Crisis impact spreads
(Reuters)
<p><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20081229/2008_12_29t114312_450x304_us_financial.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=3lk5vgE_iKxygq5YR1iYTQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="A man sits next to a pillar of a building at a financial district in Tokyo December 16, 2008. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)" border="0" /> (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081229/bs_nm/us_financial)Reuters - The global financial crisis scuppered a $17 billion petrochemicals joint venture and drove three Japanese insurers into merger talks, while data from Europe showed the region's economies face a bleak 2009.</p><br clear="all"/>
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