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Friday, Dec. 15, 1995 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

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

Currency trading for tax purposes should hold the U.S. dollar steady and even slightly higher in the

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Dec. 23, '94 - Dec. 15, '95 (a graph) (2

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:These trade leads are supplied through the World Trade Center NETWOR

U.S. and Mexican labor officials agreed Sunday on a three-step plan to address the first labor compl

The U.S. labor movement is preparing a "massive political effort" throughout the country to mobilize

Business sentiment in the western German manufacturing industry rose to an index reading of 94.8 poi

The European Union christened its planned single currency - the Euro - and pledged to launch it in J

Japan's copper production will remain at near-full capacity of more than 100,000 tons per month thro

Monthly surveys of economists' expectations often missed the mark badly in forecasting the size of t

"It's ugly, ugly, ugly."

SUMITOMO HOPES TO BUY DAIWA'S US OPERATIONSJapan's Sumitomo Bank said Friday that it hoped t

Residents of Fukui prefecture who filed suits in 1985 seeking a shutdown of the Monju nuclear reacto

They say to be successful in business one should be daring, be different, be first. That is as good

COFFEE GROUP SAYS STOCKS ALARMINGLY LOWHAMBURG - Low coffee stocks in consumer count

A wayward ringtail, a small desert animal, briefly knocked out a reactor at one of the country's big

Commonwealth Edison Co. has proposed a rewrite of the Illinois Public Utilities Act to allow the sta

Enron Corp. said Friday that it had reopened hearings in India over the fate of its troubled indepen

The message from Jan H. Meurer is simple: "We are not an airline anymore, we are a logistics-service

It has been a difficult year for air cargo shippers in Alaska with MarkAir and its subsidiary MarkAi

CHINESE FIRM GETS OK FOR PROJECT'S 2ND PHASEShandong Huaneng Power Development Co., which li

The African National Congress, backed by sport and labor groups in an anti- Nigerian coalition, anno

WHEN IT ABSOLUTELY, positively has to be there, you probably needed an excuse this month. The job ac

The explosion in new domestic and regional freighter operations in India is generating interest amon

Like the Andes that serve as the nation's spine, rising majestically above the clouds, Chile's air c

Reforming the Federal Aviation Administration used to be one of those perennial legislative topics y

The word was "Plastics." At least that's what Dustin Hoffman was advised when contemplating his futu

If you are into cargo jargon the phrase "unit load devices" is no big thing, unless of course you ha

There aren't many passengers who can shake a plane out of the air. Or whose size and weight,

The main reason for airlines and forwarders to computerize air freight documents is so they can coll

The nearly year-old "open skies" accord between the United States and Canada is propelling airlines

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Not every freight forwarder or broker can boast the size of Fritz Cos. or Hub Group. What they can h

Dear Santa Claus: I am afraid that I have not been a very good girl this year. I underpaid m

William H. Cunningham, the University of Texas Chancellor in Austin, announced his resignation from

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Further evidence of the downward spiral in shipping rates on the Pacific was provided this week when