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Britain's latest privatized rail company is planning a big increase in the number of maritime contai

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

New York Mercantile Exchange - May 31, 1996Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

An association representing smaller workers' compensation insurers in California will disband and jo

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

Friday, May 31, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Even though diesel prices have been falling for the last six weeks, another sector of the trucking i

''We will look at any reasonable proposal, but we're greeting his proposal with a huge yawn.''

A broad agreement has been reached on modified Iran-Libya sanctions with the White House, a key Hous

EC FILES COMPLAINTOVER JAPANESE PIRACYBRUSSELS - The European Commission, angry at Japan's f

Environmental regulation, smaller harvests, changing production patterns and aggressive competition

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Emerging nations seeking to set up broker regulations now have the NAIB Model Insurance Broker Law t

''The more things change, the more they remain the same.''Or, for the more contemporary amon

Monthlong talks aimed at changing the way the government ships food-aid cargo overseas ended this we

TRUCKSS&P LOWERS RATINGON J.B. HUNTNEW YORK - Standard & Poor's, the financial ratin

First-quarter economic growth was notably less than previously reported, while both exports and impo

BRITAIN NARROWSITS TRADE DEFICITLONDON - Britain's global trade deficit narrowed in March to

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Daily global foreign exchange activity reached $1.2 trillion in April 1995, an increase of 45 percen

May 30, 1996RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unlea

U.S. software developers and their U.S. representatives are pressuring the Treasury Department to am

U.S. crude oil inventories rose by 2.6 million barrels during the week ended May 24, compared with t

Claims for the TT Club skyrocketed last year, increasing by 48 percent to nearly $61 million from ju

Two proposed measures being considered by the state legislature could impose a $20 surcharge on dome

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Thursday, May 30, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Detroit is America's top exporting city, thanks largely to surging automotive exports, according to

May 30, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

The United States and Japan gave up on meeting a June 1 deadline for resolving a complex dispute ove

It was a trumped-up charge and tests by both sides showed that.But the rumor that a crop pre

The U.S. Export-Import Bank declined to assist three U.S. companies competing for up to $750 million

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, June 2, '95, - May 30, '96 (a graph)(2)D

RUSSIA INVESTIGATESPHILIP MORRIS UNITMOSCOW - The Russian Federal Service for Currency and E

Japanese semiconductor makers will have to accept government involvement, if necessary, in a partner

EU, US TO HOLD TALKSON CUBA LEGISLATIONBRUSSELS - The European Union and the United States w

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WORLD BANK TEAMARRIVING IN TURKEYISTANBUL - A World Bank team was scheduled to arrive Thursd

FLORIDIANS ALLEGE FIRMOVERCHARGED THEMNEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - An attorney representing Flori

Britain's move to disrupt business in the European Union in protest of a ban on its beef exports cou