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U.S. companies' share of World Bank-financed contracts in developing countries is on the decline, ac

A politically weakened George Bush delayed part of a U.S. aid package for Nicaragua last year. Presi

Further cuts in import duties were decreed late Tuesday, with Finance Minister Manmohan Singh declar

MULTIPORT SHIP AGENCIES NETWORK (Rotterdam, Netherlands) - Don Waheed, president of Biehl & Co., was

Highland Intermodal, a Canadian Pacific company, signed a deal with the Toronto Harbour Commission t

Wednesday May 5, 1993 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

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Luc Montagnier, the French discoverer of the AIDS virus, is researching a new lead for a vaccine aga

The coal industry and others charged with guiding energy policy must seek out and separate environme

SHELL REFINING TO BOOST MALAYSIAN INVESTMENTKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Shell Refining

Lucky Metals has reduced by 15 percent its forecast for South Korea's 1993 domestic copper consumpti

Rising demand for petroleum in China will boost the country's requirement for imported crude oil to

Negotiations began Wednesday between the West Coast dockworkers union and waterfront management for

The railway systems in eastern and western Germany posted a combined deficit of 14.7 billion deutsch

The Teamsters Union rejected a request by Lewis Truck Lines Inc. for permission to haveits 125 union

A key House chairman this week came out in support of the idea of a pilot program to track the statu

Whirlpool Corp., the world's largest maker of home appliances, is taking the European single market

Guinness PLC has called "Time, please" on its little fleet of boats, replacing one of Dublin's most

General American Life Insurance Co. gave birth Tuesday to a public company, Reinsurance Group of Ame

The Senate agreed Tuesday to make the Environmental Protection Agency a Cabinet-level department wit

After decades of deadlock, lawmakers Tuesday unveiled a plan that will allow the Senate to vote on l

First-quarter volume at the Port of Hamburg fell 10.2 percent from a year earlier to 15.1 million me

VENEZUELA AND TAIWAN CITED FOR DUMPINGHelical spring lock washers from Taiwan and Venezuelan

Indonesia, targeted by Washington for allowing rampant piracy of tapes and computer software and lim

India's privately owned shipping lines are moving quickly to expand their fleets, even ahead of prop

May 4, 1993 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

Genentech Inc. is expected to enjoy a healthy boost in sales, earnings and R& D spending now that a

John Naranjo thinks he knows why coffee lost the battle for the taste buds of American drinkers to s

Chevron Shipping Co. wants to bring its formerly unionized officers into the ranks of management, bu

A U.S. district court jury in Alabama has awarded defunct Meridian Ship Inc. $10.5 million in a ship

Most U.S.-flag steamship lines will postpone orders for new containerships, despite American Preside

The Panhandle Eastern natural gas pipeline made history Saturday when it became the first U.S. natur

NEW SHIP ORDERS SOAR AT SOUTH KOREAN YARDSSEOUL, South Korea - The country's shipyar

Some 200 U.S. companies are expected to attend the "Made in USA Expo" in Johannesburg in September.<

International Petroleum Exchange May 4, 1993Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)__

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Seven environmental groups todaywill offer to support the proposed North American free-trade agreeme

Intermodal trucking operator J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. said Tuesday the company aims to put

Gold, the precious yellow metal so valued by the underworld, now can be traced back to its source.

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