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NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE (Milwaukee) - Richard R. Richter was named vice president-agency developmen

A cross-country advertising blitz touting the benefits - and disputing possible health concerns - fr

ANOTHER MEMBER TO QUITW.R. GRACE BOARDNEW YORK - W.R. Grace & Co. said Friday that Peter Lyn

BANKS BOOST RATESAS JAPAN ROW CONTINUESTOKYO - The lingering Diet standoff over a pl

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

U.S. steelmakers are choosing to battle Mexican trade penalties through North American Free Trade Ag

The Baltic Freight Index is a daily indicator of world bulk shipping freight rate levels.

Three Weeks Ended March 2, 1996, vs. Similar 1995 PeriodCars Cars Loaded Loaded

After skyrocketing last year, newsprint prices are likely to ease back to more moderate levels later

Three months ago cocoa was just another drink in Japan.But after mixing in a little televisi

''I would regard it as a disastrous development if Europe's strength were to diminish with its enlar

As of Mar. 8, 1996Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from sup

NIGERIA SEEKS TO ATTRACTFOREIGN INVESTMENTLAGOS, Nigeria - The Nigerian government is offeri

Stung by defections of some of its biggest customers, the U.S. Postal Service is changing classifica

For the week ended March 2, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

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A shrinking tanker fleet, shifting sources for crude oil and stable oil markets have restored some e

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Feb. 24 '95, - Mar. 8, '96 (a graph)(2)D

BHP Co. said it is still talking with the Vietnamese government over the disappointing Dai Hung oil

A serious incident last November at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant - site of the world's worst nu

The Port of Vancouver, British Columbia, needed to expand its forest products facilities as well as

Buffeted by weaker demand and falling prices, paper manufacturers in the United States and Canada ar

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Friday Mar. 8, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

Japan's telecommunications ministry said that Japanese companies use of the Internet stands at 11.7

The Japanese government is beginning to believe that Indonesia's program to develop a domestic autom

Leading German shipping companies demanded in Hamburg Friday that the European Commission relax its

Friday, March 8, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The U.S. dollar will rise this week, and may hit a high for the year against the Deutsche mark, curr

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

The Internet is dead. Long live the Intranet.You have to pay attention to keep up with all t

Amid rumors of yet another round of layoffs at the downsizing Port Authority of New York & New Jerse

A battle is brewing in France over plans by the government to push ahead with deregulation of the co

Profit plunged 20 percent for 1995 at Hong Kong's only aircraft repairer, reflecting what the firm c

The European Union has told Germany to amend a key environmental measure which it claims is an illeg

Following a year in which cross trades played their most important role ever, Transportacion Maritim

Inflation in Mexico fell in February, to the relief of the government, but remains on target to exce

BIG DIG PROJECT CALLEDMOST COSTLY IN HISTORYBOSTON - Massachusetts' embattled Big Dig highwa

REGIONAL BLOCSOverview of the Brazilian Telecommunications Sector. March 18. New Yor

A Russian military delegation held talks with Argentina's top military chiefs Friday on possible arm