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Defense contractors in Southern California are unable to move into the more rough-and-tumble commerc

STRONG '93 MARKET BOOSTS NAVISTAR RESULTSStrong demand for trucks and engines drove Navistar

The problems of late payments to companies worsened in 1993, according to 65 percent of companies su

Re-exports continued to set the pace of Hong Kong's trade last year, as they have for several years,

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

COLOMBIA'S GAVIRIA SEEKS TO LEAD OASBOGOTA, Colombia - Colombian President Cesar Gav

Former chemists at Hauser Chemical Research Inc. apparently used secret technology from Hauser to fu

Officials in southern Guangdong said the province's gross domestic product last year amounted to 315

ESTIMATES CONFIRM DROP IN WORLD GRAIN OUTPUTLONDON - Latest estimates confirm a shar

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 227.09 off 0.13 which compare

Feb. 17, 1994 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Russia will need a total of 113.9 million metric tons (125.29 million short tons) of grain in 1994,

CONSUMER PRICES Change (adjusted) Dec. Jan.Food +0.5% -0.1%Hou

Thursday, Feb. 17, 1994 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Michel Camdessus, International Monetary Fund managing director, may visit Moscow early next week in

A World Bank unit has approved financing of $62.24 million to build and operate a 530-bed general se

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

The U.S. dollar pushed broadly higher Thursday after the Bundesbank surprised the market by lowering

Despite intense U.S. pressure, Canada is expected to refuse today to replace either of two panelists

South Korea's five oil companies are considering lowering the domestic naphtha price by linking it t

The U.S. Trade Development Agency is accelerating its trade promotion push in Latin America with a m

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The government intends to pare down and reopen the country's second-largest bank, which collapsed la

The possible turmoil associated with upcoming multiracial elections in South Africa left buyers and

In one of the first concrete indications of how the dispute between the Trans- Atlantic Agreement an

New help is on the way to blind people, urban poor and lepers in India. The World Bank has a

Japan on Thursday signaled that it may be willing to budge first in the standoff over market access

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

The Australian wool industry will consider suspending auction sales next week if there is no resolut

Uzbekistan has taken unprecedented steps toward increasing foreign investment, relaxing trade restri

380 CST bunker fuel, purchased at Rotterdam, Netherlands. In dollars per metric ton (1 metri

As of Feb. 17, 1994 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

Feb. 17, 1994 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Mexico saw record high foreign investment in 1993, but financial experts warn that the country must

(1) DAILY INDEX Annual Smoothed percent -0.052/11 95.82/14 95.42/15

JAPAN CONSIDERS CURBS ON TEXTILE IMPORTSTOKYO - Japan may restrict imports of textil

Moscow's Oil Exchange has drawn up a strategy for the Russian oil market in the immediate future, ba

In the wake of the recent lifting of the U.S. embargo on Vietnam, Kerr-McGee Corp. on Wednesday said

GM PROBES RUPTURES OF NATURAL GAS TANKSDETROIT - General Motors Corp. said Wednesday

There is a growing fear among senior budget and trade officials that a new world trade agreement cou