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

Thursday, Nov. 21, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Wednesday Nov. 20, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

A lack of drivers has dozens of trucks sitting idle at Builders Transport Inc., hitting the motor ca

Panama denied Wednesday it was violating international tuna conservation efforts and expressed surpr

The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services increased sharply in September to $11.34 billion, and t

As President Clinton heads to Asia to meet with Chinese President Jiang Zemin, congressional leaders

SHIPSMATSON SET TO INCREASEFUEL SURCHARGE DEC. 8SAN FRANCISCO - Matson Navigation sa

Nearly two months after West Coast longshoremen ratified a new three-year contract, terminals at the

The next steps in the brutal battle for control of Conrail Inc. should become clearer today when CSX

A ValuJet executive could not identify a clear chain of command at his company for overseeing outsid

Yellow Freight System Inc., the nation's largest pure trucking company, Wednesday announced a 5.2 pe

O'NEIL IS RE-ELECTEDIMO SECRETARY-GENERALLONDON - William O'Neil was re-elected secretary-ge

In an item appearing on Page 2B in the Monday, Nov. 18, edition, headlined ''DC-8 cargo plane skids,

Frank Caggiano, deputy port director of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, is stepping dow

ONGOINGS.O.S. Safety on Ships. Through Dec. 30. New York. Exhibit on New York's maritime tra

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A near-record U.S. grain harvest is flooding Western railroads, reversing a slow start to the shippi

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FLIGHTMASTERS SIGNSPACT WITH CARE CARGOST. PAUL, Minn. - Flight- masters/Seamasters, a globa

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PHILLIPS WANTS TO BUILDLNG PLANT IN AUSTRALIADARWIN, Australia - Phillips Petroleum Co. of t

Federal Express Corp. now plans to begin its round-the-world service next August, according to FedEx

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

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The U.S. dollar was mixed against major foreign currencies on Wednesday following the release of the

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Matson Navigation Co. is urging the Maritime Administration to discard shipper and shipbuilder objec

Top administration officials aren't wasting any time in renewing a push for hemispheric trade integr

The World Trade Organization agreed Wednesday to create a dispute panel, requested by the European U

Officials at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation group here said some members of the group have pr

Smaller companies may be among the most worried about growing competition from regional trade libera

US AND JAPAN FAVORPARTIAL LIFTING OF BANTOKYO - Shogo Itoda, secretary-general of the Fair T

''It will send a clear message to the world that APEC means business.''

Bold steps to wire the Asia-Pacific for the next century are hitting some crossed wires here, and in

MONSANTO DEFENDS TESTSON GENE-ALTERED BEANSCHICAGO - Monsanto Co., which produces geneticall

Japan announced Wednesday it will correct its discriminatory liquor taxation system in compliance wi

MARSEILLES REPORTSBOX TRAFFIC GROWTHMARSEILLES, France - The Port of Marseilles reported a 1

Swiss bankers and politicians, embarrassed by allegations that the Alpine country profited from the