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The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 242.90 off 2.33

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

Jan. 12, 1996 RESELLER RACKUnleaded Mid- Premium-Unlead Pre

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

Lloyd's of London hopes to put its recent troubles behind it in 1996 and set the 300-year-old insura

Kirby Corp., a Houston tanker operator, has asked a federal court here to temporarily block the Mari

The law that closed the ICC has spurred fears that freight rates may rise in the U.S. coastal trades

Despite failing to obtain enhanced access to the U.S. market, Caribbean Basin apparel producers have

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"There is life beyond Congress. Just because you are stuck with this highly inflexible system doesn'

EU WHEAT TAX HITS FOOD AID SHIPMENTSThe European Union has found an embarrassing snag in its

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The European Commission is seeking sweeping changes to the European Union's workings to bring the bu

New York Mercantile Exchange - Jan. 11, 1996 Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High Low

The appointment of a new head of the Committee for the Implemention of Textile Agreements, a federal

USAir and Northwest Airlines recorded the highest load factors in their respective histories in 1995

The stock of foreign direct investment in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in mid-1995 rea

Family fights can drive you crazy. And if family members are also your business partners, they can m

China's graft busters hailed unprecedented successes in 1995 and said new tough action in 1996 would

Habla Espanol? Not if you're a bilingual U.S. Customs inspector working in Miami and you hav

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The European Union enters a crucial phase in its history this year, with a major constitutional revi

As of Jan. 12, 1996 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

A clever scheme for recycling Norway's first unneeded oil platform prompted a French company to drop

Jan. 12, 1996 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

American International Group and several other major insurance companies lost in court in their atte

REGIONAL BLOCS Surfing the Global Net From Caribbean Shores. Feb. 26-27. Barbados. C

Two U.S. firms that want to buy Jamaica's state-owned electricity company have created consortia wit

A court found that a Beijing-based company pirated a rival's computer software and ordered it to pay

SHELL OFFSHORE INC. TO BUY BENTON UNITNEW YORK - Benton Oil & Gas Co. has signed a l

ConAgra Inc. said it plans to sell parts of a malting business two months after spending $295 millio

Supporters responded enthusiastically as Pat Buchanan cranked up his guerrilla campaign for the pres

INTERMODAL ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA (Greenbelt, Md.) - Thomas L. Hardin, president of Hub Group

PILOTS SAY FAA RULE CONTAINS SERIOUS FLAWSWASHINGTON - A technical working group of

Rep. Bud Shuster has emerged as a power broker in his first year as chairman of the House Transporta

The European Union is preparing a fresh assault on red tape in a belated bid to jump-start its stall

Britain's trade deficit widened to 1.66 billion pounds ($2.57 billion) in October, the highest since

While U.S. stockpiles of low-level nuclear waste expand and the number of available disposal sites t

BAVARIAN RE RECEIVES S&P'S TOP RATINGLONDON - Standard & Poor's gave its highest rat

Optimism has paid off for South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries Co. in the shape of a mammoth dry d