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British officials said they believed that financial professionals passed inside information to traders, who made significant profits as a result.

Lee Kun-hee, whose father founded Samsung in 1938, headed the company for more than two decades until he stepped down in April 2008 amid scandal.

BG Group said that it will supply China National Offshore Oil Corp. liquefied natural gas for the next 20 years, while selling the state-run company a small stake in BG’s Australian coal bed gas assets.

The report, along with a bleak report on existing home sales this week, dimmed hopes for a fast housing recovery.

The executives have been questioned on suspicion of bribery, corruption, money laundering and false accounting, officials said.

Genzyme, the drug maker, is facing enforcement action, including a fine, for problems at its plant in Boston.

A Google director said that censorship had become more than a human rights issue and was hurting profit.

The New York Times Company has settled a claim by leaders of Singapore’s government that they were smeared by an Op-Ed piece in The International Herald Tribune.

The government also moved to address the country’s postal banking system, a significant player in the economy.

The recall involves a million Infantino “SlingRider” and “Wendy Bellissimo” slings in the United States and 15,000 in Canada.

The European Commission said such a system would require the United States to contribute information on American citizens' transactions.

Google’s China operations came under pressure as some content from its uncensored Hong Kong site was blocked.

Post-Google, China’s Internet market could increasingly resemble a lucrative, walled-off bazaar, experts say.

China’s intransigence on the flow of information could harm its links to the global economy and sully its image.

European stocks and the euro fell after Portugal’s debt was downgraded by Fitch Ratings, turning up pressure on government leaders to come up with a solution to the euro area’s financial woes.

A verdict is expected within a month in the case involving four employees of the mining group who were charged with bribery and stealing commercial secrets.

The health care bill is the government’s biggest attack on economic inequality since it began rising in the 1970s.

Shares, which had meandered for much of the day, began to turn higher as the session neared a close.

The volume of sales is slumping, putting new pressure on home prices.

The European Union’s highest court gave Google broad latitude to sell advertising linked to trademarks on its search engine.