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''The World Trade Center blast was just the exclamation point at the end of the sentence.''

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

The Comptroller of the Currency pledged last week to work with state insurance regulators on who sho

Friday, Aug. 2, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

In its first flexing of legal muscle, a trinational environmental agency established under the North

Three weeks ended July 27, 1996, vs. similar 1995 periodCars Cars Loaded Loaded

1062 (Aug. 2, 1996) Previous day - 1062The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lo

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The European Commission's image and authority have been seriously undermined in recent weeks and the

The Baltic Freight Index is a daily indicator of world bulk shipping freight rate levels.

When the world's top ocean carriers began introducing much bigger containerships into their main ser

Scania AB's pretax profit for the first half of the year dropped 25 percent, reflecting the stronger

The Clinton administration has named about a dozen apparel industry players to a group given the lof

Asbestos insurance firms fined $10.6 million for failing to turn over court-ordered information to t

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The U.S. dollar won't be getting a lift from interest rates in August, but it will rally back to 1.5

Willy Morgan, publisher of The Economist in North America, has been named publisher of The Journal o

The concept of ''degrees of separation'' suggests that each of us is separated from everyone else by

New York Mercantile Exchange - Aug. 2, 1996Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

MITSUI OPENS OFFICEIN NEW JERSEYTOKYO - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. has opened a tanker safety

Aug. 2, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,300-$1,500 per ton lo

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