PR-inside.com) KUWAIT CITY (AP) - Kuwait's government on Sunday scrapped a $17.4 billion joint venture with U.S. petrochemical giant Dow Chemical after criticism from lawmakers that could have led to a political crisis in this small oil-rich state.The Cabinet, in

PR-inside.com) LONDON (AP) - British children's clothing retailer Adams has taken a step toward filing for bankruptcy protection.British media reports Sunday said the 75-year-old company submitted court papers last week indicating it planned to appoint administrators.That is a preliminary step

PR-inside.com) The euro celebrates its 10th anniversary on Jan. 1. Here are key dates_ 1970: The Werner Report, named for Luxembourg's joint prime minister and finance minister at the time, outlines a plan for a European monetary union._ 1978: The

PR-inside.com) CHICAGO (AP) - A little more than a century ago, Chicago boasted 11 daily English-language newspapers.The fierce competition among them, immortalized in the 1928 play The Front Page, even turned bloody at times, and that drive to outdo one

PR-inside.com) NEW YORK (AP) - Investors are preparing to close out the last three trading days of 2008 with Wall Street's worst performance since Herbert Hoover was president.The ongoing recession and global economic shock pummeled stocks this year, with the

PR-inside.com) HALF MOON BAY, California (AP) - An unusually weak Dungeness crab harvest is compounding the financial woes of West Coast fishermen who were already struggling with depressed consumer demand and the unprecedented collapse of the Pacific chinook salmon fishery.Commercial

PR-inside.com) NEW YORK (AP) - Investors are preparing to close out the last three trading days of 2008, a year in which Wall Street has logged its worst performance since Herbert Hoover was president.The ongoing recession and global economic shock

PR-inside.com) TOKYO (AP) - Japan's No. 2 non-life insurer, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group Holdings Inc., is in merger talks with two smaller rivals to create the country's largest non-life insurer, reports said Monday.The merger talks come as sales of auto

PR-inside.com) FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Ten years ago, Europe launched its grand experiment with a shared currency _ and watched it plunge in value before recovering.As the anniversary approaches of the Jan. 1, 1999, arrival of the euro, economists say

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