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Global talks to liberalize telecommunications services ran into an eleventh-hour crisis Monday, as t

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US URGED TO AVOIDSANCTIONS ON MYANMARBANGKOK - The American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand

CHINESE-ISRAELI VENTURETO PROCESS ALUMINUMBEIJING - China National Non-ferrous Metals Indust

Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of imported shrimp could be blocked at the U.S. border by sea

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 261.45 off 0.36 wh

Cuba's umbrella labor union threw its weight firmly behind the government's determination to stick w

MasterCard International Inc. has plunged into Vietnam's consumer financial market by issuing its fi

VEGETABLE PRICE GROWTHFORECAST TO SLOWWASHINGTON - Retail prices of fresh vegetables are lik

The worldwide personal computer market is forecast to grow 19.1 percent in 1996, with the U.S. marke

Four deaths in Missouri were blamed on heavy rains and high winds as the punishing weather swept car

Major importers such as Wal-Mart Corp. and J.C. Penney Co. say they will divert thousands of contain

The world's container-carrying fleet could expand by almost a quarter over the next few years if the

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

BOEING SALES, EARNINGSSLUMPED IN FIRST QUARTERSEATTLE - Lingering effects of last year's 69-

European Union agriculture ministers met Monday to hear new British plans for tackling Bovine Spongi

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

The rapid advance of technology is helping to accelerate and standardize international trade and tra

Heavy weather at sea and theft of cargo at ports can produce losses for exporters and claims for ins

The debut early this year of the Regina Maersk, the world's first ship capable of carrying 6,000 20-

The U.S. dollar slumped against the Japanese yen Monday, with no sign of Bank of Japan intervention

A blunt assessment Monday from top economists at German research institutes that government fiscal p

The current grain crisis that has sent wheat prices skyward and buyers scrambling for supplies may u

Washington's prolonged bickering over the 1996 federal budget managed to rack up casualties as far a

Friday, April 26, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

1463 (Apr. 29, 1996) Previous day - 1465The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

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CHINA EXPECTED TO RELAXTIGHT CREDIT POLICY SOONHONG KONG - China is likely to relax its tigh

Drought-stricken farmers are better off with the new national farm policy, even without emergency re

A meeting between European Union External Trade Commissioner Leon Brittan and high level representat

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Transportation stocks performed generally well last week, with The Journal of Commerce transportatio

The coal unit train is a familiar railroad workhorse but seems an unlikely candidate for high-tech i

Merger partners Union Pacific Corp. and Southern Pacific Transportation Co. Monday submitted an exte

The story headlined ''Rail merger controversy rages on,'' which appeared Monday on Page 4B, should h

It's one thing to get the ball rolling, and another to keep it rolling. Although the transportation

U.S. consumers who have indirectly funded the infrastructure development of Mexican monopoly Telefon

Apr. 29, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

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