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''It's fair to say the cherry industry is at its wit's end.''

A furious fight over Libya sanctions erupted in the Senate on Thursday after Sen. William V. Roth Jr

DOCUMENTS DESTROYEDUNDER PRUDENTIAL ORDERLOS ANGELES - Prudential Insurance Co. ordered mana

SIEMENS AG CONSIDERSLOCOMOTIVE DEAL WITH GMMUNICH - Siemens AG has said Wednesday it might f

Cargo traffic at the world's airports grew by a modest 3 percent in the first quarter, to 11.4 milli

Less expensive and better designed imported furniture has become popular in Japan as more Japanese a

A long-delayed plan to deregulate the European Union's postal market faces defeat today as a majorit

The $1 billion vessel-operating subsidy bill - pushed by GOP leader Trent Lott - faces minor opposit

BRITISH PRUDENTIALTO SPIN OFF UNITLONDON - British insurer Prudential Corp. PLC will sell sh

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The House didn't get to debate next year's proposed $1.3 billion Superfund budget Tuesday, giving in

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, June 30, '95, - June 26, '96 (a graph)*

While top Boeing Co. executives are in China this week for a rare board meeting outside of the Unite

On the eve of the meeting among leaders of the world's largest industrial nations, Jacques Santer, p

TWRA LOWERS JAPANCURRENCY SURCHARGESAN FRANCISCO - A gradual strengthening of the dollar aga

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 247.71 off 1.31 w

Russia should take strict control over the export of its raw materials, new security chief Alexander

Leo Suggs started working in the trucking industry as a way to help pay for his education as a pharm

House leaders reached a deal in which a vote on continuing normal trade relations with China could c

Contract Freighters Inc. of Joplin, Mo., has shown a profit in its Mexican operations every year for

Wednesday June 26, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

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

Reliance Group Holdings Inc. said Wednesday its Reliance Insurance Co. subsidiary will add $134 mill

Prefabricated aluminum-frame structures have been airlifted to trouble spots before.They've

Wednesday, June 26, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Lampooned as a pipe dream when first suggested in 1994, a proposal to have electronic clearance acro

TAIWANESE OFFICIALWILL VISIT CANADATAIPEI - Taiwan's top China policymaker and its chief neg

A federal judge slapped a Seattle man with a four-year prison sentence for selling over $2.1 million

SHIPSMASSPORT BACKS CREDITTO OFFSET HARBOR TAXBOSTON - Major shippers and the Massac

Money fleeced from U.S. merchant seamen by their union chief paid for nude dancers and limousines, a

June 26, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

JUNES.O.S. Safety on Ships. Through Dec. 30. New York. Exhibit on New York's maritime traged

West Coast longshore workers may stop working Monday if negotiations for a three-year contract are n

June 26, 1996RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unle

Analysts are somewhat bullish about the future of the cattle industry, which is currently suffering

As of June 26, 1996Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

International Petroleum ExchangeJune 26, 1996 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

U.S. crude oil inventories rose by 1.4 million barrels during the week ended June 21, compared with

Japan is taking a hard line into today's air negotiations with the Clinton administration, insisting