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A U.S. company has started negotiating to sell American grain to North Korea, the communist country'

CHEVRON IN TALKSTO BUILD THAI PLANTSINGAPORE - U.S.-based Chevron Chemical Co. is negotiatin

The Indian government will open power transmission to private investment, a long-pending demand of p

Dairy farmers suffering from a steep decline in prices hope their one-day milk-dumping protest shows

Canada will soon ban the practice of feeding cows ground-up bits of other cows, sheep or other mamma

EUROPEAN INSPECTORSDETAIN SHIPS FOR SAFETYLONDON - Ships flying the flags of Cyprus, Turkey

PACCAR INC.Richard P. Fox will join the Bellevue, Wash., truck manufacturer as senior vice p

Canadian National Railway, a private company for less than 15 months, has matched profitability leve

The potential merger of Gateway Western Railway Co. and Kansas City Southern Railway Co. should mean

The Port of Colombo has dismissed 185 workers who participated in a strike in December to protest th

TRAVELERS TO BUY BACK$1 BILLION IN STOCKNEW YORK - Travelers Group Inc., the insurance and f

An entire generation of insurance executives doesn't know what it's like to operate a property/casua

CAPITAL RE CORP. REPORTSYEAR-END INCOME INCREASENEW YORK - Capital Re Corp. said 1996 net in

Homeowners bracing for premium increases of up to 17.8 percent by Florida's insurer of last resort c

A leading U.S. civil engineer is among the winners of contracts to privatize and essentially rebuild

The Cuban American National Foundation, the conservative exile group that played a key role in the t

''There will be Florida fruit and vegetables available. Maybe not in the volume we had last week, bu

Counterfeiters have for the first time succeeded in forging the new improved US$100 bills, Russian p

The Russian government is planning to push through a set of economic reforms early this year that co

EU BODY OPPOSES VETOOF 'ENHANCED COOPERATION'BRUSSELS - The European Commission has confirme

Sony Corp. announced a massive reorganization on Thursday to increase its focus on the lucrative U.S

Japanese officials and corporate executives who less than two years ago yelped with pain as the yen

Commerce Secretary-designate William Daley pledged this week to take steps, if he is confirmed, to '

The Russian government is to introduce a new plan for prepayment of taxes and excise dutieson import

WHEAT GLUTEN GROUPSEEKS SUBSIDIES PROBEWASHINGTON - The Wheat Gluten Industry Council has as

The government here has convinced the World Trade Organization to delay the deadline by which India

Japan's trade surplus plunged by nearly a third last year, but the latest monthly figures show an in

Jamaica's exporters welcomed a move by the government here to pump $6 million into the island's appa

U.S. officials said Wednesday that farm trade issues will be a key factor in whether China joins the

Senior U.S. insurance industry officials told London underwriters this week that new opportunities a

Xerox Corp. said Thursday it had found buyers for two pieces of its Talegen Holdings Inc. insurance

Thursday, Jan. 23, 1997Percentages Per Year INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

The U.S. dollar continued its ascent against the Japanese yen Thursday as it approached the 120-yen

Bills reforming the Superfund program and the tort liability system were dropped into the Senate hop

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

Boeing Co.'s year end and fourth quarter numbers reflect what analysts and industry types already kn

China, sharply criticized by Washington and Brussels for intellectual property rights violations, ha

Import prices generally remained subdued in December, reflecting a strong U.S. dollar that may trim

Swiss banks and the government, under pressure from world Jewish groups, agreed Thursday to create a

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Jan. 26, '96 - Jan. 23, '97 (a graph)* A