BELGRADE, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Serbia is shoring up its crude oil and fuel reserves as the country presses on with talks with the United States and Russia to avoid U.S. sanctions on its oil company NIS, energy minister Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic said on Wednesday. Gazprom Neft and Gazprom hold stakes of 50% and 6.15% respectively in NIS, which operates...

Feb 26 (Reuters) - China plans to inject at least 400 billion yuan ($55.13 billion) into the first batch of banks including Agricultural Bank of China and Bank of Communications, as it plans to start re-capitalizing several of its biggest banks in coming months, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. ($1 = 7.2555 Chinese yuan) (Reporting by Rajveer Singh Pardesi in...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Itochu has decided not to participate in a buyout for Seven & i Holdings ( SVNDF ) put forward by the retailer's founding family, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Wednesday. After receiving a takeover bid from Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard last year, Seven & i's ( SVNDF ) founding Ito family started talks to take the company...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Iron ore futures prices weakened for a third consecutive session on Wednesday, weighed down by dour outlook for Chinese steel exports and heightened trade tensions between the U.S. and top consumer China.     The most-traded May iron ore contract on China's Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) closed 0.98% lower to finish at 812 yuan ($111.86) a metric ton. Earlier in...