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Against a backdrop of soured U.S.-Japanese trade relations, dock unions in Japan are a week away fro

COMPANIES AGREE TO PAYPENALTIES FOR OIL SPILLSPARKERSBURG, W.Va. - Pennzoil Products Co. and

The epic struggle for control of the nation's Eastern rail system apparently will end with a divisio

Waterfront labor and management here last week issued a statement responding to charges that they ar

The letter coming across the fax machine of a major U.S. trucker carried bad news. It wasn't the fir

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

Taiwan has agreed in principle on a formula for opening its market to rice imports once it is allowe

U.S. Customs officials sponsoring the Symposium of the Americas put an exclamation mark on antidrug

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

As a presidential task force prepares to issue guidelines on curbing sweatshops, business and human

Monday, March 3, 1997Percentages Per Year INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The U.S. dollar rose Monday as strong economic data reinforced Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greensp

The global talks to remove all import duties on information technology products by the year 2000 app

The Philippines is backing reductions in duties on a wide range of items in the information technolo

Mexico may have squeaked by with an 11th-hour certification from President Clinton that it is an amp

California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush oversees the nation's largest insurance marketpl

SHIPSGREEK TANKER SPILLS OILOFF VENEZUELA COASTCARACAS, Venezuela - A Greek

United Parcel Service officials are breathing a sigh of relief after UPS escaped the worst of winter

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

PESO FALLS BELOW 8.0000ON GREENSPAN FEARSMEXICO CITY - The Mexican peso broke through key su

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,524-$1,595 per ton lo

German police detained more than 100 anti-nuclear activists across the country as controversial ship

New York Mercantile Exchange - Feb. 28, 1997Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High L

March 3, 1997This table shows the vessels scheduled to call at U.S. coal terminals and the e

One of the great promises of the World Wide Web is that it will allow you to track what every user i

A baggage handler at LaGuardia Airport was injured Monday when he became wedged between a conveyor b

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(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, March 1, 1996 - Feb. 28, 1997 (a graph)*

Several senators have sharply criticized President Clinton's decision to recertify Mexico as an ally

New Hampshire spooked Wall Street when it became the first state to tell electric utilities they can

Import duty cuts announced in the latest Indian budget by Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram s

Texas is spending millions of dollars on highway improvements to accommodate traffic between the Uni

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UNION AGREES TO SEEKTALKS WITH LUFTHANSAFRANKFURT - The union representing 12,000 pilots and

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

MEXICO TO CONTINUEITS DEREGULATIONMEXICO CITY - Mexico will continue deregulation and seek f

Russian government officials, with the help of influential and self-interested financial parties, ar

HAPAG-LLOYD SLATESINCREASE IN DIVIDENDLONDON - Hapag-Lloyd, the German shipping and tourism

The following fuel oil prices are for the week ending Feb. 26, 1997 as supplied by the bunker fuel d

TENNECO TO BUY BACKUP TO 5 PERCENT OF ITS SHARESGREENWICH, Conn. - Tenneco Inc., which has s