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Susan Meltzer, assistant vice president, insurance and risk management for Sun Life Assurance in Tor

JOHNSON & HIGGINSMyles A. Murakami was named a senior vice president of the brokerage firm's

The hard-fought agreement to scrap tariffs on information technology by the end of the century will

In the old days - up to three years ago - software giant Microsoft Corp. could manage with one broke

With the headquarters of the West Coast longshoreman's union having lost almost complete control ove

Merger mania among Eastern U.S. railroads is reaching a fever pitch one week before Conrail sharehol

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Friday, Dec. 13, 1996Percentages Per Year INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Dec. 29, '95 - Dec. 13, '96 (a graph)* A

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

''We're delighted. This came together in a far more concrete fashion than we had anticipated.''<

The stumble that Bill Daley took after being appointed President Clinton's next secretary of commerc

The European Union reached an uneasy compromise on rules to enforce budget discipline in its future

The European Union will open an official inquiry Wednesday into France's plans to inject cash into s

Kofi Annan, who heads U.N. peacekeeping operations, won the unanimous support of Security Council me

The U.S. dollar is expected to move a bit higher initially this week.Currency traders may be

The World Trade Organization concluded its first high-level meeting Friday after dodging a few bulle

Inclusion of labor standards in the final declaration of the World Trade Organization was ''a real v

In many ways, Asia is the ideal electronic marketplace.It has hundreds of millions of potent

TENNECO UNIT BUYSARGENTINE MANUFACTURERDEERFIELD, Ill. Tenneco Automotive, a unit of Tenneco

Walt Disney Co. and a video distributor were ordered Friday to make a down-payment of 100,000 francs

Brazil unveiled plans to dismantle state telecommunications company Telebras, Latin America's larges

In Cheddi Jagan's perfect world, the U.S. Congress would trim defense spending by 3 percent and impo

European leaders may be busy these days haggling over the future of their planned single currency, t

Colombia said Friday that it had sent an important message to the United States and international co

SHIPSCANADA'S VANCOUVERPOSTS STRONG 3RD QUARTERVANCOUVER, British Columbia - The por

Guatemala's president vows his administration is cracking down on corruption, but steamship lines co

One of the biggest fallacies in port development is the old line that if you build it, they will com

This week provided some of the best of times for Newark International Airport's cargo business. But

Union and management on the Port of New York and New Jersey waterfront agreed Thursday to trim 17 pe

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. said Thursday it reached a deal with its banks to extend its current agree

NS EXTENDS CASH OFFERFOR CONRAIL STOCKNORFOLK, Va. - Norfolk Southern Corp. extended its $11

Tired of long delays and queuing for one of the fleet of three ferries carrying most of the road tra

SALVAGE CREW REFLOATSGROUNDED BARGEYAKUTAT, Alaska - A barge that grounded for several days

William Daley, a Chicago lawyer who helped Bill Clinton reach the White House in 1992, was expected

1490 (Dec. 12, 1996) Previous day - 1477The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

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Further growth in the volume of seaborne coal trade this year will help offset modest declines in th

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