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INDONESIA: US SHOULD FURTHER OPEN TEXTILESSINGAPORE - Indonesia would buy more cotto

The so-called Quad countries - the United States, European Union, Japan and Canada - Monday presente

1117 (Feb. 28, 1994) Previous day - 1117 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

The United States was willing to accept a 75 percent reduction in Japanese lumber tariffs instead of

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 227.45 off 0.93 which compares w

The Interstate Commerce Commission's contention that an undercharge claim is invalid if a bankrupt m

Last week's death of a crane operator has raised questions of plant safety at ABC Rail Corp., a make

Truck engine failures are a national problem caused by the new low-sulfur diesel mandated by the fed

A U.S. District Court judge here has delayed until March 22 a formal hearing into the challenge of t

OPEC CRUDE SUPPLIES PUT AT 25 MILLION B/DLONDON - The Organization of Petroleum Expo

Feb. 28, 1994 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Aetna Life and Casualty Co. said Monday it expects first-quarter earnings to be reduced by about $12

German and Iranian banks must now fill in the details of a refinancing agreement reached in principl

The Reserve Bank of India has raised the amount India's exporters of goods and services can now reta

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Orders for western German plant and machinery rose a real 2 percent in January from January 1993, ac

The U.S. investment firm Goldman, Sachs & Co. on Monday opened its first China office in Beijing.

France's unemployment rate in January stood at a seasonally adjusted 12.2 percent, unchanged from re

About 2 million workers in Romania went on a one-day strike Monday to protest lack of economic refor

The French state-owned shipping company Societe Nationale Corse Mediterranee (SNCM) has bowed to gov

Maritime and union officials were still trying this week to reach a final accord in a 4-month-old la

Say "Landstar" to a loading dock manager for most medium-sized companies in America and you are like

The Interstate Commerce Commission has officially reinstated motor carrier contract requirements it

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York and other sources, are selling r

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

The vessel-sharing agreement involving Sea-Land Service Inc., P&O Containers and Maersk Inc. in the

China will liberalize price controls on coal and petroleum this year as part of efforts to switch to

One workers compensation reform package has died in the Oklahoma House early last week, but Gov. Dav

U.K. gas producer and marketer British Gas PLC has assigned a 50 percent interest in Vietnam's offsh

On the North Atlantic sea, a shadowy weapon in Norway's foreign trade arsenal swims just beneath the

British Petroleum has found natural gas off Vietnam and will know toward the end of the year whether

India on Monday cut corporate taxes, import duties and interest rates to spur sluggish industrial gr

Brazil launches a new inflation index today, the second phase of Finance Minister Fernando Henrique

China is confident it will be accepted back into the world's main trade body by 1995, declaring it h

Monday, Feb. 28, 1994 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The Federal Railroad Administration has shaken up the leadership of a safety office that organized l

Japan is expected to import more copper from the Philippines in fiscal 1994-95 (April-March), under

COURT WON'T REVIEW NEGLIGENCE RULINGWASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Monday refused to

Capt. Frank Shellenbarger was elected the 68th president of the Marine Society of the City of New Yo

Truck drivers passing through Indiana have a better chance of winning the daily lottery than getting