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Robert Miller with the main City and business news as many Asia markets are shut for the Chinese New Year Europe’s bourses hope for a speedy resolution of the terms for an orderly Greek sovereign debt default; the week-end attacks in Nigeria that claimed 200 lives have not yet affected the price of crude oil, despite the fact that the country is Africa’s largest crude exporter; the founder and largest shareholder in EasyJet, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, tells the Sunday Telegraph he will vote against the senior directors’ pay awards and UK dividends hit a record in 2011 and could top £75bn this year.