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The Department of Energy announced Thursday an additional $10 million will be committed to help offs

A subsidiary of energy giant Enron has purchased rights to a defunct wind-power project near the Can

Indonesian company Capstan Hong Kong is to buy three dumps from the closed Stilfontein gold mine to

Although gas-rich Norway opted out of the European Union, its forecast that gas sales will double in

Some die-hard gourmet coffee drinkers take it in stride, but others are steaming over rising java pr

HUB GROUP INC.Barbara Cataneo was named director of national accounts for the Northeast regi

BOX TRAFFIC FUELS RISEIN CARGO TONNAGE AT VPANORFOLK, Va. - General cargo tonnage at Virgini

China's third-largest port is getting a substantial injection of funds to boost container capacity f

A committee formed to study the privatization of El Al Israel Airlines recommends selling 100 percen

The Port of Halifax has scored another win with the introduction of visits every 12 days by the Nati

The United States and the European Union sought Wednesday to gloss over mounting commercial tensions

INDONESIA TO SEEK MOREBILATERAL AUTO TALKSJAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia will seek new bilat

Japanese retail and distribution companies are investing heavily in China as Japanese trade official

Europe's most ambitious postwar project, its planned single currency, appears set to survive whateve

One of Germany's biggest companies is considering buying a major stake in Hapag-Lloyd AG, the nation

If you're doing any kind of business with Russia - or plan to - here is a tale you must read. Did th

Wednesday, May 28, 1997Percentages Per Year INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by Reuter Money Service, are selling rates among

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, May 31, 1996 - May 28, 1997 (a graph)* A

The U.S. dollar drooped Wednesday, as European currencies weakened against the Deutsche mark.

A Fed Supremo, a global banking regulator, is an idea whose time has yet to come.The next cr

North American Free Trade Agreement's environmental panel will bypass a study of how expansion of a

'One's fears are always on alert when you have a privatized industry, particularly when it was priva

Facing a Sunday deadline, Texas lawmakers are expected as early as today to reach a compromise on a

POLL: JAPAN AND TAIWANFIRMS MOST COMPETITIVEHONG KONG - Japanese firm Sony Corp. topped a li

The European Union is likely to take a complaint against the United States to the World Trade Organi

The European Union has opened proceedings with the World Trade Organization to examine its complaint

About $15 billion worth of publicly owned companies in Pakistan will be sold over the 12 months, wit

Buying and selling abroad means navigating forests of rules and reams of documentation enough to det

US TEXTILE TRADEEXPANDED IN 1ST QUARTERWASHINGTON - U.S. textile and apparel imports and exp

The United States and 22 other nations will try next month to nail down a so-far elusive agreement h

Taiwanese companies will be banned from financing infrastructure projects in China, and their indivi

PORT OF CHURCHILLDEAL MAY BE NEARWINNIPEG, Manitoba - Negotiations between Transport Canada

OFFERS TO BUY* SUPERFINE KEROSENE OIL (SKO). Superfine kerosene oil (SKO) IS 1459. 12,000 me

U.S. officials hope to emerge from talks with New Zealand today with a new aviation pact that will b

UPS POISED TO RESUMECONTRACT NEGOTIATIONSLOUISVILLE, Ky. - Negotiators for United Parcel Ser

The pending departure of Rep. Susan Molinari from Congress in October - the New York Republican will

FRITZ OPENS ITS DOORSIN KARACHI AND LAHORESAN FRANCISCO - Fritz Cos. opened full-service ope

The Maritime Association of the Port of New York/New Jersey will honor the presidents of Smit Intern

F.W. MYERS & CO.Jeff Patterson was named president and chief executive at this Rouses Point,