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Thursday, July 3, 1997Percentages Per Year INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

With some prominent exceptions relating to shipper access, Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway

July 3, 1997Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

The European Commission is working frantically to prepare for its biggest day since it took office

Congo, the former Zaire, plans to target telecommunications, farming and road building as priorities

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The chief of the United Nations is calling for improved market access for the world's least develope

OFFERS TO BUY* GLOVES: LEATHER. Specifications: cow split, reinforced palm, denim back and c

Comparing the productivity of Asian ports with that of U.S. ports is no comparison at all. Asian por

Everybody complains about the weather.Employers Reinsurance hired its own climate scientist

It's the kind of export industry that rubs law enforcement the wrong way.Many cars stolen in

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

July 3, 1997No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 27.

New York Mercantile Exchange - July 2, 1997Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High Lo

July 3, 1997U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

OIL STORAGE TANK CATCHESFIRE NEAR ALBANIAN PORTVLORE, Albania - An oil storage tank caught f

A Korean-owned factory in Vietnam that makes shoes for Nike Inc. recently issued a public apology to

He was caught with his pants down in a lavatory during a trans-Atlantic flight but insists he's inno

The Surface Transportation Board swatted down an effort by two Washington cities that sought more po

The Clinton administration's three-year report card on the North American Free Trade Agreement is ex

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