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A coalition of unions withdrew their charge that South Korean color television manufacturers were tr

Just as two other big utility deals were falling apart, the country's third-largest power company sa

NO-NUKES ACTIVISTSPROTEST PLUTONIUM SHIPBONN - Anti-nuclear activists early Monday chained t

Panama Canal authorities are warning shipowners that beginning in February there may be capacity res

Mariners are a tradition-bound group and view certain nautical items as unchanging. This tradition,

Germany's shipbuilding industry is likely to suffer a fall in production of about 5 percent in 1998

The leads are classified and listed by their Harmonized System (HS) codes. U.S. firms should note th

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The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by Reuter Money Service, are selling rates among

The U.S. dollar drifted lower in desultory trading Tuesday amid a downward revision to U.S. third-qu

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Jan. 10 - Dec. 23, 1997 (a graph)* Annua

You've seen the IBM commercials on television: Three people sitting around doing nothing, asking eac

NORTH AMERICAGift & Home Furnishings. Jan. 7-15, 1998. Atlanta. Contact: Daniel McKinnon, (4

The Hexagon financial services system can be installed in your own office, giving you in effect an e

Truck driver Richard Crawford rose from his pew in the rear of the chapel and asked nervously as he

Dec. 23, 1997Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

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

'It is a real crisis . . . worse than I thought. Just like a man heaving his last breath, the situat

They say it's an ill wind, and Taiwan is hoping the economic gale buffeting South Korea will help ge

A company planning a high-speed container service on the Atlantic is submitting its final ship desig

For a market that buys between $5 billion to $6 billion a year of U.S. machinery and transport equip

Middle EastJORDANThe Jordanian government has cut customs duties on 46 goods mainly

A Colorado-based firm won permission to set up a $275 million fuel conversion project in Trinidad an

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1236 (Dec. 23, 1997) Previous day - 1244The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

Philippine Airlines, struggling to find its financial footing, said it hopes to expand services to N

California's long-awaited energy deregulation will be delayed from its scheduled Jan. 1 start becaus

Tuesday Dec. 23, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

Dec. 23, 1997U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

SEDGWICK GROUP BUYSDUTCH BENEFITS BUSINESSLONDON - One day after announcing it had bought De

TRAVELERS GROUPLarry Weissman was named a managing director of the New York company's Smith

KEOKUK, Iowa - Business leaders in southeast Iowa say establishing the state's first port authority

FROM THE UNITED STATES / CANADAISRAEL. January 1998. The government of Israel is organizing

KEEFE, BRUYETTE & WOODS INCJames McDermott was elected chairman and chief executive of the W

As of Dec. 23, 1997Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

The inspiration for this column was an incident last month at a seminar in Las Vegas. A forwarder di

Cylink Corp. said it was the first hardware vendor to win U.S. Department of Commerce approval to ex

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Despite the currency turmoil in Asia, two air carriers Tuesday announced new freighter flights betwe

A glut of excess production capacity may induce automobile manufacturers to call for protectionist m