Seeking to calm a whirlwind of uncertainty that has battered global markets, opened deep fissures in European unity and threatened to push Greece out of the eurozone, European leaders insisted on Monday that a deal was still possible to settle Greece ’s spiraling debt crisis . But they gave no indication that this could happen before Athens runs out of cash to pay loans due on Tuesday. With only a day left before Greece’s current bailout package expires and the deadline arrives for a loan repayment of about $1.8 billion, alarm that it might miss the payment and eventually crash out of the group of 19 countries that use the euro prompted a flurry of statements from Brussels and major European leaders. They mixed reassurance and rebukes directed at Greece’s left-wing government with grave warnings that Europe’s future was at stake. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Europe’s […]