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California's freight transportation industry believes the clean air plan approved by the Environment

The European Union Tuesday agreed to avoid the issue of labor standards at the world's biggest trade

The trouble with insurance, as far as the man in the street is often concerned, is that it pays the

As of Oct. 29, 1996Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

International Petroleum ExchangeOct. 29, 1996 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

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Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc., an investment firm in Dallas, wants a larger stake of the expanding

Michael Moore, who filmed a scathing documentary critique of former General Motors Chairman Roger Sm

A new - and so far successful - idea using capitalization to replace privatization is spreading from

Atlantic Richfield Co. said Monday its earnings jumped 52 percent in the third quarter, fueled by hi

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

BUNKER FUEL LEAKSFROM DRY-DOCKED VESSELSAN FRANCISCO - More than 20,000 gallons of bunker fu

US, MEXICO SIGNANTI-DUMPING PACTWASHINGTON - The U.S. government and Mexican tomato growers

ALASKA CRUDE GAININGIN CHINA MARKETHONG KONG - China may continue to import cheaper Alaska N

Janet Porter, this newspaper's longtime London correspondent who oversees European maritime coverage

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India's Ministry of Commerce is calling for a phaseout of quantitative restrictions on imports over

Derek Pysher arrived in Bulgaria with two suitcases, $10,000 and no friends about three years ago, p

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Nov. 3, '95 - Oct. 29, '96 (a graph)* An

Brazil's economic outlook is brightening under new-found fiscal stability.A stabilization pr

Japan announced a mixed batch of indicators on its economy Tuesday, with industrial output showing s

A unit of CalEnergy Co., a fast-growing, Nebraska-based energy company, launched a $1.2 billion take

PAKISTAN TO AUCTIONREST OF TEXTILE QUOTASKARACHI, Pakistan - The state-owned Textile Quota M

With Turkey trying desperately to get the nation's credit rating back to a respectable level, the go

Despite strong State Department denials, signs of a policy shift on Iran have been piling up in the

The Economist Group announced Tuesday that Helen Alexander, the head of its business information uni

Oct. 29, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Mexican drug searchturns up smutMEXICO CITY - A routine drug inspection of a Transportacion

The burly crewman, his eyes dilated and hard, stood at Capt. Eduardo A. Sica's stateroom door and he

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CALIFORNIA APPROVESCUT IN COMP RATESSACRAMENTO, Calif. - The California Insurance Department

CANADIAN GASOLINE REPORTNOT YET FINALIZEDFREDERICTON, New Brunswick - The chairman of a New

Brazil's federal and state governments are speeding up their plans to privatize much of the nation's

The Port of Corpus Christi thinks it could be a big cotton player - but the New York Cotton Exchange

1281 (Oct. 29, 1996) Previous day - 1268The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

AIRBORNE POSTS DROPOF $3 MILLION IN PROFITSEATTLE - Airborne Express reported a sharp drop i

CHERNOBYL REACTORTO BE TURNED OFFKIEV, Ukraine - The first reactor unit of the Ukrainian Che

Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone, a fierce opponent of sweeping changes in federal farm policy, has ma