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Feb. 5, 1997Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

Workers at France's state-owned railroad staged a strike Wednesday to protest cost-cutting restructu

Feb. 5, 1997RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unlea

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

Japan voiced strong displeasure at Moscow's view that the sunken tanker Nakhodka collided with an un

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

Feb. 5, 1997U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

Feb. 5, 1997No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 32.

CLINTON EXPECTED TO PUSHOIL RESERVE SPACE LEASINGWASHINGTON - President Clinton will seek pe

Cargill Inc. is still interested in selling wheat and rice to North Korea, despite reports that the

Feb. 5, 1997Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 238.66 off 0.03 w

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

Nike Corp. executives were confident the company would whiz through a compliance audit that U.S. Cus

As of Feb. 5, 1997Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from sup

International Petroleum ExchangeFeb. 5, 1997 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

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Japanese and European negotiators this week failed to resolve an international dispute over Tokyo's

Wednesday, Feb. 5, 1997Percentages Per Year INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The U.S. dollar surged to a four-year high above 123 yen Wednesday, amid rumors of problems at a maj

World Bank President James Wolfensohn, buoyed by reports of ''a new dynamism'' in sub-Saharan Africa

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Feb. 9, 1996, - Feb. 5, 1997, (a graph)*

President Clinton will visit Mexico April 11-12 and make a separate trip to Barbados, Costa Rica, Br

U.S. importers will see the universe of available Chinese textiles shrink by several million square

New York Mercantile Exchange - Feb. 4, 1997Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

AIRBUS STUDIES MERGEROF BOEING, MCDONNELLPARIS - European plane-making consortium Airbus Ind

The capital's deal-making mood will be tested quickly as Congress and the White House go to battle o

''Give the (Cuban people) Coca-Cola, Reebok and put MTV down there, and he'd (Castro) be gone in hal

RUSSIA, GERMANY SIGNDEBT REPAYMENT PACTBONN - Germany and the Russian Federation Wednesday s

Most foreign businessmen doing business in Mexico or considering such a foray can probably name the

U.S. inventories of distillate fuel oil, used as home heating and diesel fuel, fell 4.1 million barr

Police fired water cannons and rubber bullets Wednesday at thousands of protesters who demanded that

U.S. and European officials reported major progress this week in talks on their respective meat impo

Pakistan's next prime minister is expected to give top priority to a heavy economic agenda when he t

Wednesday Feb. 5, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

Gulf Canada Resources Ltd. Tuesday raised its hostile bid for Clyde Petroleum PLC, but the British o

A senior U.S. official on Wednesday sharply criticized the way Australia sells wheat in foreign mark

The mid-January frost that took most of Florida's agriculture industry by surprise was far less dama

ENRON'S INDIA PROJECTGETS BACK ON COURSEBOMBAY - Construction of India's largest private pow

INCOME FALLS, REVENUERISES AT PACCAR INC.BELLEVUE, Wash. - Paccar Inc., the nation's second-