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The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 245.42 up 3.43 w

Virginia Power officials have been summoned to Atlanta this week to explain to the Nuclear Regulator

Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Friday urged Muslim countries to use the oil weapon to pr

P&O CONTAINERS GETS3 NEW BOARD DIRECTORSLONDON - P&O Containers has appointed three new dire

A new semiconductor trade accord between the United States and Japan brings to an end the relationsh

When Chile first moved to privatize its state-owned industries in the 1970s, it did everything wrong

House Ways and Means trade subcommittee chairman Philip Crane, R-Ill., and other representatives pla

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Aug. 11, '95 - Aug. 2, '96 (a graph)* An

Congress moved late Friday to revive a long-dormant program providing duty-free entry on thousands o

JAPANESE BANKS MAKEINROADS IN MYANMARTOKYO - Major Japanese banks have moved to strengthen t

As exports continue to sag, economists are revising downward projections of Hong Kong's growth this

As of August 2, 1996Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

International Petroleum ExchangeAug. 2, 1996 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

ILLEGAL GOLD PITSORDERED SHUT IN CHINABEIJING - Some 498 illegal gold pits have been closed

Aug. 2, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

Shipping lines that call at the Port of Los Angeles won an important victory at the weekend in their

The river Port of New Orleans, marking its 100th anniversary this year, is bursting at the seams aft

Aviation experts are getting a rising sense of deja vu as Congress and the White House scramble to r

Quincy Mayor James Sheets says this suburb's shipyard could receive approximately $5 million for mod

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JAPANESE TRADING FIRMSORDER 22 BOEING JETSTOKYO - Two Japanese trading companies have ordere

Aug. 2, 1996Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

Aug. 2, 1996

Trans-Pacific shipping lines met at the weekend to hammer out an agreement on the future of freight

The parties to the U.N. Law of the Sea convention have elected 21 judges to a tribunal that will rul

GATX PARTNERSHIPSORDER 23 BOEING JETSSEATTLE - Partnerships formed by GATX Capital Corp. hav

Boeing Co. is planning to remove hundreds of jobs from the machinists union's bargaining unit withou

A new worldwide drive against the production of counterfeit goods was launched in London last week b

ALCATEL-MARUBENI CORP.FranceAmount of contract: $21,780,369.Contract description: Re

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100%) is as follows

MINSK RESIDENTS PROTESTMCDONALD'S OPENINGMINSK, Belarus - Residents of a district in Minsk,

Illinois Central Railroad has signed a marketing agreement with Burlington Northern Santa Fe for int

$60 MILLION MORE CREDITALLOCATED FOR TURKEYWASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agriculture a

A government advisory panel called for simplifying the structure of farm cooperatives and promoting

AETNA, BANCOMER AGREETO FORM PENSION FIRMHARTFORD, Conn. - Aetna Inc. and its Chilean subsid

Having successfully fended off attacks from the United States and other trading partners, Canada is

For the week ended July 27, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

Guy Martin, who manages one of Jamaica's leading apparel exporting companies, has more than garments

Despite tensions with Europe, the White House said Friday President Clinton will sign a bill today i

Cargo volume at the Port of Richmond, Va., climbed 11 percent in the recently completed fiscal year,