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After seven years of robust growth, Canada's economy has officially slipped into recession, accordin

Failure to reach agreement this week in the Uruguay Round of trade talks could mean an escalation of

P&O Containers Ltd. said it will launch a new agency company in Antwerp, Belgium, on Jan. 1.

Spurred by the latest oil price shock and faced with growing regulations to curb pollution, utilitie

Sadek Boussena, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' president and Algeria's oil minis

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Negotiations for new dock labor contracts went down to the wire Friday in nearly every port worked b

Singapore International Monetary Exchange Nov. 30, 1990Dubai Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel

The Australian plastics industry is hitting back at its critics. After years of being the vi

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Modernization of the Soviet fleet could release a large amount of surplus ship capacity onto the wor

The cooperative agreement signed last week by All Nippon Airways and USAir is primarily passenger or

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1348 (Nov. 30, 1990) Previous day - 1340 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

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Nippon Yusen Kaisha and Malaysia's Perbadanan Nasional Shipping Line Berhad jointly ordered a new ga

Coffee authorities here lauded proposed Colombian Senate laws that permit increased coffee export by

Consumer prices in Tokyo climbed at their fastest rate in more than eight years in November, fanning

The Australian government is expected soon to designate a second Australian- own ed global air cargo

THE OCEAN FREIGHT FUTURES MARKET came to life last week, with a tightening charter market for dry b

HOLIDAY STRESS GOT YOU? PUT THIS IN YOUR EARLAS VEGAS - With the holidays fast approaching,

The U.S. dollar traded higher against most major currencies - especially the Japanese yen - Thursday

Israel's powerful trade union federation vowed Thursday that an indefinite national general strike w

FREIGHT TRAIN SERVICE RESTORED IN GERMANYBERLIN - Rail service returned to normal in eastern

The passage of the Clean Air Act amendments will not mean the end of the chemical and oil industries

KINGS POINT CLUB OF WASHINGTON. Dec. 1. Washington, D.C. Christmas party. Fort McNair officers' club

Assurances Generales de France, Europe's fifth largest insurance concern, wants to pursue the acquis

U.S. oil spill liability laws could force shipowners to become more secretive at the very time they

Nov. 29, 1990 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry plans to publish next spring a report on unfair

A free-trade agreement between the United States and Mexico would be "just another job giveaway to a

As Pakistan faces a tightening squeeze on revenues and its balance of payments, the new government o

Six international maritime classification societies formally enrolled Thursday on the independent Ho

Long-awaited Customs regulations on the electronic filing of entries will be published Monday in the

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

Thu., Nov. 29, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

Nov. 29, 1990 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

Nov. 29, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

The reason state and local pension funds are rushing to invest their assets overseas is not to shun

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