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Wednesday, Aug. 3, 1994 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Switzerland's final unemployment rate in June was unrevised at 4.6 percent, down from 4.8 percent in

U.S. medical equipment exporters are unfazed by Italy's ailing economy. Though expenditures

Five years after revolutions formally ended Communist-style monopolies in Eastern Europe, Romania ha

STOCKER RESIGNS POST AT SHIPBUILDERS COUNCILWASHINGTON - John J. Stocker resigned We

Rerouting barges normally headed to the Gulf of Mexico could prove costly to companies that ship alo

Employees at the headquarters of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. will be told by Aug. 22 whether they will

Global air freight traffic in June surged by 16 percent over the same month in 1993, the Internation

American Warehouse Association. Aug. 4-6. 1994 Marketing Conference. Marriott Chicago Hotel, Chicago

RESERVE INTERNATIONAL SERVICES INC. (Cleveland) - Michael W. Gelsinger was named executivevice presi

LEADING INDICATORS Index tracks 11 economic statistics; seasonally adjustedMontly percent ch

The U.S. dollar climbed through resistance against the yen but remained underpressure agains

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

CHINA CLAIMS SUCCESS IN COPYRIGHT CRACKDOWNBEIJING - China Wednesday trumpeted the s

Marsh & McLennan Cos. appointed Philip L. Wroughton vice chairman, a position that has been vacant s

As of Aug. 3, 1994 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

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

ZURICH-AMERICAN INSURANCE GROUP (Schaumburg, Ill.) - Bryan S. Reid III will lead the casualty depart

RAINS EXTINGUISH FIRE AT PORGERA MINEPORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea - Heavy rains ha

GLOSSARY AR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

The 8,197-deadweight-ton freighter Johanna Schulte was being towed by a tug Wednesday after drifting

An environmentally correct solution to the Port of Oakland's longstanding dredging problem is off th

(1) DAILY INDEX Annual Smoothed percent +15.567/28 104.67/29 104.78/1

U.S. inventories of gasoline fell 4.4 million barrels during the week ended July 29 compared with th

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, on a 17-4 vote, Wednesday approved the Clinton ad

Shares of American Cyanamid Co. were lower Wednesday after soaring in late off-exchange electronic t

Aug. 3, 1994 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

"Ship, Sea and Sky: The Marine Art of James Edward Buttersworth." Through Sept. 5. New York. Exhibit

A unit of Bankers Trust was selected Wednesday to privatize the state shipping line Navieras de Puer

In a major policy change, the Immigration and Naturalization Service said that until further notice,

Still smarting from the Senate's rejection of a controversial proposal to fundamentallyalter U.S. co

The past five months have seen many policy changes in China's oil industry, but one strong theme rem

Led by a sharp rise in rail earnings, Canadian Pacific Ltd. reported second- quarter net profit of C

China's economic reforms are yielding better results, but the economic struggle continues, the count

The Federal Trade Commission permitted the Sun Co.'s purchase of the neighboring Chevron Philadelphi

Vice President Al Gore's message of free market reform to the new president of Ukraine has fallen on

Wednesday Aug. 3, 1994 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

OPEC stuck close to its production quota in July, but this was due more to the oil workers' strike i

Officials at Uganda's Ministry of Finance say a new tax on coffee is being implemented despite prote

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 233.16 off 0.53 w