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China's parliament has balked at a draft law that would empower the central bank to determine money

A Canadian company is trying to develop a mine nearby in British Columbia that may require a road ru

Generic drug companies that make discount knockoffs of brand name medicines are coming up against so

CHINA BOOSTS OUTPUT OF CAUSTIC SODABEIJING - The China Chemical Industry Information

The Army Corps of Engineers will dredge the West Pearl River for year-round barge traffic, Brig. Gen

As the dust settles after last week's chaotic devaluation of the Mexican peso, a pattern of winners

While a U.S. court hears a multistate challenge today to the federal law ending the economic regulat

NESTLE, CHINA PROVINCE BREW COFFEE VENTUREKUNMING, China - Nestle SA of Switzerland

CF MOTORFREIGHT FIRST TO HANDLE DEFENSE EDIMENLO PARK, Calif. - CF MotorFreight said

Dec. 23, 1994 RESELLER RACKUnleaded Mid- Premium-Unlead Pre

This city's second-largest employer is blaming a pair of free-trade pacts passed in the past two yea

Increasingly, companies styling themselves as the "quality people" are being asked by their clients,

International Petroleum Exchange Dec. 23, 1994Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

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As government agencies around the world step up inspections of ships visiting their national ports,

CWRA TO RAISE CURRENCY SURCHARGESAppreciation of certain Asian currencies against the U.S. d

Farmers Insurance Group, the third-largest auto and homeowners insurer in California, said last week

For the administration of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, less than a month old and battere

Tom Wakeman started out in the dredging business by approaching it as a scientific problem. Now he k

A need, a little ingenuity and a whole lot of buttonholes have worked to revolutionizethe way airpla

It may have been a bit slow getting started, but China's port city of Dalian is making up for lost t

It was an idyllic village. Today, the Chiwan petroleum supply base in this southern special economic

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

Friday, Dec. 23, 1994 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Friday Dec. 23, 1994 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

RUSSIAN OIL PRODUCTION DROPPED 11 PERCENT IN 1994MOSCOW - Russian crude oil output f

U.S. consumers will find Argentine beef and peanuts on their store shelves for the first time in the

Dec. 23, 1994 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Angry at the obsession of many Chinese consumers for foreign goods no matter what the cost, a top lo

P&O CONTAINERS (London) - Tim Harris, chairman, was appointed assistant managing director of Peninsu

After three sluggish years, Japan's personal computer market expanded 30 percent in 1994 and will co

The next chapter in the troubled history of Lloyd's of London is about to open. As the Feltrim Names

A Texas administrative-law judge has recommended an approximately 60 percent auto-insurance rate inc

The Netherlands' industrial orders index in November was unchanged from October at 102.9, the Centra

The Port of Amsterdam bristles when it's portrayed as David battling against Goliath in the form of

Corp. has begun marketing a new yield management system for airlines. The company said the s

Deregulation of intrastate trucking in Texas, long on shippers' holiday gift lists, appears on cours

With helpful computer hardware and software waiting in the wings, Brazil's congested import bureaucr

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 234.81 up 0.87 w