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President Barack Obama met with Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner on Sunday at the White House to negotiate over the fiscal cliff, according to White House officials and a congressional aide. The two sides declined to provide further details about the unannounced meeting. Obama and Boehner aides used the same language to describe it. “This afternoon, the president and Speaker Boehner met at the White House to discuss efforts to resolve the fiscal cliff. We’re not reading out details of the conversation, but the lines of communication remain open,” aides to both men wrote in separate emails. (Reporting by Jeff Mason; Editing by Stacey Joyce)

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke will speak Sunday afternoon at a Tokyo seminar on the global financial system, the central bank announced Friday. The seminar, “Challenges of the Global Financial System: Risks and Governance under Evolving Globalization,” is sponsored by the Bank of Japan and the International Monetary Fund. His remarks will be available at 12:20 a.m. Eastern on Sunday.

Nigerians have taken to the streets to demand the return of fuel subsidies in Africa’s most populous nation NEW: Oil labor unions will not shut down crude output as planned, union sources say The national strike started last week in response to a government move…

French President Nicolas Sarkozy says France must have the courage and calmness to make difficult decisions to overcome the financial crisis, in his first public appearance since the country’s credit rating was downgraded. But Sarkozy avoided any mention Sunday of the loss of…