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'96 BULKER FLEET GROWTHFORECAST TO SET RECORDLONDON - The world's bulk carrier fleet looks s

China's shift to a market-driven pension system for retired state workers appears to have taken a gr

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by Reuter Money Service, are selling rates among

May 13, 1996Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

There's a newspaper story you see regularly in which grain shippers complain that there aren't enoug

For much of the past four decades, the U.S. military has struggled to come to grips with the evolvin

''It's a shame to let (the planes) sit there.''

Nearly $400,000 worth of pirated compact discs from China were seized Sunday by Hong Kong authoritie

May 13, 1996RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unlea

Nearly 37,000 Norwegian mechanical engineering workers went on strike Monday, hitting about 500 comp

UN CHIEF INTERVENESIN IRAQ OIL-FOOD TALKSUNITED NATIONS - U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Bou

Strong demand for platinum driven by sales of jewelry and electronic consumer goods will boost the p

The focus of insurance talks to be resumed by Japan and the United States in Tokyo today is possible

The Lone Ranger and Tonto. Batman and Robin. Warren and Feldman.Warren and Feldman?This dyna

Want a huge glass of cold frosty brew without a hangover of like size?You're not alone.Incre

Confident that they have prevented a unionized firm from cornering the driver pool in Los Angeles-Lo

Japan's trade surplus tumbled by nearly a quarter in the past year, the Japanese government said Mon

The Egyptian government has jumped a quantum leap forward in its privatization program by agreeing f

The Thai Parliament adjourned in an uproar over the weekend amid almost universal public condemnatio

Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin accused Western firms Monday of undermining the security

Property/casualty insurers are fuming over a proposed medical records confidentiality bill in the U.

Four years after it won a representation election at Federal Express Corp., the Air Line Pilots Asso

JAPAN, GERMANY TO HOLDHIGH-LEVEL FINANCE TALKSTOKYO - Japan and Germany will hold vice minis

COCA-COLA TO BUYEUROPEAN OPERATIONSATLANTA - Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. said Monday it signe

Japan lashed out at the United States over trade policy, saying it had endangered the global free-tr

The following fuel oil prices are for the week ending May 8, 1996 as supplied by the bunker fuel dep

New York Mercantile Exchange - May 13, 1996Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

May 13, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

TRUCKSOLD DOMINION FREIGHTINSTITUTES SURCHARGEHIGH POINT, N.C. - Old Dominion Freigh

Monday, May 13, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, May 19, '95, - May 13, '96 (a graph)(2)D

CURRENT TEXTILE QUOTAS:Where the average recent utilization rate indicates full quota utiliz

Japan's Marubeni Corp. said Monday it and Toho Towa Co. will join an international consortium set up

Asia's stunning economic growth and uncertain political development will largely shape the oil indus

The U.S. dollar was mixed Monday, rising against the Deutsche mark and falling against the Japanese

BRITAIN, CHINA SET PACTON HONG KONG AIRPORTHONG KONG - The United Kingdom and China agreed M

U.S. Trade negotiator Lee Sands met Beijing officials Monday to try to avert a multibillion-dollar t

Aiming to cut transit times and bolster its interregional service, Overnite Transportation Co. is co

1442 (May 13, 1996) Previous day - 1445The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lo

DUPONT, FRENCH FIRMIN JOINT CHINA VENTUREHONG KONG - Delaware-based DuPont Corp. and France'