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The outlook for the dollar remains positive as the U.S. economy chugs along with no serious threat o

International Petroleum Exchange*July 3, 1997 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

July 3, 1997Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

WILHELMSEN REVAMPINGFRENCH, BELGIAN AGENCIESLONDON - Wilhelmsen Lines is restructuring its a

July 2, 1997Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

The new French government favors international investment in France, the minister for foreign trade,

The start-up of a new reactor Wednesday made a plant in northern Japan the world's largest nuclear p

Italy is objecting to the preferential treatment granted to Greece on coastal shipping rights.

Wednesday July 2, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

POLAND SETS DATEFOR JOINING EUWARSAW - The year 2002 is a reasonable target date for Poland'

Frustrating U.S. Department of Agriculture officials was a past specialty of former Islamist Prime M

A U.S. engineering consortium will integrate a $6 billion deep-tunnel wastewater collection, treatme

TWO LOSS DATA PROVIDERSDISCUSS MERGER OPTIONSNEW YORK - Two of the biggest providers of insu

July 2, 1997BALTIC INTERNATIONAL FREIGHT FUTURES MARKET Prev.Close High Low

Competition among Hamburg's two biggest port operators is heating up, with both stevedore firms vyin

Insurance companies would get dollar-for-dollar state tax credits by investing in venture capital fu

Eurotunnel SA, the embattled Anglo-French operator of the Channel Tunnel, appeared Wednesday to have

OFFERS TO BUY* TUDOR DRY CELL BATTERIES. Urgently seeking Tudor dry cells 1.5 volt size D. Y

A small Pennsylvania rail management firm is taking on the challenge of reviving rail service in Gua

The food-conscious French have acquired a taste for English sandwiches.The tunnel between En

It was a traveler's nightmare. Only worse.Linda Rogers, a professor of educational psycholog

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It's July. For one out of three U.S. companies, it's when new workers compensation insurance policie

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

July 2, 1997U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

'It's very hard to get people to do (mergers), because it is so bruising to the management structure

The Russian capital has decided to follow the gist of Charles Wilson's advice - what's good for Amer

Luis Ernesto Ayala frets about Mexico's current economic situation. Like other businesses, the head

MARITIME CARGO DISPUTESINKS EU-MEXICO PACTBRUSSELS - A long-awaited trade treaty between the

Wednesday, July 2, 1997Percentages Per Year INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The domestic textile industry has started using a new and potentially far-reaching tool to discourag

ALLEGHENY LUDLUM BEGINSCONSTRUCTION OF PLANTPITTSBURGH - Allegheny Ludlum Corp. has broken g

A settlement has been reached in a yearlong dockworker labor dispute that severely disrupted contain

TAIWAN INCLINATION ISTO PRIVATIZE TAIPOWERTAIPEI - The state-run Taiwan Power Co. said Wedne

A coalition of business and consumer groups this week unveiled a new plan for opening Michigan's ele

SHIPSCOAST-TO-COAST RAIL ROUTEUNVEILED BY EVERGREENLOS ANGELES - Evergreen M

International Petroleum ExchangeJuly 2, 1997 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Economics, especially the problems of finding somewhere acceptable to live, will be the main focus o

Two rival Houston-based international oil well firefighting firms announced plans to merge by late J

Barbados has signed a controversial treaty with the United States to stem drug trafficking through t