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(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Mar. 24 '95, - Mar. 15, '96 (a graph)(2)

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

Friday, March 15, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The dollar will rise like a Chinese rocket this week, fueled by ideas that the U.S. economy is havin

The World Bank's board of directors likes a proposal to provide more debt relief to the world's poor

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

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 247.90 up 0.58 w

Mar. 15, 1996Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

In the December trade report that appeared Feb. 29 on Page 7B, the table ''Exports, Imports and Bala

International Petroleum ExchangeMar. 15, 1996 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

New York Mercantile Exchange - Mar. 15, 1996Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

France's final nuclear test campaign in the South Pacific cost the country's wine and spirits export

With computer use soaring in China, more companies are jockeying for a chance to write programs in t

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

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

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

FOR FURTHERINFORMATION:These trade leads are supplied through the World Trade Center NETWORK

Railroad consolidation in the 1990s may look, at first glance, like the wave that swept the industry

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Parties under contract to Mexico's state-owned railroad are getting little information about where t

The European Union has ''little room for maneuver'' in negotiations with the United States and four

As the captain of the world's largest containership prepared for its maiden voyage a few weeks ago a

France Telecom, the state-owned telephone monopoly, should be partially privatized as quickly as pos

Nissan Motor Co. on Friday announced a plan for a joint venture to produce cars in Vietnam.N

Toyota Motor Corp. said the company and General Motors Corp. decided the dissolution of their Austra

JAPAN WILL CONSIDERTALKS ON CHIP PACTTOKYO - Softening Tokyo's refusal to discuss re

REGIONAL BLOCSSummit of the Americas. May 17-18. New Orleans. Contact: Office of Com

Running a successful port these days requires much more than operational skills, a good relationship

About the only thing European ports have in common is that they load and unload cargoes from ships.<

Where do ports handling refrigerated produce turn when they've explored every competitive avenue fro

Dismissing several hundred longshoremen would have brought Britain's international trade to a virtua

Shipping lines transporting timber and paper products into Europe have few complaints about the serv

Sea-Land Service Inc. has its own dedicated, automated facility at Maasvlakte in Rotterdam, but exec

Green used to denote someone who was a bit naive, or at the very least a novice in a particular acti

More than 20 carriers offer container service across the North Atlantic every week, although some do

As of Mar. 15, 1996Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

''This could get ugly.''

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Mar. 15, 1996RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unle