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Eurozone crisis live: Euro ministers reject Greek debt deal
• Finance ministers insisted that Greece’s creditors must accept lower interest rates on new bonds• Juncker: Greek programme is off track• Today’s agenda7.47am: Here’s today’s agenda:• Manufacturing and services PMIs for January for France, Germany and the eurozone – 8am-9am GMT• UK public finances for December – 9.30am GMT• IMF publishes its latest World Economic Outlook report: 3pm GMTEuropean bond auctions:Netherlands bond auction – 9am GMTSpain bill auction – 9.30am GMTMalta bill auction – 10am GMT+ US Federal Open Market Committee starts two-day meeting7.42am: Here’s a round-up of how the eurozone finance minister’s decision has been reported overnight. Reuterswarned that the disagreement “increases the risk that it will prove impossible to strike a voluntary restructuring deal between Greece’s creditors and the Greek government”, adding:Negotiations over what’s called ‘private sector involvement’ (PSI) have been going on for nearly seven months without a concrete breakthrough.