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South Africa has foreign and domestic drug companies howling about violations of patent laws and wor

Allegheny Power System Inc. will pay a local energy company $15 million to scrap plans to build a ne

INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM EXCHANGEAug. 29, 1997 *Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

'We are fed up with fraud.'

JAPAN'S JULY VEHICLEEXPORTS ROSE 32.3 PERCENTTOKYO - Japan's motor vehicle exports in July s

India's exporters are cheering after the central bank allowed the rupee to depreciate against the U.

NEW JERSEY WANTS COURTTO RULE FIRM INSOLVENTTRENTON, N.J. - Insurance Commissioner Elizabeth

Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said on Friday there was no doubt Cambodia would join the Ass

Offers to buy* SATELLITE RECEIVER GI310D. Contact: Xiaojing Zhu, Shenzhen Holdluck Electroni

Norway's Federation of Offshore Workers union has no plans to resume talks with the Norwegian Shipow

To hear government officials tell it, the late-summer fields are bumper-full of grain, and Russia is

BETHLEHEM STEEL TO SELLSHIPYARD TO VERITASBALTIMORE - Bethlehem Steel Corp. agreed to sell i

The California Supreme Court last week issued a ruling that makes it easier for fired workers to sue

Across backyard fences, over late lunches and in boardrooms last week, word of Fidel Castro's death

Shareholders of APL Ltd. have approved a merger agreement between American President Lines and Neptu

The economic tremors from an earthquake go on long after the actual event, and the financial losses

DUPONT STARTS WORK ONLYCRA PLANT IN SINGAPORESINGAPORE - E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilm

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

The problems faced by Hudson Foods aren't likely to help the agriculture secretary's quest to gain m

Thursday Aug. 28, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

Aug. 28, 1997U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Sept. 13, 1996 - Aug. 28, 1997 (a graph)

NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE - AUG. 27, 1997Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High L

Australian Resources and Energy Minister Warwick Parer urged Asia-Pacific nations to ensure bottlene

JULY OUTPUT FOR PEMEXAT 23-MONTH LOWMEXICO CITY - Petroleos Mexicanos said its gasoline prod

Only table.

The Hong Kong money market experienced frenzied, volatile trade Thursday as interbank interest rates

The availability of permits for zinc exports has tightened further as China National Nonferrous Meta

Bigger export and inventory figures have forced the Commerce Department to scrap its initial assessm

A 1995 business trip to Cuba has cost the Jacksonville Port Authority a $20,000 federal fine.

Nuclear-generated electricity was in its infancy 35 years ago when the Big Rock Point station produc

CHINA URGES PANAMATO DISINVITE TAIWANBEIJING - China on Thursday urged Panama to rescind an

Germany's exports to the countries of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1997 are likely to

SHIPSWALLENIUS LINES ADDSAUTO CARRIAGE CAPACITYSTOCKHOLM - Wallenius Lines o

A region that has largely defied Boris Yeltsin's economic reforms has produced the highest living st

A potentially explosive situation is at hand at the Port of Los Angeles as the operators of a coal e

Russia, in search of badly needed investment funds to help restructure its economy, expects to raise

OFFERS TO BUY* POTASSIUM CHLORIDES (KCL). Purity: 96 percent. H2O: 2 percent. Water insolubl

Hong Kong, already the main conduit for Chinese firms to seek stock market listings, is going after

Lufthansa AG, Germany's national airline, tripled pretax profit to an all-time high in the first hal