(Reuters) - Stocks rose at the open Monday, with the S&P 500 recouping nearly all of its declines from the previous session, as Greece's parliament approved strict financial reforms needed to obtain its latest international bailout package. The European banking shares index .SX7P gained 1.1 percent, and an index of Greek banks .FTATBNK surged 13.5 percent after the vote, which had sparked widespread rioting in Athens. The euro gained 0.15 percent against the dollar.

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(Reuters) - Europe gave Greece until Wednesday to convince skeptical international creditors that it would stick to the punishing terms of a multi-billion-euro rescue package, endorsed by parliament as rioters torched downtown Athens. Lawmakers backed drastic cuts in wages, pensions and jobs on Sunday as the price of a 130 billion euro ($170 billion) bailout by the European Union and International Monetary Fund to avert a messy default that would send shockwaves through the euro zone.

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(Reuters) - Trying to forecast world oil demand growth is a tricky job at the best of times. This year abnormal levels of uncertainty about the global economy are making the job even more difficult. Leading energy demand forecasting agencies last week were divided on whether the prospects for demand growth are improving or deteriorating.

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(Reuters) - AmerisourceBergen Corp (ABC.N) said on Monday its Chief Financial Officer Michael DiCandilo had resigned to pursue other interests, effective immediately, sparking at least one broker downgrade and sending its shares down more than 3 percent. The nation's third-largest drug wholesaler said that Tim Guttman, AmerisourceBergen's corporate controller since 2002, will become acting CFO immediately.

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(Reuters) - If the World Bank is correct, 2012 will see the second slowest year of global economic growth in a decade, at a level consistent with a world recession that, like the 2008/2009 financial crisis, would not spare Asia. Its sister organization, the International Monetary Fund, warns that economic expansion in China could be slashed in half this year if Europe's debt debacle worsens -- grim news given that China adds more to global growth than any other economy.

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(Reuters) - Stocks fell on Friday, putting the S&P 500 on pace for its first weekly decline in the past six, after another snag in negotiations for a financial bailout package for Greece. All 10 S&P sectors were negative and the S&P 500 energy, financials and materials sectors were each down about 1 percent. The CBOE Volatility index .VIX, often referred to as Wall Street's "fear index," jumped 11 percent, its biggest percentage gain in three months.

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(Reuters) - Striking Greek workers denounced a new wave of austerity on Friday as an imposition too far by Europe and the IMF. Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos told the nation it faced a stark choice between sacrifices inside the euro area and bigger sacrifices outside. Police fired teargas at black-masked protesters who threw petrol bombs, stones and bottles in central Athens at the start of a 48-hour general strike against planned pay and job cuts. But street protests were relatively small and mostly peaceful.

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(Reuters) - Concerns about weak incomes weighed on consumer confidence in early February, but rising optimism over the jobs market should help to support spending and the broader economy. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan overall index of consumer sentiment was 72.5 in early February, data showed on Friday, down from 75.0 in January and below the reading of 74.5 expected in a Reuters poll of economists.

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(Reuters) - Massachusetts securities regulators said on Friday that they were subpoenaing Bank of America for documents to determine if the lender knowingly overvalued assets in certain investment products. Local investors lost about $150 million in investment vehicles structured by Banc of America Securities LLC, said William Galvin, the state's top securities regulator.

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(Reuters) - A California-based hedge fund manager was charged on Friday with making $900,000 illegally on inside information about three technology companies, the latest strand of the high-profile Galleon Group cases brought by the U.S. government against money managers and traders. The indictment unveiled in Manhattan federal court charges Doug Whitman of Whitman Capital of obtaining information on Google Inc and Polycom Inc from trader Roomy Khan, a one-time associate of Raj Rajaratnam, the Galleon hedge fund founder. Rajaratnam was convicted in a high-profile trial last May.

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