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Acting on input from potential traders, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange has revised its plans to tra

Iraq said Wednesday it still wants a complete lifting of curbs on its oil exports despite current ta

Moslem militants have told oil and gas workers in Algeria to stop work or they would send hit squads

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Malaysia is asking its state governments to take steps to curb imports, out of concern over a wideni

U.S. trade officials are meeting with their Chinese counterparts in Beijing this week in the latest

Advertising, boon or bane depending on your viewpoint, is big business in China as state controls dw

A senior Thai investment official on Wednesday rejected requests by General Motors Corp. for special

Ford Motor Co. said it will end its controversial ad campaign in Japan, which has upset a number of

JAPAN'S EX-IM BANK SETS LOAN FOR PHILIPPINESTOKYO - The Export-Import Bank of Japan

Representatives from the Asian Development Bank have promised to lend Cambodia $300 million to help

A potential rival to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum may loom as regional and European l

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

Russia's gross domestic product fell 16 percent in January from December 1995, totaling 166 trillion

The U.S. dollar extended losses to almost a full pfennig as the Deutsche mark strengthened across th

German gross domestic product is expected to fall around 0.5 percent in the first quarter of 1996 fr

As agriculture department scientists move toward agreeing to lift an 81-year- old ban on Mexican avo

"Your Sen. Helms, he's our hero."

Top Russian officials scrambled Wednesday to distance themselves from the interior minister's plan t

MEXICO STOCK EXCHANGE INVESTMENT RISES 16 PERCENTMEXICO CITY - Foreign investment in

Wednesday Feb. 14, 1996 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represen

Grenade blasts Wednesday damaged the local headquarters of the Royal Dutch/ Shell Group and a U.S. b

Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon expects to sit down with seven Central American head

Opening trade in the Pacific Rim depends on the active, full-time participation of the private secto

The European Parliament set itself on a collision course with Hollywood and European Union governmen

Trade leads are supplied by: U.S. Department of AgricultureForeign Agricultural Service<

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

The crisis at Bremer Vulkan, Germany's biggest shipbuilder, deepened Tuesday as the European Commiss

Federal Marine Terminals, one of the largest facilities at Chicago's port, may soon set sail for riv

A Malaysian shipping company and its Hong Kong partner are adding vessels at a rapid rate to broaden

Trucking executives in the Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor area were shocked Monday to receive notices

Northwest floodwaters continued to recede this week, but damage from the worst flooding in about thr

VAN OMMEREN SELLS 51 PERCENT OF DRY BULK UNITAMSTERDAM - Van Ommeren, the Dutch ship

Federal Express Corp., which has won many a race using a hare's speed, is turning to the tortoise's

TEAMSTERS AT PRESTON AGREE TO WAGE FREEZEPRESTON, Md. - Teamsters at Preston Truckin

Samsung, the South Korean industrial conglomerate, is examining the books of Fokker NV, the troubled

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150per ton lots &

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 247.50 off 0.52

Feb. 13, 1996 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent