Danes tilt towards euro, says opinion poll
More Danes would vote in favour of joining the European Union's single currency than against, according to the daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

Top Yeltsin aide calls for emergency measures
A top aide of President Boris Yeltsin has demanded ``emergency measures'' to save Russia from falling from the brink.

Japanese trade surplus swells 40%
Japan's trade surplus jumped 40 per cent to a record high of 13.99 trillion yen ($122.72 billion) in 1998 and posted an unexpectedly large 14.4 per cent rise in December as the weak domestic economy caused imports to slump.

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