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Oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos is going ahead with plans to build a $200 million cryogenics plant

ASHLAND COAL, ARCHTO BE JOINED IN MERGERHUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Ashland Inc. plans to merge two

A hundred years ago, Charles M. Russell, one of the West's great painters, worked on a cattle ranch

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Taiwan on Monday urged South Korea to accept its deal to ship nuclear waste to impoverished North Ko

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Stocks on The Journal of Commerce Transportation Stock Index managed to avoid the steep decline seen

Eight years after the Japanese bubble burst, the country's troubles are multiplying, posing a threat

A key U.S. lawmaker has hardened his opposition to the global agreement to end shipbuilding subsidie

The United States is exporting one of its great cultural icons: the mall.Faced with a mature

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Stranded hundreds of miles from eager customers, with one of the world's biggest hoards of natural g

Friday, Jan. 24, 1997Percentages Per Year INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

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

Now what?The dollar has already reached levels that economists forecast at the beginning of

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Jan. 26, '96 - Jan. 24, '97 (a graph)* A

This week will see a major push in Geneva to open telecommunications markets around the world, amid

Japan's merchandise trade deficit with China is rapidly expanding and may reach a record high of $18

IMF MISSION EXITS RUSSIAWITHOUT COMPLETING TASKMOSCOW - The International Monetary Fund's mo

A key Senate panel this week will take the first step toward passing a resolution to exempt Charlene

Russian rail officials and truckers are attacking a tax on cross-border traffic set to go into effec

The biggest issues facing Customs this year - and the importers and exporters who depend on the agen

''Being bigger doesn't mean being more efficient. When people talk about the efficiencies of merging

RUSSIA TO RECEIVE LARGELOAN FROM WORLD BANKMOSCOW - The World Bank will lend Russia $500 mil

The executive board of the International Monetary Fund, in an almost unprecedented action, may recom

The South Korean government has renewed permission for seven companies to do business in North Korea

FOR THOSE WHO CAN'T WAIT to read John Vair's 1997 forecast on Page 10, here's a little preview of th

Uruguay's government is beginning to plan 40-year concessions open to international investors for a

US STEEL IMPORTS SETRECORD IN NOVEMBERWASHINGTON - The United States imported more steel in

Atlas, one of the Titans overthrown in a war with Olympic gods, proved a failure in Greek mythology.

After years of speaking in generalities, Asia-Pacific leaders should start focusing on specific proj

Some ideas have their moment, fade and come back, like, say, bell bottoms, tie-dye, Nixon.Re

Being chronically underpaid, transportation journalists have little money to invest. Otherwise quite

Even when the snow and ice started piling up at Boston's Logan International Airport last winter, th

The international air freight industry in 1997 will see continuous growth with the further developme

FARMERS ANNOUNCES SALEOF OHIO COMPANIESLOS ANGELES - Farmers Group Inc. announced it will se

One of Indonesia's most powerful and well-connected conglomerates plans on expanding its insurance i

When Seymour Kahn bought a small aircraft ground handling company 25 years ago, Mercury Air Group wa

Automobile insurers in Massachusetts likely spent an unhappy weekend trying to figure how to respond

The protection and indemnity clubs that insure shipowners' liability risks have secured considerably