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South Africa's trade surplus in January totaled just over $250 million (700 million rand), down from

Quotations, provided by Citibank/New York, Foreign Exchange Desk, are offered rates of New York City

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The U.S. merchandise trade deficit widened sharply in December, but the deficit for the entire year

Mandating use of methanol as an alternative fuel would do little to reduce automobile emissions, but

The world price of cocoa is likely to rise 23 percent this year to 66.5 cents a pound, and tin price

Weyerhaeuser Co., one of the Pacific Northwest's largest timber companies, says it has reached tenta

Nevada, joining a growing list of states eager to calm consumer discontent, has appointed advocates

Actuaries who specialize in health-care financing favor the slow and steady approaches proposed by t

Billions of criminal dollars are being routinely laundered through seemingly legitimate import-expor

The United States is likely today to remove the European Community and South Korea from a list of co

THAI AIR SETS OFFERING OF 100 MILLION SHARESBANGKOK, Thailand - State-owned Thai Airways Int

COFFEE FUTURES JUMP ON SHORT-COVERINGCoffee futures jumped on fund and speculative short-cov

GERMANY, RUSSIA STUDY HYDROGEN AIRCRAFT FUELBONN, Germany - The German and Russian airline i

The Bundespost, Germany's postal service, will raise and streamline its prices beginning July 1, the

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The Cabinet in Taiwan approved a long-stalled fourth nuclear power plant on Thursday, raising the sp

Producer prices in western Germany fell 0.1 percent in January from December, but were 1.6 percent h

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The German Finance Ministry Wednesday said the EC's proposal to raise gross national product-based r

Despite a continuing decline in volume on its white sugar contract, officials at Matif, the French f

Maritime administrator Warren Leback is heading a marketing mission to the Far East designed to prom

Lincoln National Corp., which may lose up to 3,200 employees over the next several months as busines

When trade in Southeast Asia started to boom in the second half of the 1980s, Regional Container Lin

As of Feb. 19, 1992 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list price

The Department of Transportation, reversing its own policy, has granted Lufthansa German Airlines a

The Air Freight Association urged Congress to double the level of federalfunds set aside eac

L.A. GEAR IS CHARGED WITH 46 VIOLATIONSThe Commerce Department has charged L.A. Gear Inc., a

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William Edwards resigned as executive director of the Port of Gulfport, Miss., citing a need to relo

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Singapore this weekend announced a policy to limit the use of unskilled workers in the construction

Citing decreasing tensions in the region, exporters and congressional officials in Honduras are pres

Partisan politics and the internal debate over staffing levels that has split the Interstate Commerc

The Senate voted Wednesday to ban drilling for oil, but not natural gas, off the coast of Florida in

H.J. Heinz Co. this week announced the formation of Cairo Foods Industries SAE and officially opened

Feb. 18, 1992 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

U.S. Customs Service agents this week seized 3,450 pounds of cocaine inside containers off-loaded fr

French state-owned insurer Assurances Generales de France finally acted on its longstanding threat t