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Aug. 9, 1993 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

Hundreds of Poles queued outside what used to be a drab communist-style department store when McDona

Intending to silence any lingering doubts about the viability of recent clinical trials, Boulder-bas

Japan's Sanwa Bank Ltd. wants to increase its presence in California by buying a big bank with hundr

UNITED KINGDOM LIFTS ANGOLA ARMS EMBARGOLONDON - The United Kingdom said Monday that

If Alexei Starozhenko can't make it as a private farmer in Russia, then what hope is there for the r

Aug. 9, 1993 Copper Total, 111,694. Gold Total, .2,448,369.Silver Total, .277

The nation's life and health insurers paid $1.4 billion in AIDS-related claims in 1992, according to

Provisional liquidators for the failed "Kwelm" insurance companies plan to publish a "scheme of arra

Commercial deals are growing enormously only a year after South Korea and China established full dip

Until the prolonged strike at Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea's largest carmaker, the automobile indu

Transportation News Ticker The dry cargo and tanker fixtures listed herewith and compiled in

Bank of Taiwan cut its prime lending rate by 0.125 percentage point on Monday, raising hopes other T

There was a time when the rest of the world saw the New Zealand economy as simply a smaller, colder

Federal legislation to limit collections of the harbor maintenance tax picked up key support as Rep.

China's industrial production surged 25.1 percent in January-June over the same period in 1992, the

Alexander Polanski, a pilot for Air Ukraine, is lucky to fly once a month. Almost all the airline's

Canadian National is predicting a loss for its 1993 operations after second- quarter results showed

Textile Quotas to Watch as of Aug. 7, 1993* Country Category Description

Domestic steel producers will continue to push strongly for relief from imports, but their attempts

PETROLEUM HEAT & POWER CO. (Stamford, Conn.) - Donald B. Craft and Angelo Catania were named co-dire

'QUALITY INITIATIVE' TO BE UNVEILED TODAYThe National Association of Insurance Women-NYC wil

Merck & Co., the U.S. marketing agent for drugs developed by Sweden's Astra AB, will spin off its in

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural ServiceAgric

Admitting the practice has seriously harmed China, trade officials vow a renewed drive to stamp out

In another bid to show that it is serious about blocking illegal textile transshipments, a governmen

The AFL-CIO has asked U.S. officials to rescind Costa Rica's special trade privileges because of the

Marine hull, cargo and liability insurers are turning to new loss-prevention initiatives to fight so

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) Aug. 9, 1993Bid AskedCopper_G

Canadian Pacific Ltd. has cleaned up contaminated soil in British Columbia, but still faces a Sept.

German airline Deutsche Lufthansa AG Sunday offered fellow carrier Austrian Airlines a cooperation d

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) aims to cut its workforce dramatically to make the formerly state-r

Are the United States and Canada, which form the world's single largest bilateral trading relationsh

Monday, Aug. 9, 1993 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York, are selling rates among trading

The U.S. dollar rose slightly Monday against the Japanese yen on speculation that the Bank of Japan

Traders on the borders of West Africa's CFA franc zone say they expect business to adapt to a ban on

France's new conservative culture minister, echoing the anti-Americanism of his Socialist predecesso

U.S. Commissioner of Customs George Weise appointed a top official to coordinate the agency's implem