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Three days of high-level trade talks will open today between Russia and China, with the latter stres

Tobacco spells trouble for the European Union. Tobacco is a backwater industry in the 12-nat

If finger-drumming ever becomes an Olympic event, the justices of Russia's highest court might prove

Chubb Insurance Group, Munich Reinsurance Group and Geico Corp. retained their "A++" ratings from A.

President Boris Yeltsin signed a package of economic decrees Monday aimed at boosting tax collection

Monday May 23, 1994 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

Joint ventures in Asia will play a key role in Saudi Arabia's attempt to turn its state oil firm Ara

The New South Wales Grains Board has launched forward contracts to canola growers offering more cont

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

A high-level delegation is in Scandinavia this week to seek joint ventures and seek technology for I

Environmentalists are focusing on why a protective boom failed to prevent oilfrom leaking in

New York Mercantile Exchange - May 20, 1994 Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High L

Atlantic Richfield Co. will "transfer" its stake in an oil field in Indonesia to a state-run Chinese

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Rules on the import and distribution of lumber and construction materials, as well as on land use, s

U.S. trade officials are reviving an idea advanced last February to jump- start stalled trade talks

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It was a tough nut to crack, but U.S. and Indian officials settled a trade dispute threatening one o

Insurance damage caused by natural and man-made catastrophes in 1993 worldwide totaled $11.5 billion

PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP (Des Moines, Iowa) - David Drury, president of the company, willassume the

Vietnam's industrial output increased by 12.1 percent in the first four months of 1994 over the same

China is still buying oil products from foreign markets, even after the government-imposed ban on ne

By recently abandoning overnight freighter operations, Air Canada can concentrate on profit centers

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Indian coffee growers, shedding five decades of state controls, are riding an international price bo

The following is the list of bunker prices obtained during the course of week ending May 20, 1994. U

Industrial output in China rose by a year-on-year 17.9 percent, the State Statistical Bureau said, n

HEINZ CHIEF DESIRES INVESTMENT IN S. AFRICAJOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Heinz food m

Panama, whose national ship register last year overtook the Liberian merchant fleet to become the la

Insurance company decisions based on geography are being painted as a civil rights issue, rather tha

The bottom line is that they want to cut down more trees, whether they are in Canada or the United S

Pakistan plans to sell off billions of dollars worth of state enterprises in the next year in what o

Total quality management, like the fervor over international trade opportunities, is booming in Lati

International Petroleum Exchange May 20, 1994Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)_

FRONTIER DIRECTORS APPROVE STOCK SPLITROCK HILL, N.Y. - The Frontier Insurance Group's board

The University of Wyoming has moved to overturn a federal court decision that said a subsidiary of T

Half of the rice crop was lost in two central Vietnamese provinces because of the cold weather and t

Three days after 7,700 of its employees voted to unionize, USAir announcedplans to farm out

Taiwan's gross national product grew 5.46 percent in January-March 1994, compared with 6.29 percent

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