Spain's government will this weekend finally make a formal request for the bailout money it needs to prop up ailing banks as frustration grows about foot-dragging by prime minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative government. Finance minister Luis de Guindos, who on Thursday pledged to make the request immediately, has now told the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers that they will have it by Monday. The Eurogroup president Jean-Claude Juncker had already stated that the group expected to have the request, which de Guindos had described as "a mere formality", in its hands on Monday. Juncker said eurozone ministers ... (full story)