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A joint venture between the state-owned oil companies in China and Taiwan for oil and gas exploratio

3RD CANDIDATE THROWSHAT IN HONG KONG RINGHONG KONG - A leading businessman announced Monday

Relative to past EU-Japan summits dominated by trade squabbles, both players mixed trade and key pol

6HIPSP&O-NEDLLOYD DEAL GETSLEADING BROKER'S SUPPORTLONDON - The planned merger betwe

Labor and management in ports from Maine to Texas began to wrap up negotiations Monday before a midn

Financial markets here welcomed news of a Nov. 17 general election after weeks of political tension.

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The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 246.64 up 0.15 whi

Monday Sept. 30, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

The Cote d'Ivoire said Friday it will postpone the opening of its 1996-97 coffee marketing season to

Sometimes an agreement to agree, combined with a small concession, is enough to turn potential disas

First demonstrated in 1839, fuel cells have been used in a variety of cost-no-object applications si

Citing Georgia's same-sex marriage law, Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine has denied requests fro

Today's export-minded Yankee trader has several tools he or she can use before embarking on a China-

Hungary was told last week by the World Trade Organization to remove import surcharges - introduced

The second of two bilateral panels deciding disputes between U.S. and Mexican steelmakers has raised

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1000 (Sept. 30, 1996) Previous day - 998The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

GLICKMAN EXPECTSTO MAINTAIN POSTWASHINGTON - Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman said Friday

Monday, Sept. 30, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

''The Tongue River Railroad is the most harebrained idea I've ever heard of.''

Relations between China and Taiwan remain uncertain more than six months after Chinese military exer

India said Monday it intends to expand the consensus it has cobbled together and prevent new issues

MAJOR URGES UK TO STAYIN CURRENCY TALKSLONDON - The United Kingdom must remain part of the n

The ship demolition market is in freefall.So many elderly bulk carriers are heading for the

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China's efforts to get more but better energy from its vast coal fields are boosted by new technolog

The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. has proposed a rate increase for the pilots in all three

Two brothers who ran an Ontario freight forwarding firm are under arrest for allegedly selling donat

Switzerland and the United States Friday signed a framework bilateral accord to improve and coordina

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. is getting a jump on the recently merged Union Pacific-Southern P

Ed DeFrancesco is a builder. As the president of a steamship agency that helps ship gas turbines to

As container carriers increasingly look to cut the number of ports they serve, some East Coast ports

Global markets for U.S. coal are expected to grow for the fourth straight year in 1997, with export

Transnational electronic commerce, electronic mail, online sales, intranet are some of the new - and

The North American Free Trade Agreement has changed the way Japanese-affiliated companies do busines

Smaller airports, left to struggle in the shadow of the nation's giant aviation complexes, are winni

NO CAPACITY CAPIN EUROPE-ASIA TRADESLONDON - Despite the difficult market conditions that pe

A tanker struck a bridge in Portland, Maine, and was spilling oil into the harbor Friday afternoon,