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Emery Worldwide announced Friday it is expanding its 2-year-old ''gold priority'' service to offer t

Back in the boom days of the 1960s, Germany's Kiel canal was the world's most heavily traveled artif

A pirate tale this be, a tale of bloodthirsty marauders who invade cargo boats, looting and attackin

Seventeen years ago, the Gdansk shipyard gave birth to the Solidary movement that freed Poland from

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NORTHEAST UTILITIESCUTS CONTRACTING JOBSWATERFORD, Conn. - Long troubled Northeast Utilities

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

As of May 16, 1997Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from sup

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 252.77 up 1.39 w

May 16, 1997Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

May 16, 1997RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unlea

International Petroleum ExchangeMay 16, 1997 *Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Eli Lilly & Co. said it agreed to sell its stake in DowElanco to Dow Chemical Co. for $1.2 billion,

May 16, 1997No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 27.

New York Mercantile Exchange - May 15, 1997Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

USX Corp. said its USX-Marathon Group subsidiary will form a joint venture with Ashland Inc. that co

UTILITY WINS ROUNDIN TAR-BASED FUEL FIGHTTALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida Power & Light Co. may y

A blistering discussion paper circulating among top airline executives accuses U.S. aviation officia

Just when the Clinton administration needs some sign that its open-door China policy is working, tal

May 16, 1997U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

With all of last week devoted to semantic karate over whether trade negotiators ''will'' or ''should

Bre-X Minerals, the Canadian company at the center of a gold-mining scandal, said it will end operat

Along for the ride during the last three sessions of hemispheric trade talks, business executives fr

Somewhere in Alberta, where thousands of natural gas wells already dot the landscape, the province's

Friday May 16, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

EQUAL-ACCESS PIPELINEAIMS TO WEAKEN GAZPROMMOSCOW - The Russian government is to prepare a d

After five years of disputes, a coalition of oil companies and governments has agreed to build a $2

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Friday, May 16, 1997Percentages Per Year INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

NISSAN OPENS SECONDPLANT IN TENNESSEEDECHERD, Tenn. - Nissan has opened a second facility in

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, May 24, 1996 - May 16, 1997 (a graph)* A

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

Only Alan Greenspan's barber knows for sure, but the leading Fed watchers are not looking for a rate

A Jamaican bank with subsidiaries in the United States and Guyana has been taken over by a governmen

Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles has pressed the flesh in this working class Brazilian city and chatted up

A fugitive Swiss property developer, wanted on fraud charges in his homeland, has been extradited by

''It's a much bigger game - it's thrilling. It's risky.''

MAZDA TO CONSOLIDATENORTH AMERICAN UNITSIRVINE, Calif. - Mazda Motor Corp. said it plans to

Inside the Palacio das Artes here, trade negotiators from 34 countries meet behind closed doors to t

An ocean carrier plan to revamp Customs' controversial export automation program is gathering moment