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Tuesday, Oct. 15, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The U.S. dollar rose to the highest level since January 1994 against the Japanese yen Tuesday, and t

A banking association for Central and Eastern Europe was established Tuesday when the Clearing Bank

BILL AIMS AT HALTINGTRADE SECRET THEFTWASHINGTON - President Clinton signed into law a bill

Nearly 4,000 General Motors Corp. workers in the United States and Mexico were sent home from assemb

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Oct. 20, '95 - Oct. 15, '96 (a graph)* A

The European Union will unveil plans today to enforce budgetary discipline in its planned single cur

''That encouraged us to add county jails and penal institutions to our address verification system.'

CURRENT TEXTILE QUOTAS:Where the average recent utilization rate indicates full quota utiliz

JAPANESE FIRMS MAY PAYTAXES ON OVERSEAS FINESTOKYO - The Finance Ministry plans to make taxa

As trade gets tougher and overseas investors have more options to choose from, Taiwan's government i

More U.S. households are in debt than their Japanese counterparts, but the average outstanding loan

Last week in the New York and European money markets, Russia's President Boris Yeltsin died for two

The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday stressed the urgency of establishing a comprehensive tax

HUNGARY DISMISSESHEAD OF PRIVATIZATIONLONDON - The Hungarian minister in charge of privatiza

How to use:Trade leads are sent to the USDA from U.S. agricultural attaches, counselors and

Enova Corp. and Pacific Enterprises announced they will merge into one of the nation's largest utili

HOW TO USE:Trade leads on this page are listed according to type of lead. Codes preceding ea

HOW TO USE:Trade leads on this page are listed according to type of lead. Codes preceding ea

Mexico's surprise weekend decision to back away from privatizing secondary petrochemical plants has

The U.S. Customs Service is escalating its war on textiles and apparel illegally transshipped throug

What nuclear inspectors have learned about problems at nuclear power plants in Connecticut and Maine

European Union Environment Commissioner Ritt Bjerregaard will push Wednesday for scientists to repor

Trade executives from the western United States met their counterparts in the Far Eastern city of Kh

OCEANS PANEL CHIEFURGES MORE AWARENESSGENEVA - The chief of the Independent World Commission

TOTEM OCEAN TRAILEREXPRESS INC.Caroline Higgins was promoted to Fairbanks manager, with resp

Cote d'Ivoire should announce in the next few months specifics of the sale of its Compagnie Ivoirien

OFFERS TO BUYOffice furniture & equipmentRef No.: 044251 Filed: 10-02-96Looking for

While power projects in developing countries offer enormous opportunities for exporters and investor

The following fuel oil prices are for the week ending Oct. 9, 1996 as supplied by the bunker fuel de

A new approach to improving maritime safety by the U.S. Coast Guard is already paying dividends.

GREEK SHIPPING MINISTERWANTS FEWER NEW RULESROTTERDAM - Greece's new shipping minister is ca

U.S. importers are spending millions of dollars a year on insurance for their cargo shipments, somet

They still talk about the time that bosun William Horton leapt into the water to save the day.

SHIPSSINGAPORE PORT AGENCYAWARDS TERMINAL CONTRACTSINGAPORE - The Port Authority of

Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg-Sud, Germany's top two liner shipping companies, are to investigate cooperat

BOEING WILL DOUBLE737 TWIN-JET PRODUCTIONSEATTLE - Boeing Co.'s Commercial Airplane Group wi

COMPANY PERFORMANCEPercentYear Closing ChangeHigh/ Price in P/E 52-Week 52-W

As of Oct. 15, 1996Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

A wide-ranging review of the Baltic Exchange will be carried out to decide on the future of the worl