(Reuters) - Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) and Kraft Foods Inc (KFT.N) began airing a messy divorce in public on Monday, fighting over the dissolution of their partnership selling bags of Starbucks coffee at supermarkets. News of the breakup first surfaced on November 4, when Starbucks Chief Executive Howard Schultz said on a quarterly conference call that Starbucks wanted to end its 12-year deal with Kraft, which markets and distributes Starbucks and Seattle's Best coffees to supermarkets and stores like Target Corp.

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(Reuters) - The global recovery continues to be "very uncertain," but a double-dip recession is unlikely, the World Bank president said in an interview to an Indian news channel to be aired later on Monday. In June, the World Bank had warned of a possible double-dip recession in some countries if investors lost faith in efforts in Europe and elsewhere to tackle rising debt levels.

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(Reuters) - Former Merrill Lynch-owned lender First Republic Bank filed with U.S. regulators on Monday to raise up to $280 million in an initial public offering of common stock. The bank, which specializes in lending to wealthy families, completed a management buyout in July. Before that it was owned by Merrill Lynch and, more recently, by Bank of America Corp (BAC.N), which bought Merrill at the height of the financial crisis.

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(Reuters) - Commercial real estate vacancy rates have already peaked or will soon top out, though rents are likely to continue to fall, a realtors group said on Monday. The National Association of Realtors said it expects the vacancy rate for office space to rise a tick to 16.7 percent this quarter and gradually decline to 16.4 percent in the final three months of next year.

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(Reuters) - The Supreme Court said on Monday that it rejected an appeal by Tiffany & Co (TIF.N) arguing that eBay Inc (EBAY.O) should be held liable for trademark infringement for selling counterfeit goods on its website. The case has been widely viewed as a major legal challenge in the United States to Internet companies such as eBay, Google Inc (GOOG.O) and others that host services that other people provide. They have argued they should not be held responsible for users' trademark violations.

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(Reuters) - There is no sign that investors' headaches from Europe are going away, but early indications of strong holiday spending and an improving labor market could soothe Wall Street next week. Fears that Europe's debt crisis could spiral out of control have pushed stocks off two-year highs hit earlier this month. Since November 5, the S&P has fallen 3.1 percent after running up 17 percent over the two months before that. At Friday's close, the S&P 500 was down 0.9 percent for the week, almost matching the Dow's 1 percent drop.

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(Reuters) - The European Union was poised to approve an 85 billion euro ($115 billion) rescue for Ireland on Sunday and announce outlines of a permanent system to resolve Europe's spreading debt crisis, a euro zone source said. Finance ministers from the 16-nation euro zone, anxious to prevent financial market contagion from engulfing Portugal and Spain, met to endorse an emergency loan package to help Dublin cover bad bank debts and bridge a massive budget deficit.

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(Reuters) - BP said it had agreed to sell its stake in Argentina-based oil and gas group Pan American Energy (PAE) to Bridas Corp, half-owned by China's CNOOC, for $7 billion, as it raises cash to pay for the Gulf oil spill. The planned sale of the 60 percent interest, which sources previously said was under discussion and which was for a price in line with analysts' estimates, brings to $21 billion the amount that BP has raised, or agreed sales on, in recent months.

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(Reuters) - Germany and France have reached an agreement on how a future permanent mechanism for resolving debt crises in the euro zone should work once it is introduced in 2013, euro zone sources said on Sunday. The main points of the deal were expected to be announced later on Sunday after a meeting of European Union finance ministers on approving a financial rescue for Ireland to prevent market contagion spreading to Portugal and Spain.

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(Reuters) - Early discounts may have taken some of the shine off Cyber Monday but the key online holiday shopping day is still expected to attract bargain hunters who may not have had their fill over the weekend. Cyber Monday -- a term coined five years ago for the day many people return to work after Thanksgiving and make online gift purchases on their computers -- remains a prime shopping day online. But its novelty has now been partially eclipsed by e-commerce promotions earlier in the season, including on Thanksgiving itself.

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