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The U.S. dollar began the new year by surging at one point to a seven-and-a- half-month high against

Malaysia's consumer prices in November were up 5.3 percent from a year earlier, according to the Sta

DEATH TOLL RISES TO 25 IN MEXICAN BUS CRASHMEXICO CITY - A bus overturned near the l

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Polish coal miners began returning to work from a three-week strike Monday following an agreement th

Gold hit a seven-year low Monday after being pushed down by speculative Middle East selling and by m

During 1992, the 21-market CRB Futures Index continued the downtrend that began in 1990 and ended th

Like many in Northwest Indiana, U.S. Rep. Peter Visclosky and Rep.-elect Steve Buyer don't agree on

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Police and protesters drew battle lines in this small Japanese port town late Monday ahead of the ar

The International Longshoremen's Association and their stevedoring employers in Houston are negotiat

Funeral services will be held today for Capt. Robert M. Calder, executive director of the Boston Shi

British exporters are selling sulfur dyes in the United States at less than fair value or dumping pr

As of Jan. 4, 1993 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

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Australia will have no problem meeting its share of Japan's 1993 milling wheat needs despite rains t

Shipping companies carried a record 850 million tons of cargo between the United States and foreign

The Port of Baltimore is starring in a documentary that airs next week on Maryland Public Television

Dashing the hopes of foreign tanker owners backing an alternative oil spill prevention design, a lon

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. plans to add 40 new General Electric locomotives to its fl

Prosecutors hoping to convict the Indonesian captain of the M.V. Manyoshi Maru and its eight crew me

It was Mexico's curse, they used to say, to be "so far from God. . . so close to the United States."

Business conditions for the U.S. textile industry showed steady improvement in 1992, according to th

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Substantially more of China's coal output sold domestically this year will be at market, rather than

DU PONT TO TAKE RESTRUCTURING CHARGEWILMINGTON, Del. - E.I. du Pont de Nemours Co. said Mond

Troubled Olympia & York Developments Ltd. has transferred ownership of one of its prime Canadian pro

REPORT: INDIA RIOTS HURT SOYBEAN MEAL EXPORTSHAMBURG, Germany - Indian December soybean meal

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After a very slow start for its first round, the Chicago Board of Trade unveiled a broad new list of

Friday's meeting in Austin, Texas, between President-elect Bill Clinton and Mexican President Carlos

Until U.S. Marines arrived in Somalia last month, the busiest airline in the ravaged country was Mia

A mission of eight multilateral and bilateral donors sponsored by the World Bank recently pledged $1

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

TEMPORARY DUTIES LEVIED ON JAPAN TOOLSBlack and Decker Inc. said a U.S. Commerce Department