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Thursday Apr. 11, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

Eastman Chemical Co. is switching the site of its plant to produce what are called oxo chemicals to

Builders Transport Inc. spent about $750,000 it didn't have last year complying with federal drug an

A Malaysian bulk operator is the latest to announce an increase in fleet size, backing government ca

Thursday, April 11, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Supply chain managers better get used to the idea of continually revamping their distribution system

The Russian people would be eating much better today if wholesale distributors could get food from t

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150 per ton lo

Apr. 11, 1996Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Lloyd's of London has accused the California Department of Corporations of releasing ''grossly inacc

The Clinton administration has called a well-timed truce in an interagency turf war over exports of

WESTERN PACIFIC PLANSTO BUY BOEING 737SSEATTLE - Western Pacific Airlines, a new-start disco

Spain's unemployment rate in March was 15.30 percent, down from 15.44 percent in February and 16.47

RECENT VESSEL SALESSaleDate Vessel Year Price

International Petroleum ExchangeApr. 11, 1996 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

CANADIAN MINING FIRMIN MYANMAR VENTUREYANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's national mining enterprise

135-MILE LINE ADDEDTO BNSF SALES LISTOROVILLE, Wash. - Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. ha

It's usually best to acknowledge a mistake and move on, and that's what a rate-making group of outbo

The Philippine government filed criminal charges Thursday against five officials of partly Canadian-

TAIWAN, US SIGN ACCORDON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTYTAIPEI - Taiwan and the United States have sig

The closer one looks at the upturn in U.S. automotive exports to Japan, the tougher it gets to lay a

REFORM SEEN HIDDENBY VIETNAM'S RHETORICHANOI - Vietnam's draft report for its party congress

Heavy-truck sales declined sharply in March from record levels of last year, confirming forecasts of

Fan Wei squats in the mud as he waits for trucks carrying Vietnamese mangoes to cross the border int

The U.S. dollar rose against the Deutsche mark Thursday and was unchanged against the Japanese yen.<

American President Lines will be a viable competitor for less-than-containerload business between ma

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, April 14, '95, - April 11, '96 (a graph)

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

1454 (Apr. 11, 1996) Previous day - 1456The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

''$5,800 is a lot of money. Maybe not for a big multinational. But for a small company $5,800 can bu

FOUR CHINESE ARRESTEDFOR TRADING IN PANDA FURHONG KONG - Four Chinese were arrested in the s

Just over two weeks after Taiwan held a presidential election that stirred China to furious protest,

7-YEAR-OLD PILOT KILLEDIN WYOMING CRASHCHEYENNE, Wyo. - A 7-year-old girl trying to become t

The supervisory board of Germany's largest shipbuilder, Bremer Vulkan Verbund AG, agreed at a meetin

The fragile Sino-American relationship stands at a crossroads - again.Along one fork lies a

Making a Lazarus-like comeback, a controversial private toll highway proposed at the border with Mex

Cotton shippers and freight forwarders who book cotton for export are making an urgent plea to the s

FELIXSTOWE OPENSNEW CONTAINER TERMINALLONDON - Britain's Port of Felixstowe expects containe

Transportation Secretary Federico Pena chose eight states to test the use of state infrastructure ba

Israel's Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. said Thursday it received Food and Drug Administration