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ALGERIA - $65 million from the World Bank for a pilot program to improve the country's university sy

A U.S. trade official urged the Japanese Tuesday to strive for a "dramatic breakthrough" to prevent

A steady increase in domestic and transshipment business prompted ambitious expansion plans for St.

The Interstate Commerce Commission Tuesday voted to review its rules governing freight-hauling contr

TRANSCISCO UNITS SIGN SOVIET JOINT VENTURESAN FRANCISCO - Transcisco Industries Inc. said it

S. KOREAN TRADE DEFICIT SOARS TO $6 BILLIONSEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's trade deficit

AMERIJET CANCELS WEST COAST OPERATIONOAKLAND, Calif. - Amerijet International Airlines cance

TERPSTRA BECOMES CHAIRMAN OF AAPAThe executive director of the Port of Tacoma will chair the

A decision on the fate of Interflug, the former state-owned airline of what was East Germany, is exp

STONE & WEBSTER GETS WESTERN ENERGY PACTWestern Energy Co. awarded Stone & Webster Engineeri

Tue., Nov. 20, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

Nov. 20, 1990 No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley d38.8

The International Monetary Fund may lend up to $3.5 billion over the next year to help developing na

Traders at the recent autumn session of China's main trade fair report the first steps in a difficul

SOVIET SOURCES DENY IVORIAN COCOA DEALLONDON/PARIS - A Soviet trade agency official Monday d

Uruguay Round negotiators have agreed to go ahead with a Dec. 3-7 ministerial meeting in Brussels, B

India was the largest shipbreaker in the world in 1989, but a combined foreign exchange and energy c

Nippon Yusen Kaisha reports its full-scale double-stack train service from Los Angeles to Mexico Cit

WHO OWNS the standards? Electronic data interchange works by replacing paper documents, tele

CP RAIL'S INTEREST IN D&H STILL HIGHTORONTO - CP Rail said Monday that its interest in acqui

The world at large will probably have to wait a while to see any significant results of a recent mov

UNIFY FORMS VENTURE WITH JAPANESE FIRMSUnify Corp. announced it has formed a Tokyo-based joi

Higher crude oil prices and a sluggish U.S. economy are likely to cause petroleum imports to "declin

A South Korean farm group is using a comic book to convince schoolchildren that foreign products are

A local group Monday signed a US$200 million joint venture agreement with Mexico to build an aircraf

A storm-tossed tanker off the Atlantic Coast creates an oil spill half as large as last year's Exxon

CURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICIT WIDENS IN FRANCEFrance posted an estimated current account deficit o

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The garment industry is seeking to promote joint ventures with companies from Japan and South Korea

The German government is willing to release some of Berlin's strategic food and coal supplies to hel

PHILADELPHIA CRANE TO BE IDLE TWO WEEKSPHILADELPHIA - A key container crane at the Port of P

GROUP CALLS FOR TALKS ON WAR-RISK RATESNEW YORK - The federation of Gulf Cooperation Council

Two civilian companies that operate military cargo ships are in danger of losing their government co

Leaders of the United States, Britain and France took advantage of the Paris summit Monday to discus

The unexpected strength of seaborne trade between Asia and Europe should enable liner shipping compa

Nov. 19, 1990 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

Singapore International Monetary Exchange Nov. 19, 1990Dubai Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel

Mounting revolts in Brazil's Congress and business community are threatening President Fernando Coll

Four people were killed and four injured Monday as an explosion ripped through a synthetic rubber fa

In an attempt to maintain state control of the multibillion dollar insurance industry, state legisla