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A refurbished Fiat auto plant in this northern Italian city is the unlikely setting for the start of

NEW TECHNOLOGY REVIVESLOUISIANA OIL EXPLORATIONNEW ORLEANS - Interest in oil exploration in

Trade leads supplied by:U.S. Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole has handed opponents of maritime subsidies a powerful tool for gener

The future of a landmark earthquake insurance program has been thrown into doubt as California lawma

Mar. 28, 1996Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

In a move that signals a graduation from low-tech to high-tech production in Mexico's border plants,

As of Mar. 28, 1996Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

A consortium that represents 95 percent of the world's container leasing capacity has asked to meet

The St. Lawrence Seaway System, a 2,400-mile waterway linking the Midwest to the Atlantic Ocean, is

International Petroleum ExchangeMar. 28, 1996 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

New York Mercantile Exchange - Mar. 28, 1996Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

Mar. 28, 1996RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unle

Mar. 28, 1996No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%B

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 252.95 up 0.29

Mar. 28, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

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

Fighting to protect its rank as the Western world's biggest nickel producer, Inco Ltd. is shedding i

Only table.

U.S. and European Union specialty steel producers formally proposed Thursday an international agreem

The Bundesbank's decision Thursday to keep key interest rates unchanged triggered a jump in the valu

Belgian consumer prices rose 0.07 percent in March from February and were 2.03 percent higher than i

The House on Thursday passed national debt limit legislation held hostage in the long battle between

Thursday, March 28, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The U.S. Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corp. expect to expand their financi

MITSUI, PARTNER STARTRICE-POLISHING VENTURETOKYO - Mitsui & Co., a leading Japanese trading

South Korean companies have returned to Texas to explore 180,000 acres in north-central Texas that m

France said on Thursday it had secured an emergency meeting of European Union farm ministers in Brus

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

China and the United States ended three days of talks with little progress in their dispute over ill

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Mar. 31 '95, - Mar. 28, '96 (a graph)(2)

Japan's Fair Trade Commission ordered 13 major department store companies Thursday to stop rigging t

Iran has the largest stockpile of chemical weapons in the Third World and an arsenal of missiles cap

A trouble-plagued copper mine that was looking forward to a good year is instead facing closure for

Thursday Mar. 28, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

The Malaysian economy grew by 9.5 percent in 1995 compared with 9.2 percent a year earlier, Malaysia

President Fidel Ramos signed legislation Thursday designed to make it easier for foreign players to

PHOENIX AGREESTO BUYOUT BY APACHENEW YORK - Oil and gas explorer Phoenix Resource Cos. said

''Everyone builds the church for Easter Sunday; then we live with the fact we have more agnostics th

Only a few weeks before President Clinton meets with Japan's prime minister, talks designed to solve