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Belgium's Interbrew CA and Venezuela's Cisneros Group have broken off a proposed $2 billion venture

Under fire from rail labor unions and facing a continuing U.S. investigation of his outside business

China has raised value-added tax rebates from 9.0 percent to 11.0 percent on several exported produc

After 18 years of making missile shipping containers for the federal government, Tim Graves ran into

Qualcomm Inc., having offered products to large fleets for years, is now targeting its communication

Coors Ceramics Co. plans to close a plant in Tennessee and relocate the operation to Colorado.

CANADA GRANTS CREDIT TOMEXICAN MINE OPERATIONOTTAWA - Canada is granting a US$75 million lin

Japanese testing requirements for farm commodity imports violate World Trade Organization rules, U.S

Federal Express Corp. is giving shippers another option to speed the delivery of their overseas ship

Weeks of disastrous flooding along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River will generate huge damage

BARWIL AGENCIES (NA) INC.Oystein Pedersen was appointed vice president of this division of W

Four leaders in biotechnology have committed $147 million to build the world's largest center for pl

ATLAS AIR TO GET20TH BOEING FREIGHTERGOLDEN, Colo. - Atlas Air Inc. announced the acquisitio

The New York foreign exchange rates below are selling rates among trading banks of $1 million and mo

Leonard Howard, a former financial editor of The Journal of Commerce and a partner in the investment

Aug. 12, 1998RESELLER RACK UNLEADED MID- PREMIUM-UNLE

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NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP.Kathryn B. McQuade was named vice president for financial planning in

The thing I love the most about the Internet is the dizzying speed at which the conventional wisdom

For the third time in a week, the Port of Santos - Latin America's busiest waterfront - has been hit

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(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Sept. 26, 1997 - Aug. 12, 1998 (a graph)

As of August 12,1998Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

A major Honduran business association said it has asked the government to ban a U.S. labor activist

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,500-$1,600 per ton lo

OFFERS TO BUY* MINERAL WATER EQUIPMENT. We would like to get information and prices on equip

CNA and Coface S.A. have formed a company, Worldwide Credit Managers LLC, that specializes in the ma

ST. PAUL COS.John Berger, president of F&G Re and head of the combined North American treaty

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780 (August 12, 1998) Previous day - 783The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

Aug. 12, 1998No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 24

The Port of Le Havre is expected to get the go-ahead from the French government shortly to begin wor

A nontraditional export to a market that generally does not import the product has resulted in the U

August 12, 1998Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represen

MINERS LIFT BLOCKADEAFTER PAY PROMISEDMOSCOW - Russian coal miners Wednesday lifted a three-

Recent steep declines in U.S. agricultural exports are largely caused by fundamental problems, some

The acute shortage of empty shipping containers that is causing headaches along the Pacific Rim appe

During the first week of October, Cosco Container Lines, Yangming Marine Transport Corp. and Kawasak

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 202.90 off 3.16 w

Amoco Corp.'s Canadian unit, which dominates several aspects of the country's energy industry, expec