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| 1994 |
| | | A devaluation of the Mexican peso leads to a sudden collapse in the local stock market | |
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| 1996 |
| | | Microsoft founder Bill Gates, with a fortune of $20 billion, is calculated to be the richest man in the world | |
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| 1998 |
| | | A sudden collapse of the Brazilian stock market follows the earlier slump in the Asian markets | |
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| 1999 |
| | | Eleven of the nations in the European Union adopt the euro as a shared single currency | |
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| 2000 |
| | | The republic of Ireland is the fastest growing economy in the EU, with a GDP growth of more than 10% | |
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| 2001 |
| | | The giant Texas energy company Enron files for bankruptcy after disclosure of major accountancy fraud | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Five presidents succeed each other within a month in Argentina's economic crisis | |
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| 2004 |
| | | Ten new member states (Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Czech republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungrary, Malta, Cyprus) join the European Union | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Google pays $1.65 billion for the website YouTube, launched less than two years previously | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union, bringing the number of member states to twenty-seven | |
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