IBT Staff Reporter

British television production company Shed Media on Monday confirmed it was in offer talks with Warner Bros Entertainment Inc, a unit of Hollywood media group Time Warner .

The euro and Australian dollar hit their highest levels in about a month on Monday after China allowed the yuan to rise to a post-revaluation high, though analysts said option barriers were hampering further gains.

China's currency will not be a specific topic of discussion at the G8/G20 meeting, while paying for future oil spills will be on the agenda, the Kremlin's top economic aide said on Monday.

British television production company Shed Media on Monday confirmed it was in offer talks with Warner Bros Entertainment Inc, a unit of Hollywood media group Time Warner .

Stocks and commodities jumped on Monday and U.S. Treasuries fell after China let the yuan rise to the highest since July 2005, with more currency flexibility easing tensions with the West and encouraging investors to snap up riskier assets.

Greece's central bank chief said on Monday that fiscal and structural measures within the EU/IMF support package for Greece will help to return the country's economy to growth and with sustainable public finances.

Crude prices rose 2.2 percent on Monday to the highest since early May after China vowed to allow a flexible yuan exchange rate, raising expectations of higher petroleum imports by the world's second-largest oil user.

Chinese interest rate swaps fell on Monday after Beijing said it would allow more flexibility in its yuan currency, sparking hopes there will be less urgency to tighten monetary policy by raising interest rates.

Landry's Restaurants Inc Chief Executive Tilman Fertitta's $1.4 billion bid for the seafood restaurant operator received the support of a crucial shareholder on Sunday, the Wall Street Journal said, citing a person familiar with the matter.

The biggest threat to Britain's economy is its huge budget deficit, and an emergency budget on Tuesday will save the country from the fate of debt-stricken Greece, British finance minister George Osborne said on Sunday.

The yuan CNY=CFXS soared to a five-year high on Monday as the Chinese central bank stepped aside and tolerated broad gains on the first trading day after its ditched the currency's two-year peg to the dollar.

Gold continued its upward streak to touch a new all high on Monday due to China's decision to allow flexibility in Yuan that pushed yellow metal to $ 1262.5 per ounce.

When we talk about Afghanistan, the first picture we get is Taliban and Osama bin Laden. But Afghanistan has a different face too. It is one of the richest nations as far as minerals are concerned.

The high prices of gold is threatening several families in a different way. According to reports, the Cambodian government has threatened to burn homes of almost 100 families who are living at the site of a gold deposit recently discovered by an Australian mining company.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Monday, rising alongside global stocks after China's vow to allow a flexible yuan exchange rate boosted investors' appetite for risky assets.

Stocks and commodities jumped on Monday and U.S. Treasuries fell as investors bet China will allow the yuan to rise after promising more currency flexibility, easing political tensions with the West and encouraging investors to snap up riskier assets.

Verizon Communications will let customers try its FiOS Internet and television service for a month without charging them fees for early contract termination if they switch off the service after that.

China's yuan bolted to a 21-month high on Monday, suggesting authorities are unshackling the currency from its de facto 23-month-old peg to the dollar after vowing greater flexibility at the weekend.

Global markets celebrated on Monday at the merest hint that China would let its currency appreciate, showing just how badly the Middle Kingdom is needed to drive a recovery in the sagging world economy.

JPMorgan Chase is in talks to buy a large Brazilian asset management company, the Financial Times reported in its Monday edition.

Former Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos swept to a landslide victory in Colombia's run-off election on Sunday to succeed President Alvaro Uribe as the leader of Washington's top ally in Latin America.

Global markets celebrated on Monday at the merest hint that China would let its currency appreciate, showing just how badly the Middle Kingdom is needed to drive a recovery in the sagging world economy.

Former defense minister Juan Manuel Santos won an easy victory in Colombia's run-off election on Sunday to succeed President Alvaro Uribe as the leader of Washington's top ally in Latin America.

The Australian Dollar has rallied more than one cent this morning after Friday night's close to trade over 0.8800 after the PBOC (People's Bank of China) announced on the weekend that it will make the RMB exchange rate more flexible in the future but will still maintain a trading band of +/-0.5%.

China's signal that it will ease its currency's 23-month-old peg to the dollar will spare the country from U.S. lawmakers' wrath only if it opens the door to significant upward movement in the yuan.

Policymakers in the world's major economies will closely monitor the Chinese yuan this week for signs it is actually moving after Beijing announced it would make its exchange rate more flexible.

The Australian Dollar opens higher this morning and is exchanging at 0.8678. In the offshore session to dollar moved between 0.8580 and 0.8680 as risk appetite returned to the markets.

The biggest threat to Britain's economy is its huge budget deficit, and an emergency budget on Tuesday will save the country from the fate of debt-stricken Greece, British finance minister George Osborne said on Sunday.

(Corrects maximum payroll tax break size in paragraph 14)