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Presents world news briefs relating to business and finance. Growth of Japan's merchandise trade surplus; Rise in profits for Santander Central Hispano, the largest bank in Spain; Corporate turnaround specialist that was hired by the Brazilian unit of Parmalat to help overhaul its money-losing operations; Others.

Reports global business developments as of December 2003. Increase of Japan's merchandise trade surplus; Decline of the jobless rate in Brazil; Approval of the shareholders to the consolidation of office towers by Canary Wharf Group PLC.

Presents world news briefs relating to business. Offer from investment company Blackstone Capital Partners to take over Celanese, a specialty chemicals maker based in Germany; Action by the Bank of Japan to lift its assessment of the economy for a fourth month, encouraged by higher personal spending; Contract between Brazil's iron ore producer Companhia Vale do Rio Doce and China's top steel maker, the Shanghai Baosteel Group Corporation; Others.

Discusses brief business news items from around the world. Australian Reserve Bank rate change due to growing consumer debt and increase in home loans; Fall in profits at the Japanese toy maker, the Bandai Company; Possible merger of Thailand's largest financing company, National Finance, with an affiliate, Thanachart Bank; Increase in Brazilian industrial output possibly signaling a recovering economy; Profits at France's largest bank, BNP Paribas; Plan that would place sanctions on a wide range of American imports in March by the European Commission.

Focuses on world business news briefs. Slowing deflation in Hong Kong; Japans' growing trade surplus and merger of two cosmetics companies; Britain's Debenhams department store chain bid raised; KLM Royal Dutch Airlines profits; Flat economic outlook in Germany; Rejection of New Zealand air alliance; Lowered base lending rate in Brazil.

Presents world news briefs relating to business and finance as of August 6, 2003. Profit for Japan's Nintendo Company, maker of the GameCube home console; Resignation of Mike Metcalf, Great Britain's Burberry Group's chief operating officer and finance head; Profit rise for Brazilian private bank Itau; Others.

Presents international business-related news as of July 9, 2003. Agreement between the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, headed by ChevronTexaco, and KalmTEK; Bonds that the German government sold in exchange for shares of Deutsche Telekom; Percentage of stake in the Nitto Denok Corporation that Hitachi Ltd. sold; Plans of Volkswagen to double manufacturing capacity in China; Increase in Brazil's industrial production; Announcement that Magna international will spin off its real estate assets as a publicly traded company to Magna shareholders; Agreement of Place Dome Inc. to buy east African Gold Mines Ltd.

Presents world news briefs relating to business and finance as of July 1, 2003. Offers for British toy retailer Hamleys; Purchase of passenger jets from the Boeing Company by Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways; Fall in Brazil's gross domestic product; Others.

Presents international business-related news for May 23, 2003. Effect of severe acute respiratory syndrome on hotels in Toronto, Ontario; Resignation of Ilan Goldfajn, a top Brazilian central bank official; Trade surplus of Japan; Economy in South Korea that shrank; Profits that fell for the Nintendo Company; Purchase of Midlands Electricity by Scottish and Southern Energy; Profits that rose for BT Group; Profits for Zurich Financial Services; Dividend that will be missed by Australia's largest wine producer and exporter, Southcorp.

Reports on world business briefs. Trade surplus which has fallen in Japan; Industrial growth which has grown in India; Australian retail company Woolworths which reports a rise in profits; Plans of the Bank of Ireland to merge with Chase de Vere Investments and MX Financial Solutions; Economic status of Cia de Bebidas das Americas, Brazil's largest coffee brewer.

Presents world news briefs related to business as of August 23, 2002. Purchase of the Kruidvat Group, a drugstore chain, by Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.; Bankruptcy of Brazilian electric utility Companhia Energética do Maranhão; Arrest of Colin Skellett, chief executive of Wessex Water, on charges of accepting a bribe; Others.

Presents business- and finance-related world news briefs, as of August 22, 2002. Decline in Brazil's unemployment rate; Fall in spending on services in Japan; Record loss for Deutsche Telecom; Others.

Presents world news briefs relating to business as of July 10, 2002. Expansion of the Coca-Cola Company into Europe through the purchase of Swiss bottled water company Valser; Plunge in shipments of Japanese mobile phones; Fall in industrial production in Brazil, Latin America's largest economy; Others.

Presents world news briefs relating to business, as of April 11, 2002. Introduction of a minicar by the Nissan Motor Company in Japan; Delay in a decision by the Czech government to sell its stake in Cesky Telecom; Drop in Danish drug maker Novo Nordisk's 2002 earnings forecasts; Rise of inflation in Brazil; Others.

Offers world news briefs relating to business as of February 27, 2002. Bailout packages by Japanese banks; Signs of an increase in German business confidence; Rise in Brazil's unemployment rate; Others

Offers world news briefs related to business as of December 27, 2001. Lower profit expectations for Brazilian paper exporter Aracruz Celulose; Hints of an economic upturn for Singapore's economy; Fall in prices for French manufacturers; Approval for a construction project overlooking the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia; Others.

Offers world business news briefs as of November 20, 2001. Comments of the Bank of Japan regarding Japan's downturn in manufacturing; Losses which were reported by the music company EMI Group of Britain; End of the strike by metal workers at Volkswagen's biggest Brazilian factory; Others.

Offers business-related world news briefs as of November 13, 2001. Drop in net income for Dutch bank ABN Amro Holding; Factors which contributed to Japan's slowed economy; Growth of Brazil's beverage company AmBev; Others.

Presents world news briefs relating to business and finance. End to the workers' strike at Volkswagen's plants in the São Paulo region of Brazil; Profit for Japanese camera maker Olympus Corporation, which was helped by sales of digital cameras; Selection of Paul Adams as chief executive of British American Tobacco, to succeed Martin Broughton; Others.

Presents worldwide news briefs relating to business as of November 13, 2002. Possible partnership between German chemicals and drug maker Bayer and a potential partner for Bayer's pharmaceutical operations; Profit for Japan's Mitsubishi Motors Corporation; End to talks concerning Brazil's Banco Itau's plan to buy Banco Sudameris Brasil from IntesaBci of Italy; Others.

Presents world news briefs relating to business as of July 18, 2002. Rise in operating profit for luxury group LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton of France; Accounting questions at Sony, Japan's largest consumer electronics maker; Cut in Brazil's interest rate by the country's central bank; Others.

Provides business-related news as of February 7, 2003. Operating license that was lost by the airline Air Lib because an investment company, IMCA, declined to invest in the airline; Profits that rose for Royal Dutch/Shell; Loss that was reported for the cruise line P&O; Acquisition of P&O by Carnival; Lawsuits that were filed against Britain and Spain regarding government control of privately held companies; Profit that was reported by a Japanese trading firm, the Mitsubishi Corporation; Losses for the banking company UFJ Holdings; Sales targets that will not be reached by NTT DoCoMo; Plan of Telecom to budget money for new equipment for wireless networks; Earnings of Korean Air; Rise of industrial output in Brazil; Strikes that ended at Grupo Mexico, a copper mining company.

Presents world news briefs relating to business and finance as of December 10, 2002. Resignation of Argentina's central bank president, Aldo Pignanelli; Rise in Brazil's industrial production, helped by booming seel and automobile exports; Bidding war for steel concern NatSteel in Singapore; Others.

Presents world news briefs relating to business as of November 21, 2002. Criticism of the Russian government by foreign investors; Revised strategy of German drug maker Bayer; Decision of Brazil's central bank to raise its benchmark interest rate; Others.

Presents world news briefs relating to business and finance as of November 12, 2002. Job cuts at Milan, Italy-based communications and tire company Pirelli; Profit for Brazilian drinks company Companhia de Bebidas das Américas, or AmBev; Rise in machinery orders in Japan; Others.

Presents news briefs related to world business as of November 22, 2001. Increase in profit for Swisscom; Contract won by Samsung Engineering to build a gas separation plant in southern Thailand, part of a project which faces local opposition; Walkout staged by Central Bank workers in Brazil who are demanding a raise; Others.

Presents news briefs related to world business as of October 11, 2001. Drop in Brazil's inflation rate; Layoffs and reduction in third-quarter profit forecast announced by the Canadian commercial printer Quebecor World; Surge in the price of shares in Starbucks Coffee Japan on the first day of trading; Others.