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Friday July 28, 1995 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 234.89 off 0.39

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

AETNA LIFE ABANDONS PLAN TO SELL AELTUSHARTFORD, Conn. - Aetna Life & Casualty said

IRAN OPENING PROJECTS TO FOREIGN INVESTORSNICOSIA, Cyprus - Iran will open 12 major

Sometime during the next few weeks, the United States and Brazil are expected to sign a scientific c

Costa Rica is preparing to break open its insurance monopoly, which dates back to the 1930s.

For the week ended July 22, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

Airlines and forwarders recognize that bar codes can bring better service and lower costs to the air

FINANCIAL SERVICES DEAL WINS FORMAL APPROVALA total of 29 key industrial and emerging powers

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In the lastest indication of the wave of consolidation that is sweeping the maritime industry, the f

With demand soaring for artifacts from the churches and castles of Europe and such historical sites

The European Commission Wednesday advocated a snail's pace liberalization of the European Union's po

Special interests may not be able to buy Rep. Bud Shuster, R-Pa., the powerful chairman of the House

A company that operated a pulp mill from the 1950s to 1993 in southeast Alaska's Tongass National Fo

Switzerland's consumer prices in July fell by 0.1 percent from June and rose by 2.0 percent year on

China is putting government supervisory boards in place at selected state companies as a trial for w

"It's hard to pinpoint exactly what is starting the current boom in PC (personal computer) sales, bu

REGIONAL BLOCS Pan-Asian Rail Privatization. Sept. 25-26. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Co

2 CURRENCY EXCHANGES OPEN DOORS IN CUBACuba opened its first two foreign exchange houses off

The next best thing to flying your own cargo plane is renting someone else's. Increasingly, that's w

Less than two months into the job, Heiner Wilkens knows exactly what he wants to do. The new

British Airways World Cargo is expanding its recently developed Americas' region "capacity optimizat

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Aug. 3, '94 - July 28, '95 (a graph) (2)

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A 15th-century coin found in waters off Florida's panhandle has led archaeologists to believe the wr

CHINESE STEEL FIRM BUILDING LARGE WHARFSHANGHAI, China - Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. sa

The number of registered unemployed in July should fall by more than 30,000 people from June, accord

HEMISPHERIC TRANSPORT GROUP TO MEET IN MIAMIMIAMI - Transport officials from the Ame

A Waterloo, Iowa, refrigerated carrier lost its plates, registration and operating authority under a

Arkansas Best Corp.'s $72.2 million offer for troubled Worldway Corp. got a lot of attention, but tr

Despite unexpected flexibility by China on several issues last week, Beijing's nine-year bid to join

KANSAS CITY EXCHANGE TO LAUNCH GAS CONTRACTKANSAS CITY, Mo. - After a year of develo

This summer's merciless heat wave keeps testing electrical supplies for air conditioning in much of

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German steelmakers will import a large volume of their coal supplies by the end of the decade becaus

Portugal's industrial production index for May showed output increased 3.4 percent from May 1994 and

Pacific Rim nations are preparing to make unexpectedly dramatic commitments this fall to open their

LEP Profit International Inc. believes it has the funds to make any needed changes in operations, no