(Reuters) - Europe's banks will have to achieve a significantly stronger capital position under a quick-fire regulatory health check and may need to raise some 100 billion euros ($137 billion), banking and regulatory sources said on Tuesday. The European Banking Authority (EBA) wants banks to hold a minimum core Tier One ratio of 7 percent under a recession scenario, and those who fail will be asked to bolster their capital position, two banking sources told Reuters.

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(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) will likely record a loss in the third quarter, only the second quarterly loss in the Wall Street titan's history, hurt by weakness across trading and investment banking, equity market declines and wider credit spreads during the period, Citigroup said. Citigroup analysts Keith Horowitz and Craig Singer, in a note titled "Taking One Last Whack to 3Q Ests," said they now expect Goldman to post a loss of 65 cents a share, compared with their prior estimates of a profit of 10 cents per share.

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(Reuters) - Greece should receive a vital lifeline next month in order to avoid bankruptcy, its international lenders said on Tuesday, buying time in a debt crisis that Europe's top central banker labeled "systemic." After a weeks-long review of the country's finances, inspectors from the European Union, IMF and European Central Bank said an 8 billion euros loan tranche should be paid in early November after approval by euro zone finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund.

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(Reuters) - Regulators Tuesday are set to give nervous insurance companies, mutual funds and other big players in financial markets a better idea of whether they will be tapped for the same type of additional government scrutiny facing large U.S. banks. None of these industries are eager to be on the receiving end of the added attention that comes with being named "systemic" and have spent the past year lobbying to be ignored.

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(Reuters) - Stocks rallied on Monday as investor sentiment was buoyed by a pledge by German and French leaders to tackle the euro zone debt crisis. The S&P 500 topped a key technical level for the first time in more than two months in what could be a bullish signal.

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(Reuters) - Europe's banks expect to be told to raise more capital under a Franco-German effort to solve the euro zone debt crisis after the state rescue of Franco-Belgian lender Dexia. Dexia agreed early on Monday to the nationalization of its Belgian retail bank and secured 90 billion euros ($121 billion) in state guarantees in a rescue that highlighted the need for other euro zone countries to strengthen their banks.

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(Reuters) - The European Commission will exclude the over-the-counter derivatives market from its antitrust review of Deutsche Boerse's (DB1Gne.DE) takeover of NYSE Euronext (NYX.N), undermining a key rationale to gain approval for the deal, three people familiar with the matter said on Monday. Two sources familiar with Deutsche Boerse's thinking said the European Union's antitrust body signaled it would only look at the market for derivatives traded on an exchange as it assesses the impact of the tie-up.

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(Reuters) - Greece said it concluded talks with international lenders over a vital aid payment on Monday after Germany and France gave investors hope by promising a plan to recapitalize Europe's banks soon. Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Nicolas Sarkozy gave no details of their proposals, to be delivered by the end of the month, but said they would also cover closer euro zone integration and steps to tackle Greece's debt mountain and prevent financial market contagion.

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(Reuters) - Netflix Inc Chief Executive Reed Hastings reversed an unpopular decision to separate his company's DVD rental business and online video streaming service, sending the stock up 7 percent in early trading. U.S. customers will continue to go to Netflix.com for streaming and DVD-by-mail rentals, as the company has dropped plans to move its DVD rentals to a separate business called Qwikster, Hastings announced in a short statement on the company blog on Monday.

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(Reuters) - The Nasdaq fell over 1 percent on Friday as stocks struggled to make headway following a three-day market rally, even after a report showed the U.S. economy added more jobs than expected in September. The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI gained 35.19 points, or 0.32 percent, to 11,158.52. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX dropped 2.72 points, or 0.23 percent, to 1,162.25. The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC dropped 22.53 points, or 0.90 percent, to 2,484.29.

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