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Caliber System Inc. is cutting loose a chunk of its money-losing Viking Freight subsidiary, slicing

Friday, March 28, 1997Percentages Per Year INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

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

Poles enjoy saying they were the horse on which the communist saddle never quite fit.Now Pol

Canadian barley growers voted by a 62.9 percent majority to reject open-market exporting and stick w

Wednesday's ''tankan'' report on the Japanese economy will set the tone for yen trading against the

United Parcel Service today begins a corporate-wide on-time initiative to fine-tune its worldwide de

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, April 4, 1996 - March 28, 1997 (a graph)

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index has slipped to its lowest point this year, but it sti

U.S. manufacturers and importers of high-value goods are increasingly shunning U.S. ports and their

The Russian State Statistics Committee Friday denied media reports that it had manipulated figures t

PANEL'S TOP REPUBLICANSSEEK TRADE-RULES CHANGEWASHINGTON - The top Republicans on the House

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ARKANSAS HOUSE DELETES'ACTS OF GOD' FROM BILLLITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Bowing to the wishes of Gov

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100%) is as follows

The U.S. subsidiary of Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi says an $83 million loss resulted from errors in a c

Pakistan's finance minister announced a new economic package Friday that will force more people to p

The powerhouse economies of the United States and Japan stand to gain the most from last week's glob

''Whereas sleepy babushkas used to be in charge of security . . . nowadays you see uniformed guards

EVA AIR: CARGO IS UP,CONSOLIDATION COMPLETETAIPEI - EVA Air cargo traffic rose 18 percent to

Moves by Russia's new government to change the nation's internal diamond mining and sales monopoly w

East Asian economies must do more to open financial markets for their own sake and that of the globa

A host of new all-cargo and combination carriers filling the skies between the United States and Bra

TAIWAN REPORTED TAKINGUS FIGHTERS IN APRILTAIPEI - Taiwan will take delivery on April 26 of

Russia's government leaders are still arguing with national union leaders over what was achieved by

A union official and a South Korean industry group on Friday played down charges that factory worker

After absorbing years of criticism that its procedures were too slow and bureaucratic, the Surface T

Korean Air took delivery of a Boeing 777, the first of several new planes ordered by the company in

FORWARDERS SEEK PARITYIN DEREGULATION BILLWASHINGTON - Consolidators represented by the Amer

OFFERS TO BUY* MINI REFRIGERATORS FOR HOUSEHOLD USE. Contact: Anagnostis Karoulis, IN.TRA.Co

The European Commission's bid for more power to negotiate trade deals has hit an Anglo-French roadbl

Five years after a Yugoslav cargo ship dropped anchor in Baltimore Harbor, it's still there, with a

March 27, 1997Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Lo

FORD IN CHINA VENTURETO BUILD LIGHT TRUCKSBEIJING - FORD MOTOR (CHINA) LTD. AND A CHINESE AU

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

In the 1970s and 1980s, Lynch Machinery didn't have a prayer.The small U.S. glass-pressing m

Global air cargo traffic rose by 5.9 percent in 1996 to reach 49.3 million tons compared with a year

ARGENTINA SEEN ATTRACTINGS. AFRICAN MINING FIRMSBUENOS AIRES - South African mining companie

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,524-$1,595 per ton lo

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