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Situated in the middle of Eastern Europe, Slovakia is marketing itself as the ideal foreign base of

Before people endorse plans for an underground coal mine in southern Utah's Kaiparowits Plateau, the

Louisiana-Pacific Corp., the building products manufacturer, reported its best quarter ever, setting

1847 (Oct. 19, 1994) Previous day - 1845 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

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Barge rates are rising slightly in America's heartland, as the record crop in corn and soybeans begi

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U.S. steelmaker Inland Steel Industries Inc. is eyeing possible trade deals with communist Cuba shou

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

Pre-positioned land- and ship-stored stocks of weapons, food and other essential equipment were the

MATSUSHITA REJECTS MCA BID FOR CONTROLTOKYO - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. sai

Commerce officials in Mexico have left in place huge final trade penalties on a wide range of Chines

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

China, seeking to eliminate poverty nationwide by the year 2000, will hand out $1.17 billion a year

The global market for telecommunications services and equipment registered sales of $575 billion in

Alaska's 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill left little-noticed but costly residue: tarnished scientific re

Behind the closed doors of last fall's Communist Party plenum, senior leader Deng Xiaoping bristled

As of Oct. 19, 1994 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

South Koreans are no mean graduates of the export-and-prosper school, so when they start describing

HAPAG-LLOYD (AMERICA) INC. (Piscataway, N.J.) - Martin Von Beoeczy was named director of the company

Rains that started killer floods in southeastern Texas eased early Wednesday. But evacuations contin

Aviation insurance rates are stabilizing after years of double-digit increases. As 75 percen

DHL Worldwide Express is quietly but rapidly expanding into the heavy-freight business. "It'

France is heading for a serious confrontation with European airlines seeking to operate services to

The U.S. dollar slid to a three-month low against the Japanese yen Wednesday after the release of th

Producer prices in eastern Germany rose 0.2 percent in August from July and were 1 percent higher th

After the April Teamsters strike skewed less-than-truckload (LTL) companies' second-quarter earnings

The New York Mercantile Exchange will extend by one hour after-hours trading of natural-gas futures

Oct. 19, 1994 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

The U.S.-North Korean accord is likely to bring an early relaxation of South Korea's economic embarg

Freight rates for bulk cargoes of coal and iron ore are racing ahead as Asian and European steel mil

The door is now open for European importers and exporters to seek refundsfrom Atlantic shipp

(1) DAILY INDEX * Annual Smoothed percent +16.4310/13 107.210/14 107.210

ASSOCIATED AIR FREIGHT (Hyde Park, N.Y. ) - James Kent Redford was named branch ocean manager with t

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. said on Wednesday it is willing to connect its domestic call li

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The U.S. State Department said this week that the risk of plague infection to international traveler

MORE JOBS TO GO AT ONTARIO HYDROVANCOUVER, British Columbia - Ontario Hydro announced it wil

Investigators probing a tanker intercepted in the Persian Gulf last week believe it was carrying dis