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PROCTER & GAMBLETO CUT PRICESCINCINNATI - Procter & Gamble said Wednesday it would reduce pr

Mar. 27, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

It's possible to ''steel'' a look at the future.The business of steel trading is changing th

Faced with rising Russian nationalism, the Clinton administration is minimizing Moscow's bad behavio

PORT OF HAMBURG POSTS37 PERCENT GAIN IN BOX TRAFFICBERLIN - With some help from the trend to

At least three people were killed instantly when a massive explosion roared through a steel mill at

Wednesday, March 27, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

World Bank President James Wolfensohn praised Egypt's economic reform plan Wednesday and said its pr

Forget Russia's presidential campaign. Benjamin Franklin is hogging the spotlight here this week, an

Leading German carmaker Volkswagen AG is re-entering the Philippine car market after an absence of m

The European Commission moved Wednesday to allay international fears about the safety of European be

The rapidly expanding Benicia Ports PLC has acquired Hobleman Port Services in Baltimore, making it

Truly Nolen's mouse cars and Spanish-language slogans such as ''Adios cucaracha'' helped the company

The story headlined ''US pushes for renewal of chip pact with Japan,'' which appeared Thursday, Marc

Russian shipping lines will play a secondary role to foreign carriers in developing intermodal trans

Russia's neighbors are cashing in on its ability to buy more goods from abroad and its inability to

Russian trade has grown strongly over the past year but the Port of St. Petersburg, Russia's window

South Korea's crude oil imports in February reached 70 million barrels, up 48 percent from the same

The closure of the Ka'u Sugar Co. brings an end to sugar production on the Big Island, and also leav

Foreign steel producers can expect a difficult time penetrating the U.S. market this year.A

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

The government appears to be encouraging shipowners to leave the British fleet and sail under foreig

The U.S. dollar rose Wednesday on hopes for a cut in German interest rates at today's Bundesbank cou

Rep. Bud Shuster's efforts to take $30 billion in transportation trust funds out of the federal budg

The volume in world merchandise exports is forecast to increase by 7 percent in 1996, or slightly le

When U.S. steel producers - eager to export - look overseas, they see an economic image ever flatter

The recent opening of Mexico's natural gas market is luring a slew of U.S. energy companies south of

Sea-Land Service Inc., the United States' largest shipping line, expects its business in the former

Canadian nickel miner Inco Ltd. on Wednesday made a $3.3 billion takeover offer for Diamond Fields R

1430 (Mar. 27, 1996) Previous day - 1428The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

Major Japanese life insurance companies plan to cut payouts to policyholders in fiscal 1996, startin

John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York has been dubbed one of the world's worst airports

India is planning to challenge a decision by the U.S. Court of International Trade to ban shrimp imp

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The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 252.44 up 0.36 whi

JAPANESE OFFICIAL BACKSCORPORATE TAX REDUCTIONTOKYO - Japanese Trade minister Shumpe

A tug hauling a barge loaded with mud dredged from the Port of Oakland sank last week 15 miles west

TIG HOLDINGS INC. (New York) - The board of directors of TIG Holdings Inc. nominated George D. Gould

They would fill more than 40 freight trains, each a mile long.If they were used, that is.But

Independent Pier Co. - one of the oldest stevedoring companies in the Philadelphia port - filed rece