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Sao Paulo, Brazil's most industrialized state, is leading several other of the nation's state govern

They called them ''monster homes'' - huge, multistory houses that Asian immigrants built where old V

Just at the time of year when the United States celebrates its independence from the British, one of

''While I applaud their efforts to keep drugs out . . . to just randomly drill holes in trailers hop

JAPAN'S TRADE SURPLUSDIPPED AGAIN IN MAYTOKYO - Japan's contentious trade surplus took anoth

The following fuel oil prices are for the week ending July 3, 1996, as supplied by the bunker fuel d

North Carolina's textile industry may be getting a boost from Congress as it tries to cope with the

Italian private shipowners are asking their new government to rethink its shipping policy and pass l

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Software giant Microsoft Corp. and a new Internet software development firm want to revolutionize th

CANADIAN FIRM TO BUILD11 HOTELS IN CUBATORONTO - Amid the furor over U.S. efforts to curb in

International air freight traffic in the first five months of this year grew by a patchy 4 percent,

As the United States moves to increase economic pressure on Cuba to obtain political and economic ch

HURRICANE BERTHAHITS CARIBBEAN ISLANDSCHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas - Forecasters urged U.S. m

Importers of Mexican produce in Arizona are considering a request for fee increases on their product

The Clinton administration is drawing up plans for economic sanctions against Colombian airlines in

A class action lawsuit filed on behalf of 29,000 travel agents alleges that large cruise lines short

The Federal Open Market Committee has given Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan the authority to raise rates

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China's second-largest maker of maritime containers hopes a pause for breath and recovery in trade w

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The upper house of Germany's Parliament gave final approval to a telecommunications bill that paves

July 5, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

As of June 28, 1996Parallel Market Foreign Exchange Rates are based on unofficial, non-docum

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, July 14, '95 - July 5, '96 (a graph)* An

The United States blocked a request by the European Union to create a trade panel on unilateral duty

US BLOCKS EU REQUESTFOR WTO PANELGENEVA - The United States blocked the European Union's req

FIRMS VIE TO DISPOSEOF BRENT SPAR PLATFORMLONDON - Twenty-one companies have been chosen to

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*July 3, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

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Peru is in the final stages of preparing an international request for bids to privatize port operati

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

Latin America is just beginning to produce value-added products for export.While Caribbean a

Engines off, the containership anchored off Montevideo, Uruguay, to wait for a berth where the port'

Shipping lines are watching closely as ports on both sides of South America upgrade facilities, but

A task force of state insurance regulators is reportedly preparing to fine Prudential Insurance Comp

The nascent California Earthquake Authority was voted out of a compromise committee late Wednesday o