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Friday, Feb. 10, 1995 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The U.S. dollar will follow in the footsteps of the U.S. bond market in the week ahead, currency tra

An acceleration in the U.S. producer price index for finished goods is possible in coming months wit

The Chinese government and Pittsburgh-based Custom Coals Co. reached a final agreement to build what

REGIONAL BLOCS Vietnam-American Chamber of Commerce: Business Opportunities in South

Canada's Noranda Mining and Exploration Inc. plans to invest C$84 million (US$60 million) to bring t

Three Weeks Ended Feb. 4, 1995, vs. Similar 1994 Period Cars CarsLoaded Loaded

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

Kentaro Kawamura, 62, was named president of Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Japan's largest steamship company.

American President Cos., in the midst of a costly reorganization and facing increased expenses assoc

Feb. 10, 1995 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

Acutely aware of public and party disgust with unprecedented corruption in China, Jiang Zemin is try

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All the former communist nations of Central Europe are expected to post economic growth in 1995 for

Financial markets in Mexico did not immediately react to President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon's m

"On a cash basis during 1994, Washington paid more in interest to the capital market than it borrowe

South Africa's Deputy President F.W. de Klerk backed an Indian Ocean rim trading pact to counter the

The swelling ranks of Chinese insurance companies received a new member last week when Dazhong Insur

EX-OFFICIAL IN MASS. FACES AN ETHICS FINEKatherine Doughty, former Massachusetts insurance c

Canada Life signed a purchase agreement last week to buy the individual insurance operations of Manu

The financial burden of paying for claims for asbestosis and pollution in the U.S. will fall on Lloy

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Russia's Federal Food Fund bought only 2.26 million metric tons (2.5 million short tons) of grain in

With more and more trains rolling through the months-old Channel Tunnel, its operators say things ar

The Burlington Northern-Santa Fe rail merger will encounter more difficulty clearing the second hurd

A layoff of track workers at Burlington Northern Railroad has touched off the first labor-management

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Trade differences between Malaysia and Singapore, and the United States and Venezuela, over the impo

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

Feb. 10, 1995 No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley

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When Deng Xiaoping finally "goes to meet Marx," as the Chinese euphemism has it, the first question

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Foreign investors, nervous about a recent wave of militant labor unrest in Sri Lanka, are demanding

Ceylon Shipping Corp. and Air Lanka are among state-owned enterprises in Sri Lanka likely to be part

For quotes on National, Midwestern or other markets, call the CBT trading floor during trading hours

Insurance and reinsurance association representatives will meet by teleconference this week to figur

The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to declare Switzerland free of three diseases that inflict