Finance Leaders Vow to Keep Greece in Line

The G7 vowed to ensure that Greece would fulfill its financial obligations in the wake of a global stock-market rout last week attributed largely to fears over how that nation's economic problems would affect the EU and its common currency, the euro. At the weekend's summit in Canada, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said he was confident that Greece, which has been hit by the budget-deficit crisis, would meet tough new belt-tightening targets.