Overall the country created a total of 1

The stock market and national currency had been soaringearlier in the year until the effects of the credit crisisstruck. Overall, the country created a total of 1.45 millionjobs in 2008. Consumer credit is marketed widely in Brazil, but hasbecome harder to find in the last few months, particularly formore expensive purchases. (Reporting by Fernando Exman; Writing by Peter Murphy; editingby Gary Crosse) Bonds.

The sharp economic downturn has battered Japan's aluminiumindustry as automakers, a major consumer of the metal,successively cut production due to poor demand. The Nikkei said that Furukawa, the top aluminium millproducts maker, and Showa Denko, the sixth-largest, were aimingto reach an agreement in the summer. The daily said that if the two businesses were merged, itwould create a firm with a domestic market share of over 20percent, far surpassing that of No 2 firm Sumitomo Light MetalIndustries Ltd (5738.T) (Reporting by Miho Yoshikawa). TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ Ferrari is pleased to announce theopening of its new dealership in Florida: Ferrari of Tampa Bay.(Photo: http:// )(Photo: http:// )The 27 thousand square feet new facility, made possible by an investmentof $9 million, is the first in North America carrying Ferrari cars only.This important opening represents the pinnacle of a larger investment thatFerrari has been undertaking in Florida.In recent months Ferrari of Central Florida, the Orlando dealership, hasundergone an important restructuring; so has The Collection, the Ferraridealership in Miami.Ferrari of Fort Lauderdale is about to complete a multi-million dollarrenovation, and the opening of a brand new dealership in West Palm Beach isexpected by year-end.Florida is the third largest market for Ferrari North America, accountingfor more than 12 of its sales in 2008.Ferrari North America, with 36 dealerships in the US, 4 in Canada and 9 inCentral and South America, wants to offer to its customers an environmentsimilar to the one they would have by visiting the ever-renovating Ferrarifactory in Maranello.Following this philosophy, Ferrari North America's dealer network hasinvested in the past two years $70 million in new facilities, as well as inrenovating the existing ones.SOURCEFerrari North AmericaFerrari Media, 1-201-816-3229. Higher operating costs and income tax, lower foreignexchange gains and reduced prices also squeezed earnings lastyear, Foxconn (2038.HK), a unit of Taiwan's Hon Hai Group, saidin a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange late Monday (Reporting by Jun Ebias; Editing by Jonathan Hopfner). SEOUL (Reuters) - More than 40 people are believed to be trapped inside a building in Seoul that was engulfed in flames in a standoff between police and residents protesting demolition in the area, a Reuters witness said on Tuesday.

WorldAt least one person was taken out of the building and is believed dead, according to the Reuters eyewitness. Two were led away by emergency officials and believed to have been taken to hospital.Police commandos were moving into the building to search for people inside and evacuate those who had managed to avoid the blaze and were on the rooftop chanting protest slogans, the witness said.Dozens of tenants of the largely commercial area in the middle of the South Korean capital slated for a major redevelopment project have been fighting with police and throwing Molotov cocktails since early Monday, demanding better compensation.Emergency rescue officials on the scene and reached by telephone said the situation was developing urgently but could not immediately confirm casualties.(Reporting by Lee Jae-won and Jack Kim; Editing by Jonathan Hopfner and Valerie Lee) World. MELBOURNE, Australia & MENLO PARK, Calif.(Business Wire)ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX:CXS)(NASDAQ:CXSP) announced today thatthe United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drugdesignation to omacetaxine for the treatment of Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS).Orphan drug designation is intended to support the clinical development of newdrugs in diseases affecting less than 200,000 people in the United States. TheFDA often provides technical and financial assistance to expedite and optimizedrug development and on approval, grants a seven year period of marketexclusivity.