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GREENPEACE PROTESTS VERACRUZ PORT PLANSMEXICO CITY - The Greenpeace vessel Moby Dick

Switzerland's unemployment rate rose to 4.5 percent or 164,656 in January compared with a 4.3 percen

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An American eye-care company has begun operations in India through a joint venture already earmarked

Expecting another tough year in the domestic economy, Mexico's largest steamship line will try to ex

Almost 4,000 Teamsters at Preston Trucking Co. are being asked to freeze their wages for two years,

Thursday, Feb. 8, 1996 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Feb. 8, 1996 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Thousands of Ukrainian miners, wrapped up against subzero temperatures, vowed Thursday to press on w

With a piqued U.S. trade delegation headed its way, China declared Thursday it is "fully and effecti

Thursday Feb. 8, 1996 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

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The Clinton administration spending plan for the Federal Maritime Commission in fiscal 1997 would re

A new U.S.-built double-hull product tanker delivered in 1998 would eventually find a market in U.S.

A plan by one of the nation's top insurance companies to separate its asbestos and environmental lia

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., alleging unfair treatment, is challenging a $250 million compens

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It's a trucking executive's worst nightmare. A vehicle owned by the executive's company is i

Feb. 8, 1996 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Investment from the United States will continue to flow into Sri Lanka despite last week's bombing o

BN REOPENS RAIL LINE FOLLOWING FUEL CLEANUPWHITE EARTH, N.D. - Crews have reopened a

"I don't remember the last time this happened."

A blue uniformed police officer stood on the corner of Kokkai Street and Sakurada Street in Tokyo Th

The cost of shipowners' liability cover is likely to remain stable this year despite a softening in

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

AETNA REPORTS RISE IN PROFIT FOR QUARTER, DROP FOR YEARHARTFORD, Conn. - Aetna Life & Casual

Feb. 8, 1996 No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%B

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 246.33 off 0.28

A rift doesn't exist between the European Union and the United States over Cuba, despite their radic

Japan Thursday announced a series of financial deregulatory steps aimed at spurring investment overs

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Importers who import raw materials or components that they then assemble or manufacture into final p

COURT ORDER HALTS SPREAD OF ILA STRIKEMOBILE, Ala. - A court order halted the spread

New York Mercantile Exchange - Feb. 8, 1996 Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High Low

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Feb. 10, '95 - Feb. 8, '96 (a graph) (2)

GLOSSARY AR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

China has quietly introduced a quality licensing system for export of coke in what officials said Th

President Clinton's attorney said Thursday that State Farm and a unit of Chubb Group have paid $900,

U.S. maritime unions representing pilots and other employees of the Panama Canal Commission are meet