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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

Apr. 29, 1996RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unle

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

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Apr. 29, 1996No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%B

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.

New York Mercantile Exchange - Apr. 29, 1996Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

International Petroleum ExchangeApr. 29, 1996 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

North Korea opened a tourism office in Taipei on Monday that can issue visas, in a bid to attract ca

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, May 5, '95, - April 29, '96 (a graph)(2)

Two Swiss banks are to resume talks with Philippine authorities, the family of former ruler Ferdinan

Apr. 29, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

''A layman doesn't know what GDP means and probably couldn't care less.''

As of Apr. 29, 1996Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

Apr. 29, 1996Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Robots were once the domain of assembly lines, replacing human workers who had numbed their minds an

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

KOHL LOWERS FORECASTFOR GERMAN GDP RISEBONN - Chancellor Helmut Kohl said the German governm

While truckers nationwide struggle with rising diesel prices, the California Trucking Association ar

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