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The Korean government has accused the U.S. Commerce Department of improperly dragging out trade proc

EU CONSIDERS ACTIONOVER BRITISH BEEF EXPORTSBRUSSELS - The European Commission is considerin

The aftershocks of Thailand's move to float its currency, the baht, on July 2 combined with a domest

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

Teamsters at the world's largest transportation company have authorized a strike when their contract

After agreeing on major principles, Russia and Chechnya continued to haggle over the price of oil tr

Colombia's Cano-Limon crude oil pipeline is still not pumping oil after a rebel dynamite attack on T

The U.S. dollar stamped its authority over the currency markets Tuesday by piercing the psychologica

Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary Do Muoi met with China's Jiang Zemin, general secretary

Amoco Trinidad, a subsidiary of the Amoco Corp., this week will begin a $420 million, 2-year explora

General Motors Corp. rose to the top spot in Fortune magazine's list of the world's 500 biggest comp

As of July 15, 1997Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

The business community expressed concern Tuesday over potential instability as India's United Front

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

MEXICO'S SUGAR HARVESTLOOKS VERY SWEETMEXICO CITY - With reports in from 57 of Mexico's 60 s

The European Union executive body agreed Tuesday that although five Eastern European countries can b

U.S. government officials have decided to add terry towels to the list of eight other textile and ap

Tuesday July 15, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

World Bank lending in fiscal year 1997 fell to $19.1 billion, the lowest level since the mid-1980s,

CHILE ENDESA CONFIRMS$380 MILLION LOAN REVAMPSANTIAGO, Chile - Chilean power producer Endesa

The last component of a new mainline railroad linking Beijing with Hong Kong is now functioning, off

The Clinton administration Tuesday turned to the newly strengthened World Trade Organization to chal

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CHINA'S CNPC, AMOCOSIGN TRANSFER AGREEMENTHONG KONG - China National Petroleum Corp. and Amo

British and Argentine officials began three days of talks in Buenos Aires Monday on oil exploration

The Teamsters union may be about to get a taste of its own strike medicine.A union that repr

Australian Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith said Tuesday that work practices in the nation's

Hyundai Merchant Marine is close to signing a space-sharing agreement with one of the world's major

1369 (July 15, 1997) Previous day - 1372The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

The Asia-Pacific will become the dominant market for new aircraft over the next 20 years, and the ca

1011 (July 15, 1997) Previous day - 1011The Baltic Exchange in London on Tuesdays and Thursd

PLANESEMERY TO EXPANDSORTING CENTERDAYTON, Ohio - Emery Worldwide Tuesday an

Indonesia will have a nuclear power plant some time between 2003 and 2005 to meet growing domestic d

British Airways told shareholders Tuesday that it needlessly lost tens of millions in a flight atten

The fate of the Long Island Lighting Co., the New York utility with the highest electricityrates in

POLAR AIR CARGORobert B. Stephens was appointed vice president of flight operations for this

July 15, 1997BALTIC INTERNATIONAL FREIGHT FUTURES MARKET Prev.Close High Low

OOCL WILL OFFER SLOTSERVICE IN MAERSK DEALSAN FRANCISCO - Orient Overseas Container Line sai