Stock Average of 225 companies ended 1.0% lower at 10744.03, South Korea's Kospi dropped 0.5%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index gave up 0.3%, China's Shanghai Composite slipped 0.1% after a choppy session and India's Sensex gave up 0.2% in afternoon trading. Full Article at MarketWatch

S&P 500 futures fell 1.2 points to 1,159.80 and Nasdaq 100 futures slipped 2 points to 1,932.00. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 2 points. The low-volume rally continued Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 47 points... Full Article at MarketWatch

TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Japanese government bonds fell Thursday to multi-week lows on renewed issuance concerns and the growing view that the country's central bank may be on hold for the next few months, suggesting no new liquidity to support JGBs. read... Full Article at Nikkei

Central government current spending rose 15% from a year earlier, the largest rise since April 2006. The ONS reported that in February, public sector net debt stood at 60.3% of gross domestic product, its highest level on record and up from 50.5% a... Full Article at Wall Street Journal

SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)--Most Asian markets declined Thursday, with Japanese exporters dragged lower as the euro weakened against the yen following a report that Greece may seek financial help from the International Monetary Fund. read full article... ... Full Article at Nikkei

CANBERRA -(Dow Jones)- In a thinly-veiled threat to Beijing, Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Thursday warned that the world will be watching when four executives of Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Ltd. (RIO.AU) are brought to trial M Full Article at FOX Business

LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS) expects that by 2013, the U.K. government will have sold or at least begun to sell its shares at a profit, it said in its annual report released Thursday. RBS, which is 84%-state owned, al Full Article at FOX Business

BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- High interest rates are wiping out the steps Greece is taking to reduce its debt levels, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said Thursday. Speaking at the European Parliament, the prime minister said he has spoken to the Full Article at FOX Business

BANGKOK -(Dow Jones)- Thailand's Board of Investment said Thursday it has relaunched five tax incentives that expired last year in an effort to spur investment in sustainable development areas such as energy conservation, alternative energy and high Full Article at FOX Business