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This week's relatively problem-free election of ruling party candidate Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon

"The era of politicians-symbols is coming to an end, and now the time has come for professionals in

OPEC MINISTERS' MEET SET FOR NOV. 21 IN BALILONDON - OPEC's next ministerial confere

Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao pays his first visit to Vietnam and Singapore next month, signalin

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COMMERCE MAKES DEAL ON PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPERWASHINGTON - The Commerce Department has dr

LIGHT GRADES SEEN SHOWING LITTLE STRENGTHTOKYO - With all the clamor about their str

Anheuser-Busch Inc. is hoping beer drinkers overseas will forsake their local brews and instead say,

Monsanto Co. has promised to pay $1 million to whoever comes up with a way to recycle ammonia in che

Hong Kong faces stern challenges to its prime - and lucrative - role in China's foreign trade. Most

Several Russian governmental bodies, commercial banks and gold industry enterprises said they were f

A seafarers union has ended a two-day walkout on a vessel owned by a Philadelphia tanker operator, a

Finance Minister Masayoshi Takemura said Tuesday U.S.-Japan framework trade talks on insurance "have

When Claudia Cota first started exporting jewelry to the United States from this steep-hilled town w

The Teamsters union is suspending a local president because of alleged organized crime connections a

Tower Group International Inc. said it has acquired the U.S. operations ofTrans Global Logis

FEDERAL EXPRESS TO ADD CARGO FLIGHTS IN JAPANOSAKA, Japan - Federal Express Corp. sa

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Juan Bosco Marti gambled $2.5 million to retool and restructure his textile company for Mexico's new

MG CORP. (New York) - David MacKenzie was named president of MG Corp.'s MG Natural Gas Corp. subsidi

UZBEKISTAN EXPECTS GOOD COTTON HARVESTMOSCOW - Uzbekistan, the former Soviet Union's

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

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 228.49 off 1.28 wh

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

Missouri's insurance department has asked regional insurers to bid on running and assuming the finan

Moody's Investors Service assigned ratings to the universal shelf registration of Orion Capital Corp

Securities analysts, economists and even some folks in the railroad industry are beginning to questi

The president of the Puerto Rico Government Development Bank, Marcos Rodriguez-Ema, has told a Puert

Chrysler Corp. will quiz its Chinese joint-venture partner over claims that an associated company is

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The inclusion of a social clause in international trade agreements could defuse a rise in protection

A new survey of intermodal equipment trends shows a 20 percent year-to-year increase inthe rail-base

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

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

The petroleum industry soon may be using bacteria as a low-cost way to remove acid rain-producing su

Indiana coal production totaled 655,000 tons during the week ending Aug. 13, up 18 percent from the

The government has given Petronas, the state-run energy company, greater freedom and flexibility to

Starbucks Coffee Co. will be opening a distribution center and coffee bean roasting operation in Yor

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