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

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

(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

''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

Philippine President Fidel Ramos on Thursday signed into law a bill scrapping quotas on agricultural

A promising new area for American companies appears to be on the verge of opening up, thanks to a re

Port of Houston commissioners have temporarily backed away from controversial increases in wharfage

Mar. 28, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

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Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the diversified insurance holding company controlled by billionaire Warren

A new state law that starts Monday will allow people with pre-existing medical conditions to get cov

India's shipbreaking industry is in trouble, with output down, costs up and little hope of improveme

BOEING PLANS TO SELLGEORGIA HARDWARE UNITNEW YORK - Boeing Co. said Thursday it plans to sel

Two recent studies offered a mixed verdict on the feasibility of creating a consortium to pool air c

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

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

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

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

A $187 million sale of John Deere combines to Ukraine cleared two final government hurdles.T

Although Japanese consumers can be notoriously skittish about food safety issues, analysts said they

Bad weather and increasing competition from Mexico have significantly reduced Florida's share of the

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Union Pacific Corp. and Southern Pacific Lines clearly have their work cut out for them as more ship

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

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

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

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

Columbia Coastal Transport Inc. is taking over a barge service operating between Baltimore and Norfo

Although the North American Free Trade Agreement is not believed to have created an increase in nort

German plant and machinery orders in February fell a real 6 percent on the year, the German Machiner

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Mar. 31 '95, - Mar. 27, '96 (a graph)(2)

SAFETY ON SHIPS. Through Dec. 30. New York. Exhibit on New York's Maritime Tragedies. Seamen's Churc

The Port of Seattle Commission edged closer to a decision to approve construction of a controversial

An explosion at an industrial gas plant near the Delaware River here triggered a fire that burned fo

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A new round of fierce union opposition could dash France's hope of privatizing within the next two y