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The World Bank says some of the reforms and liberalization in Bangladesh have yielded a "remarkably

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British Petroleum and four other companies have agreed to study the feasibility of a second offshore

For the week ended March 25, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled

The global information superhighway will be a private toll road, not a public works project financed

United Parcel Service reported Friday that its net income last year rose 16.5 percent, to $943.3 mil

CHINA OFFICIALS OK FUNDS FOR STEEL PLANTCHENGDU, China - Officials of southwestern Sichuan p

Buyers and sellers of crude oil should link long-term contract prices to the futures market, rather

A bill to merge the Securities and Exchange Commission with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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BASF AG, the German chemicals, plastics and pharmaceuticals company, said 1995 earnings will be sign

RUSSIAN BANKS HOPE TO BUY DOMESTIC GOLDDomestic commercial banks are ready to buy about half

General Motors Corp. said Thursday it signed an agreement to sell and service its Opel passenger car

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The Federal Maritime Commission could accept the elimination of rate filing by freight consolidators

SHIP ORDERS EXPECTED TO HIT $30 BILLION A YEARLONDON - Shipowners will need to find

The Journal of Commerce enters a new era today under the emblem of The Economist Group of London.

The launch of Lee jeans in two cities and Kellogg Co.'s nationwide rollout of cereals set the stage

Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles launched a state campaign to urge Congress to allow oil drilling in a natio

As of Mar. 31, 1995 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained

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

The rollback on freight rates charged by liners plying the North Atlantic is threatening to leave ag

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York and other sources, are selling r

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American farmers will plant less corn and soybeans this spring after producing all-time record large

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The Tennessee Valley Authority has added another $100 million to its half- billion-dollar securities

Colombian coffee growers last week threatened to organize a national strike to demand emergency meas

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Emery Worldwide announced Friday that General Motors Corp., its largest commercial customer, has ext

Financially troubled MK Rail Corp. of Pittsburgh said Friday it is throttling down its ambitious, hi

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has identified two Canadian companies that cou

Japanese construction orders in February were down 2.9 percent from a year earlier at 1.360 trillion

The concept of chain stores may not seem particularly innovative in much of the world, but for China

SPHERE DRAKE HOLDINGS SEES NET INCOME RISELONDON - Sphere Drake Holdings Ltd. report

Britain's official export-credit agency, the Export Credits Guarantee Department, has introduced an

Canadian Pacific Ltd. now owns the North Atlantic shipping business of the ailing Cast Group, thereb