Greece’s finance minister Evangelos Venizelos had said that negotiations would continue on Saturday after a four-and-a-half hour meeting with officials broke up in the early hours of the morning. But at lunchtime on Saturday, there were reports that representatives of Greece's private creditors had left Athens unexpectedly without a deal on the debt swap plan that is vital to avert a disorderly default. Charles Dallara, managing director of the Institute of International Finance, a Washington-based lobby group representing creditors negotiating with the government, was said to have flown to Paris. Jean Lemierre, ... (full story)