per cent this morning  and continue their collapse – down 57% in just over 6 months. Copper crashed 8% on the London Metal