Joe Wiesenthal reads into a video of a Spanish bar owner yelling at cops yesterday, as anti-austerity protests turned tense.

Also: Greece. Yesterday's protests in photos.

U.S. Bancorp and PNC Financial Services are the latest banks to experience slowdowns on their consumer websites, said to be the result of cyber attacks. Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase seemed to be the focus of attacks last week.

Mergers and acquisitions have slumped to their lowest level since the third quarter of 2009, when the financial crisis stemmed dealmaking.

Hedge fund managers may be facing lower bonuses this year, as many funds failed to adequately recover from poor performances in 2011, The New York Post reports.

Banks will pay out lower bonuses, rather than cut jobs, to control costs this year, Morgan Stanley banking analyst Betsy Graseck told Bloomberg.

Nomura continues its restructuring with plans to eliminate 30 jobs in its Americas equities division, according to Bloomberg. The Japanese firm is also cutting 100 investment banking jobs in Europe as it attempts to shed $1 billion in costs under new CEO Koji Nagai.

Credit Agricole chief executive officer Jean-Paul Chifflet expects a deal to sell its Greek lender Emporiki in the next few weeks, according to Reuters. The price may be a symbolic 1 euro.

Hong Kong tycoon Cecil Chao is offering a $65 million bounty to the man who can win the heart of his lesbian daughter.

The median home price in Greenwich, Conn. fell 11 percent in the first seven months of the year, according to Bloomberg, as Wall Street cut jobs and pared compensation.

M&T Bank's deal for Hudson City Bancorp shows the Buffalo-based acquirer needs capital to meet new regulatory requirements, writes Peter Eavis in The Times.

Barclays has watched energy traders depart for other firms after the bank placed capped bonuses and limited the amount that traders can risk.

Credit Agricole hopes to reach a deal to sell its Greek unit in the next few weeks, the French lender's CEO Jean-Paul Chifflet said today. Credit Agricole said it lost 370 million euros on the Emporiki in the second quarter.

Depositors are pulling money out of Spanish banks, Reuters reports, and the Spanish recession continues to deepen.

Greece is planning special economic zones that would offer tax and administrative advantages (but which not allow business to pay lower wages).

In the U.S., meanwhile, things are such that investors are giving up on stocks and bonds and placing bets on...the Iraqi Dinar. That's old news, but The New York Post reports that a Dinar trade figures in the plot of Hollywood's Hit and Run, starring Kristen Bell.

In Hong Kong, Occupy protestors defied a court order to evacuate HSBC's headquarters. According to Bloomberg, media outnumbered protestors.

Greenlight Capital founder David Einhorn sank $15 million into a Milwaukee-based venture capital firm—the Capital Midwest Fund, managed by his brother Daniel and father Stephen.

William C. Butcher, former chairman and chief executive officer of Chase Manhattan, died at 85.