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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

Canadian importers of Italian pasta are bubbling with enthusiasm, while Canadian pasta producers are

The bullish view of the dollar, especially in Europe, will continue into the holiday week, but upwar

Dec. 23, 1994 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

Carriers will be getting a Christmas gift from the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. - a waive

When workers at Transamerica Leasing Co. inspected a trailer that had been involved in an accident t

Responding to the growing diversification of Arkansas Best Corp., chairman Robert A. Young III has a

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

Dec. 23, 1994 No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%

Georgia Power Co. has dropped opposition to an independent power plant in Houston County after winni

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency intends to delay the reformulated gasoline (RFG) program in

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

The plunge in the value of the Mexican peso last week is likely to lead to a sizable U.S. trade defi

GAMING INTERESTS HOME IN ON GARY, IND.GARY, Ind. - The prospect of riverboat casinos has mad

The Argentine government is getting ready to put portions of two multimillion-dollar petrochemical p

Dec. 23, 1994 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Moody's Investors Service is reviewing Prudential's "Aa2" insurancefinancial strength rating

The following business missions are scheduled for the coming months. The Journal of Commerceassumes

EU, MERCOSUR NATIONS PLEDGE COOPERATIONBRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union and th

REGIONAL BLOCS Practical Nafta: A Real World Strategic Analysis of Opportunities and

Canada's exporters to Mexico anticipate relatively limited negative impactfrom the peso's fr