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Record-high exports of both goods and services trimmed the U.S. trade deficit in August to $8.8 bill

Consolidated Freightways Inc., the trucking, air cargo and logistics company, reported improved earn

Toxin-contaminated mud that offended New Yorkers enough for them to send it to Utah has unexpectedly

Four years after the start of its recession, Japan is seeing record bankruptcies pegged to earthquak

A Russian government tax commission Wednesday urged the oil and gas company Nizhnevartovskneftegaz t

A record number of employees were caught with their hands in the corporate cookie jar this year with

A deal involving 1,000 pregnant dairy cows that will soon sail to Vietnam is one of the tangible res

Three months after it raised $25 million through a stock offering, the privately owned Port of Benic

Coast Guard budget cutbacks stemming from an agency streamlining plan won't disrupt commercial ship

DHL Worldwide Express has introduced a new software package that offers exporters a comprehensive pa

Wednesday Oct. 18, 1995 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represen

Port of Portland, Ore., commissioners approved the sale of 46 acres of land in the port's Rivergate

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(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Oct. 21 '94 - Oct. 18, '95 (a graph) (2)

Local firms snapped up the rights on Wednesday to plaster advertising on Chinese trains rolling betw

The Senate may move today to pass a softened version of a bill aimed at ousting Cuban President Fide

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 240.46 off 1.80 w

International Petroleum Exchange Oct. 18, 1995Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Post-Soviet Russia is getting by with a lot less wheat these days, as the nation's once-huge livesto

A four-state Northwest power council is set to begin a formal review of the region's energy system,

A Superfund reform bill finally hit the House hopper Wednesday, without the changes to the liability

Turkey's state sugar manufacturer Wednesday began sugar beet buying that had been delayed by a strik

Vietnam's state oil company PetroVietnam has launched an oil processing and marketing unit to gear u

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Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. is battling the historical perception that ships of carriers sailing under

As India continues its economic revolution, new opportunities in myriad industries are luring foreig

U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown on Wednesday called on China to provide better market access to cu

VOLVO INTRODUCES AIR BAG FOR TRUCKSGREENSBORO, N.C. - Volvo Truck Corp. announced Th

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The U.S. dollar shot higher Wednesday after the release of a bullish August trade report. Th

Mongolia and Kuwait signed a trade and technical cooperation pact that officials Wednesday said coul

STRIKE PARALYZES COPPER MINE IN PERULIMA, Peru - Workers at Peru's Cerro Verde coppe

Oct. 18, 1995 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Wells Fargo & Co. said Tuesday it proposed a $10 billion merger with First Interstate Bancorp, an of

Alcan Aluminium confirmed that 1,000 workers at its Arvida aluminum smelter and Vaudreuil alumina re

OIL REFINERY PLANNED IN BANGLADESHLONDON - The Iranian private sector will be constr

CANADA, EU DISCUSSING NEW FREE-TRADE AREABONN, Germany - Canadian Minister for Inter

Hong Kong's electronics sector is sparking nicely, but a number of experts think strategy must be re

Morrison Knudsen Corp., in its most significant move to date to stabilize its finances, is spinning