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European Community energy ministers failed to agree Monday on measures to boost competition in North

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

A little more than a year ago, Dominica soap maker Phillip Nassief set his sights on South Florida.<

Russian President Boris Yeltsin Monday signed a decree prohibiting discrimination against privatized

CLINTON SEEN TAKING TOUGH STANCE ON CHINAHONG KONG - The United States will take a m

China has called for creating direct trade relations with South Africa, an official newspaper report

U.S telecommunications companies, which have teamed up with German firms in bids to win the license

CHINA TO WRITE REFORMS INTO REVISED CONSTITUTIONBEIJING - China is moving to revise

The decision by Codelco-Chile to invite big mining firms to participate in joint-venture exploration

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 202.84 off 0.38 which compares w

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China's imports are expected to increase 30 percent this year over last, as economic growth continue

Responding to shipper and steamship line concerns, the Port of Los Angeles last week approved a new

U.S. coal exporters are uneasy about the prospects for 1993 because of a decline in demand since Jun

Russia's Baltic Shipping Co. will change its winter service for Great Lakes- area cargoes this seaso

India, virtually ignored for years by air freight carriers, has suddenly blossomed into amajor air c

Three may be a crowd, but the Interstate Commerce Commission is finding that four can be a very awkw

Argentina has sold a 70 percent stake in its Palmar Largo oil field to a group led by Canada's Norce

Fuel oil futures on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange will likely be the market most aff

Hoping to shave nearly three weeks shipping time from traditional all-water routes, Direct Container

Authorities in Singapore Monday were investigating the cause of a fire that killed five subcontracto

Approximately 20,000 of Lloyd's of London's "Names" - the wealthy individuals who back underwriting

The Finnish metal group Outokumpu on Monday announced a series of job cutbacks at its copper divisio

Japan's Ministry of Finance will broaden the authorization allowing private banks to create packages

The index of leading U.S. economic indicators probably rose moderately in October, its first increas

The Japanese government has moved to accept tariffication and lift the virtual ban on rice imports,

FERRUZZI RESTRUCTURES CHEMICAL BUSINESSThe Ferruzzi family last week consolidated its contro

GHANA'S ASHANTI SIGNS $140 MILLION LOANACCRA, Ghana - Ashanti Goldfields Corp., Ghana's larg

The Chicago Board of Trade has moved a step closer toward changing trading hours for grain and soy c

ASARCO TO MAKE AFTER-TAX PROVISIONNEW YORK - Asarco Inc. will make a $122 million af

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Using the Dominican Republic as a model, other Caribbean Basin Initiative nations are embracing the

When Airborne Express landed a three-year contract in 1987 to carry all of IBM Corporation's domesti

Two of Europe's largest container shipping lines are experiencing a sharp deterioration in earnings

Financial strength standards being developed by state insurance regulators could eliminate between 3

Boeing Co. said major cutbacks in the construction of 757s aircraft next year is expected to mean cu

A U.N. environmental conference agreed last week to phase out some ozone- destroying gases by the en

A Puget Sound shipyard has received a $23.2 million contract to build a high- stability swath ship t

Federico Pena, who as mayor of Denver lobbied Congress for highway and airport funding, clean auto f