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Papandreou Races Against Time to Cut Borrowing Costs as EU Splits on Aid Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is racing to secure an explicit pledge of European aid and cut his country’s borrowing costs as 20 billion euros ($27 billion) of debt comes due in the next two months.

Lafarge Bonds Show Investors Dismiss Threat of Rating Downgrade to Junk Lafarge SA bond prices show investors are convinced Chief Executive Officer Bruno Lafont will win his quest to keep an investment-grade credit rating, even as the world’s most indebted cement maker skirts junk status.

Euro Set for Worst Week Since February Start on Greece Concerns; Yen Slips The euro is set for its biggest weekly loss since the start of February as concern Greece will fail to secure financial assistance from the European Union damped demand for the currency.

Lehman Seeks $11 Billion From Barclays, Including $5 Billion `Windfall' Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the investment bank liquidating in bankruptcy, said it was seeking a total of $11 billion from Barclays Plc, including a $5 billion “windfall” allegedly gained by the U.K. company when it bought Lehman’s North American brokerage.

RBS Cuts Loans to Clean Energy Companies in Snub to Brown's Green Goals Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, historically the biggest commercial lender for renewable energy projects, has scaled back loans to the industry since the U.K. government bailed out the company in 2008.

Betting Against Hedge Funds Smart Energy's Lang Aims to Repeat 83% Return The top-ranked investor in renewable energy last year is betting hedge funds are wrong.

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Erdogan Thwarting Judges Amid Army Probes Fails to Upset Turkey's Markets Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose government is already backing an investigation of senior Turkish military officers, this month will seek curbs on a judiciary that has teamed with the army to oppose his Islamist-rooted party.

Mexico Tourism Drops as Drug Gangs, Economy Rain on Spring Breakers' Party Mexican tourism revenue may decline for a second year as violent clashes between drug gangs and a weak U.S. job market threaten to spoil its spring break party.

Traders' Mobile Phones Would Be Recorded in U.K. Plan to Curb Inside Deals Traders’ mobile-telephone calls may be taped in an effort to stamp out insider trading, according to proposals from the U.K. financial regulator.

Zapatero's Campaign to Avoid Greek Deficit Fate Hobbled by Spanish Regions Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s drive to show Spain can avoid Greece’s fate is being held hostage by the country’s regional governments.

Malone's Liberty, Elliott Said to Drop Out of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bidding John Malone’s Liberty Media Corp. and hedge fund Elliott Management Corp. have decided not to bid for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. movie studio, according to people with knowledge of the bidding.

Obama's Job Disapproval Rating Tops Approvals for First Time: Chart of Day As President Barack Obama enters his final drive for congressional passage of health-care reform, the number of Americans who don’t like the job he’s doing has climbed above the level who approve for the first time.