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PRICE-FIXING SETTLEMENT GETS FTC APPROVALWASHINGTON - The Federal Trade Commission h

The director of the National Institutes of Health is opposing a proposed agreement that would give S

France will press for action against illegal textile imports at this week's European Community summi

A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge ordered Julien Hohenberg's personal holdings seized and sold to satisf

Italy's Ferruzzi Group, the family firm that mushroomed into a multinational then buckled under its

The Supreme Court Monday let stand a $4 million punitive damage award against Brown & Root Inc. in a

The House Appropriations Committee has given a boost to downstream Missouri River users that don't w

The South Carolina State Ports Authority wants to expand one of its two foreign trade zones to encom

Testimony in a case involving an alleged conspiracy among state pilot trainees to cheat on their fed

Work is under way to create an export-import bank in China, described by one official as intended to

Forecasts for South Africa's sugar crop have been revised down to between just 1.2 million and 1.3 m

The Lloyd's of London insurance market, about to report a record loss that could ruin many of its me

Everybody wants a raise (you reading this, boss?). The usual rule in asking for one is start high an

Triple Crown Services Inc. of Fort Wayne, Ind., has ordered 200 53-foot intermodal units with interi

South Korea, concerned with the rapid spread of labor unrest through the giant Hyundai Group, said M

California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi borrowed a line from singer Smokey Robinson, tellin

INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES' STEEL OUTPUT INCHES UPBRUSSELS, Belgium - Industrialized c

MERCK HIKES PRICES ON 23 DRUGS BY 4.2 PERCENTMerck and Co., amid intense scrutiny over possi

1518 (June 21, 1993) Previous day - 1522 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

The Navy's top admiral is fighting a push by the Clinton administration to slash the number of U.S.

PROBE BEGINS IN COLLISION OF TANKER, CONTAINERSHIPAn investigation was under way Mon

With Southeast Asia and the subcontinent of India continuing to expand in international trade, Neptu

While foreign money has poured into China in response to official blandishments, Chinese authorities

European governments, expecting $100 billion to $150 billion in privatization stock issues up to 199

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 205.50 off 0.08 which compares w

Kuwait has selected Union Carbide Corp. to construct a $2.3 billion petrochemical complex, signaling

As of June 21, 1993 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

SLATER TAKES OFFICE AS FHWA ADMINISTRATORRodney Slater has officially taken office as admini

Britain's visible trade deficit with countries outside the European Community fell to UK769 million

Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his center-right coalition brushed aside protests by the country's unions

U.S. importers, exporters and investors doing business in South Africa or - more likely - thinking a

G-7 MINISTERS AGREE TO CUT RUSSIAN FUNDThe Group of 7 industrial nations agreed to set up a

June 21, 1993 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Pakistan's cotton textile industry appears to be in the grip of crisis, with some sectors shutting d

Campenon Bernard SGE, a French firm, was declared the winner Friday of a competition to design and b

Scrambling to protect profits under President Clinton's plan for health-care reform, some drug compa

The controversial expansion of Syntex Chemicals Inc. has been put on indefinite hold, but the debate

Nine years ago, Stepan Pachikov hadn't even seen a personal computer. Today, his company - P

An inquiry is under way into a full-scale nuclear alert, which was called at a British Polaris subma