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(Bloomberg) -- European stocks were little changed near a seven-year high, paring earlier losses. Greek shares fell on skepticism that a debt agreement...

Japanese carmaker Honda Motor Co Ltd (7267.T) plans to slow production at some of its plants in North America due to a parts shortage caused by a partial shutdown of ports along the West Coast.

A friend of mine from Moscow has a nice way of describing how her fellow citizens view the war in Ukraine. She calls it a “contest between the television and the refrigerator”. The television stirs Russian spirits with a story about a great patriotic struggle against a “fascist” Ukraine and a scheming west. But the refrigerator lowers the spirits, with its increasingly sparse and costly contents. The contest between the refrigerator and the television can now be gauged in opinion surveys. A recent poll shows that 44 per cent of Russians see America as the enemy — up from 4 per cent before the conflict started. But another poll suggests only 19 per cent believe that Ukraine should be part of Russia — compared with about 50 per cent who endorsed that idea last March. The battle for Russian minds will resume if and when the war in Ukraine restarts in earnest. That may happen soon.

Alibaba won’t be paying Lunar New Year bonuses this year in the latest piece of bad news for the company.