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The Port of Baltimore will gain its first direct outbound service to the Far East in over five years

The Yugoslav National Bank, pressed by hyperinflation that renders bank notes worthless within days

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For the week ended Dec. 25, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

Air express carriers extended their banner 1993 performance through the peak pre-holiday shipping se

A Bangladeshi draft law on monopolies and restrictive and unfair trade practices is causing concern

A state official said the insurance industry's request for a 2.9 percent reduction in 1994 rates for

Plans by Indonesia, a ranking oil and gas exporter, to enter the nuclear- power age took a step forw

Ohio Edison Co. realized the second unit of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant would continue to drain it

The continuing push toward more competitive natural gas markets has created a growing need for regul

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The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 226.16 off 0.40 which compares

Japanese business leaders predict a hard year ahead with the economy in the doldrums and a governmen

China built ships totaling 1.3 million deadweight tons last year, half of them for export, Wang Rong

Two numbers were reversed in the "Enter the Nafta" graphic on Page 1 in Monday's edition. U.S.-to-Ca

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The White House said Monday President Clinton was not planning to announce any major new aid package

Blue Shield of California, one of the state's biggest health insurers, said last week it would exten

Light, sweet crude oil for February delivery was moderately higher late Monday amid a report that OP

The use of corn sweetener in food and beverages is on the rise, exceeding the use of cane and beet s

Indonesian coffee exporters are expected to announce by mid-January the financing method for their c

As 1994 dawned in one of America's most polluted cities, smog became a marketable commodity to be bo

Spanish financial instruments are likely to enter a period of greater uncertainty in 1994 as markets

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ACE SELLS ITS STAKE IN CENTRE RE TO ZURICHHAMILTON, Bermuda - Excess insurer ACE Ltd

Mobil Corp. has been granted exploration rights on the last prime block onVietnam's southern

MEXICAN FORCES SEEK ARMED INDIAN REBELSSAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico - Governme

GERMAN FIRMS PREDICT DROP IN PRODUCT SALESHAMBURG, Germany - German domestic sales o

Jan. 1 saw the dawn of trade arrangements that, ostensibly, should make it easier to buy, sell and p

For Royce Laboratories, a company whose problems once appeared virtually intractable, the brighter d

In a dramatic challenge to the International Longshoremen's Association's traditionally rock-solid h

A management buyout and an employee profit-sharing plan are helping a regional truck company in Cali

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The U.S. dollar rose Monday as a bigger-than-expected advance in the December purchasing managers' i

The Puerto Rico Justice Department said it will investigate allegations that Puerto Rico Marine Mana

A British Columbia lawyer who ran a successful campaign for a parliamentary candidate is the new cha

Additional foreign investment in the Czech Republic should wait until the country's privatization pr

With exports, foreign investment and construction all booming, officials and outsiders alike agree t