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Strong consumer spending helps to drive Japan's economy at the end of 2006, figures show.

DaimlerChrysler says it is to cut 13,000 jobs at its loss-making US unit Chrysler, closing one plant in Delaware.
Three state-run Indian banks raise lending rates as inflationary pressures in the economy grow.

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