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The European Union’s financial affairs chief Pierre Moscovici told German radio on Friday, just before a Bundestag vote on a bailout extension for Greece, that allowing any country to leave the euro zone would simply raise the question “who’s next?”. “If a country, any country, leaves, the question will arise: who is leaving next?” the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs told Deutschlandfunk in an interview.

While GM will still sell cars like the Cruze sedan in parts of Southeast Asia, an emerging markets battleground for global automakers, it is shifting focus to push the ‘American heritage’ of its SUVs and pickups such as the Trailblazer and Colorado. The restructuring – under Executive Vice President Stefan Jacoby, who oversees markets beyond the Americas, Europe and China – marks a retrenchment in Asia by the U.S. automaker. While business grows in China, the world’s biggest autos market, GM has struggled in other parts of its international operations unit, which doesn’t include China.

Gold pulls back on Friday as dollar strength lingers, putting $1,200-an-ounce in a battle position.
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Hong Kong stocks erase earlier gains and close lower, with local property shares weaker amid concerns about possible tightening measures on Hong Kong’s housing markets..
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The lower house of Germany’s parliament votes on the four-month extension of Greece’s bailout on Friday, and looks likely to approve it despite mounting irritation in Berlin at the tone of the left-wing government in Athens.
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As Germany prepares to vote on a four-month extension to Greece’s bailout on Friday, frustration with Greece’s financial demands is palpable.

Google is pulling an important new sales lever, saying it will let software developers pay to promote their apps in the Play store for the first time.
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