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Sluggish demand for key high-tech exports, appreciating currencies and a slowdown in regional activi

The European Union will launch a weeklong diplomatic campaign today to salvage its planned single cu

The debate continues: Are signatures on computerized documents legal and binding? If so, how can you

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(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, June 14, 1996 - June 9, 1997 (a graph)*

June 9, 1997U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

ARAMCO SAYS UPSTREAMCAPITAL SUFFICIENTKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Saudi Arabia has all the capi

RUSSIA, JAPAN AGREEON FIRST PART OF LOANTOKYO - Russia and Japan Monday signed an agreement

June 9, 1997RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unlea

How now, Nikkei?Japan has implemented a new law allowing Japanese corporate executives to be

Mexico's Federal Telecommunications Commission has published a formal call for bidders seeking forei

Current Textile Quotas:Where the average recent utilization rate indicates full quota utiliz

'I was both disturbed and surprised about how a company can have one moral code in Sweden, but have

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,500-$1,600 per ton lo

The United States is interested in thawing its relations with Cuba, said Secretary of State Madelein

Japan needs to open its markets and truly deregulate while the United States needs to increase savin

As of June 9, 1997Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from sup

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 246.60 off 0.04 wh

June 9, 1997Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

International Petroleum ExchangeJune 9, 1997 *BRENT CRUDE OIL - (DOLLARS PER BARREL)

RUSSIA, CUBA OK BOOSTIN OIL-SUGAR SWAPMOSCOW - Russia and Cuba have approved a sharp increas

Robust growth in developing countries and a brighter economic outlook in the former Soviet Union wil

A key panel that oversees global textile disputes is ready to issue a decision on a long-standing U.

New York Mercantile Exchange - June 6, 1997Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High Lo

ADM TO BUILD PLANTTO MAKE FOOD SUPPLEMENTDECATUR, Ill. - Archer Daniels Midland Co. plans to

When Omer Aktuna heard that Mercedes-Benz Turk had signed a $41 million contract to supply 317 city

June 9, 1997This table shows the vessels scheduled to call at U.S. coal terminals and the es

Local businesses say they're already feeling the pinch of the strike at nickel giant Inco Ltd.

PHILIPPINE INVESTMENTRATING GETS UPGRADEMANILA - American Overseas Private Investment Corp.

Monday June 9, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

It took a while and several false starts, but China now appears to have gotten what it wanted and Ho

U.S. property insurers, still paying claims related to Hurricane Andrew five years ago, are taking v

OFFICIALS EXPECT ROLLOVERAT OPEC JUNE MEETINGKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Officials with Kuwait

Encouraged by 34 percent growth the previous year, India is projecting at least a 27 percent rise in

The first U.S. ambassador to Hanoi said U.S. firms will not invest in Vietnam unless the risks of do

The Asia-Pacific region today has the same potential for the petroleum industry that North America a

SHIPYARD GROUP TAPSANTONINI FOR 5TH TERMLONDON - Corrado Antonini, chairman and chief execut

LIBERTY MUTUAL UNITPURCHASES SUL AMERICABOSTON - Liberty Mutual Group announced Monday that

MID OCEAN SAW INCREASEIN FIRST-HALF RESULTSHAMILTON, Bermuda - Mid Ocean Ltd. realized an in

Israeli legislators threatened Monday to call for a boycott of a major Italian insurance company unl