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The House Ways and Means Committee may approve a sub-Saharan Africa free-trade bill when it votes ne

With Brazil's flag airline under their belt, two global information technology giants are hoping to

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S. KOREA'S KEPCO SEENCUTTING OIL DEPENDENCYSINGAPORE - The current 10-year program to build

British Agriculture Minister Jack Cunningham announced an initiative on Thursday to get the European

As of Oct. 2, 1997Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from sup

SHIPSPROTEST IS HALTED AFTERNOL SHIP IS REBUFFEDOAKLAND, Calif. - Pickets pr

Argentina and Canada have dropped trade barriers to each other's pork and beef, part of a series of

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

986 (Oct. 2, 1997) Previous day - 986The Baltic Exchange in London on Tuesdays and Thursdays

WILLIS CORROON CORP.The U.S. insurance brokerage arm of London broker Willis Corroon Group p

Sweden's second-largest banking group, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, said it wants to buy all the s

MOODY'S SAYS LLOYD'SFACES CREDIT CHALLENGESLONDON - Moody's Investors Service warned that wh

Ready on the set. Five, four, three, two. . . . ''Welcome to the Insurance Broadcast System.''

The House bill allowing banks, insurance companies and securities firms into each others' businesses

While changing wind patterns are again helping to clear the choking haze lingering over much of Sout

The European Union is poised to escalate a shipbuilding subsidy war with the United States, Japan an

The Mexican government will split the airport system into four regional groupings for privatization,

Maryland has become the first state to officially endorse the purchase of Conrail Inc. by CSX Corp.

The nation's largest shipping lines, the Big Three automakers, famous-name retailers and agriculture

In the general atmosphere of consolidation in the industry, buying or merging with insurance compani

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

Wednesday, Oct. 1, 1997Percentages Per Year INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The U.S. dollar rose Wednesday following weak economic reports in Germany and Japan.German A

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Finally, after months of warning, the Bank of Canada raised its key bank rate by 25 basis points to

SAN JOSE SURPASSESNEW YORK IN EXPORTSWASHINGTON - San Jose, Calif., is now the nation's bigg

Comments by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad sent the Malaysian ringgit and Indonesian rupi

Union Pacific Railroad is taking the unprecedented step of handing over thousands of shipments to it

The United States backtracked Wednesday on its broad sanctions against India for its suspected missi

The reported discovery last week of the E. coli bacteria in U.S. beef has Korean consumers reluctant

The top environmental official for former British Prime Minister John Major Wednesday blasted the Cl

FLORIDA MISSION TOVISIT 3 ASIAN NATIONSMIAMI - Florida's Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles will

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As the Clinton administration wrestles with nominating an ambassador to Mexico, the Mexican governme

'A lot of people went into China with the expectation that they would build really big projects and

The AFL-CIO and a coalition of religious and human rights groups announced Wednesday a national camp

Oil giant Elf Aquitaine on Wednesday confirmed it is seeking petroleum contracts with Iran and Iraq,