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A proposal approved by the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission to revise its 900-Number Rule includes recommendations that will combat telephone bill cramming -- unauthorized charges on consumers' phone bills....

What: Consumers annually spend over $120 billion on home improvement projects, but are often victimized by unscrupulous or incompetent contractors. Because home improvement fraud consistently ranks as...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission and the Department of Justice today published a "Communiqué" from the first "Antitrust Summit of the Americas." Antitrust authorities from 11 of the 12 nations of the...

"Y2K? Y 2 Care" is the theme of five business and consumer publications released today by the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission as part of National Y2K Action Week, October 19-23. The week is an initiative of...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today announced that it had accepted a proposed settlement with Koninklijke Ahold nv and Giant Food Inc., which will keep supermarket prices competitive in eight...

Consent agreements given final approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final consent agreements with the following entities. The Commission action makes the consent orders...

LaFarge, Corp. has agreed to restructure its agreement to purchase certain assets of Holnam, Inc., to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that the purchase agreement violated federal antitrust...

Robert Pitofsky, Chairman of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission, said today that 18 months after adoption of new guidelines for treating efficiency claims in defense of mergers, dire predictions about the...