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The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 252.36 up 1.64

Delegates of the U.S.-led consortium charged with building safe nuclear reactors for Pyongyang will

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China's third-largest port is getting a substantial injection of funds to boost container capacity f

You run a multinational company that has a major operation in Sao Paulo. Your chief executive there,

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The key to a successful Free Trade Area of the Americas will be close cooperation between the United

After years of fighting and bloodshed, the Caucasus has become the scene of a virtual peace race thi

Peru has presented to its Andean Community partners a list of technical problems it wants resolved t

ELF AQUITAINE SIGNS TWOMORE FIRMS TO OIL DEALBAKU, Azerbaijan - France's Elf Aquitaine, oper

International efforts to fight business-related corruption may gain further momentum this week as th

The world's largest tax-free shopping group is being frozen out of Hong Kong's new airport, where sh

In an unprecedented move, Texas lawmakers have allowed for the creation of a special overweight tran

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Air Express International Corp. announced it has created a joint venture in South Korea by acquiring

Caliber System Inc. signed the $80 million deal to sell its former Central Freight Lines unit to Cen

The notorious November 17 urban guerrilla group left few clues when it shot dead Greek shipowner Con

CMS Generation Co., a unit of CMS Energy Corp., announced it has closed $75 million in 12-year finan

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Europe's most ambitious postwar project, its planned single currency, appears set to survive whateve

The U.S. dollar drooped Wednesday, as European currencies weakened against the Deutsche mark.

Facing a Sunday deadline, Texas lawmakers are expected as early as today to reach a compromise on a

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Market control of the U.S. beef industry didn't change significantly in the past year, according to

Wednesday May 28, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

India's state-owned insurance companies are being given more investment freedom as part of the gover

With business both booming and shifting in nature, the consolidation arm of American President Lines

China said on Wednesday it was willing to help rival Taiwan dispose of nuclear waste as the island f

A permanent negotiating team is being created by the Hong Kong Shipowners Association to deal with w

The United States and the European Union sought Wednesday to gloss over mounting commercial tensions

One of Germany's biggest companies is considering buying a major stake in Hapag-Lloyd AG, the nation

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

UPS POISED TO RESUMECONTRACT NEGOTIATIONSLOUISVILLE, Ky. - Negotiators for United Parcel Ser

Buying and selling abroad means navigating forests of rules and reams of documentation enough to det

GERMAN RIVERS MOSEL,SAAR CLOSING FOR SHIPPINGHAMBURG - Shipping on the German rivers Mosel a

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