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Friday, May 26, 1995 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

China's State Planning Commission has announced a cut in the sales tax for gold ornaments in a bid t

Gross domestic product in the Netherlands grew 3.4 percent in the first quarter of 1995 compared wit

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

Cuban cigars still are revered by many smokers as the best that money - and at times influence - can

A story appearing on Page 8B Thursday should have said Evergreen Marine Corp. still provided service

For the week ended May 20, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 15

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Washington lawmakers have rediscovered the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Instead of thinkingof it as

ALUMAX TO STUDY VOLGOGRAD UPGRADEMOSCOW - Alumax Inc. is to draft a feasibility stud

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150per ton lots &

A Washington state marine safety advisory group charged with developing cargo and passenger vessel o

Brazilian oil refining Thursday was 620,000 barrels, up from the previous day's figure of 440,000 an

The Marlboro man took to the air this year, after the Jan. 17 earthquake in Japan heavily damaged th

Three Weeks Ended May 20, 1995, vs. Similar 1994 Period Cars CarsLoaded Loaded

More than 20 foreign companies, including Royal Dutch/Shell and one from New Zealand, have expressed

TWO EXCHANGES EYE CBT FARM TRADE PLANKANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Kansas City Board of Trade and t

Russia and Belarus have agreed to remove customs checkpoints on their mutual border, moving the two

Despite the decline in world coffee-futures prices, farmers in Vietnam and Indonesia don't seem to b

The European Union will attempt to conclude a new fishing treaty with Morocco this week to allow mor

India's external debt as of March 31 was $90.72 billion, vs. $90.45 billion six months earlier, the

Norasia Line and Mediterranean Shipping Co. are holding talks about a partnership in the Europe-Asia

CODAY TO STAY AT PMA THROUGH NEXT YEARSAN FRANCISCO - William E. Coday, president of

Multimedia has become the buzzword of the computer industry and almost essential for any presentatio

Interstates 29 and 35 should be officially designated North American Free Trade Agreement superhighw

Six Latin American and Caribbean countries - Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, El Salvador, and Trinida

President Fidel Castro's reforms, although headed in the right direction, are far too slow to help C

The Clinton administration will press other nations to adopt "model" business principles governing c

REGIONAL BLOCS Venezuela: New Agenda for Progress. June 1. New York. Contact: Rosema

U.S. publishers Prentice Hall and Harcourt Brace won a court-mediated cash settlement and an apology

Smokers of large, premium-quality cigars finally have brought some fire back into the long-cooling c

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

Canada's second-largest airline, Calgary-based Canadian Airlines Corp., has told employees they must

Austerity programs in Mexico are yielding early successes, prompting analysts to look ahead and deba

Nepal's communist government has decided to penalize carpet-weavers who employ child workers by tell

Unions representing two of the United States' most import-beleaguered sectors have declared war agai

New York Mercantile Exchange - May 26, 1995 Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High L

International Petroleum Exchange May 26, 1995Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)_

The Baltic Freight Index is a daily indicator of world bulk shipping freight rate levels.

"No smoking" does not mean no tobacco for shippers in the United States. While anti-smoking