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NO SPILLS REPORTEDAFTER TANKER ACCIDENTSANDY HOOK, N.J. - An accident involving two tankers

The troubled Tampa Shipbuilding Co. closed its shipyard at the Port of Tampa, citing lack of money t

Lots of companies talk about forming partnerships with their workers. But few do much about it - lea

Starting Sept. 30, travelers flying abroad from Oregon will be able to use Canadian Regional Airline

WAUGH WON'T SEEK2ND BAR PILOTS TERMSAN FRANCISCO - Greg Waugh, president and port agent of t

When Mexican lawmen raided a clandestine fabric manufacturer this month and seized millions of imita

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

The United States and Japan appear closer to an agreement in the contentious semiconductor and insur

Thursday, July 25, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

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

The U.S. dollar fell sharply Thursday after the Bundesbank announced it was leaving key interest rat

Companies from Hong Kong and Singapore, the two biggest maritime centers in the region, are joining

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, July 28, '95 - July 25, '96 (a graph)* A

1086 (July 25, 1996) Previous day - 1094The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

July 25, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

The Mexican government has decided to further accelerate its repayment of last year's $20 billion U.

Asia-Pacific nations will have to spend an estimated $200 billion by 2010 to develop their airports

Boeing Co. is shifting close to half of the production capacity of its strike-torn Winnipeg, Manitob

More high-tech companies are expected to manufacture overseas, according to the results of a recent

NFL SIGNS MARUBENIFOR FOOTBALL GOODSTOKYO - Marubeni Corp., a leading Japanese trading house

Cray Research Monday is expected to announce plans to file an anti-dumping complaint against Japan's

With a new president in office and a peace accord slated for signing by year's end, Guatemala is emb

''I am broke, as are many other companies here.''

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Though burdened with inefficient, error-prone and energy-guzzling machinery from the 1940s, Svetoch

RUSSIAN STOCK MARKETCONTINUES TO SLIDEMOSCOW - The Russian stock market fell about 3 percent

Canadian National Railway boosted second-quarter earnings by 35 percent, while Kansas City Southern

CoreStates Bank NA of Philadelphia, becoming the newest player in this country's trade finance secto

Jimmy Hoffa Jr. may be riding high on hopes of being elected the next Teamsters president, but if he

ALCATEL-MARUBENI CORP.FranceAmount of contract: $21,780,369.Contract description: Re

U.S. rice growers intent on expanding export markets in Northern Asia, are crying foul over a South

2ND-QUARTER RESULTSIMPROVE AT BOEINGSEATTLE - Boeing Co. Thursday posted a significantly imp

NATIONS BATTLE OVERMYANMAR AT ASEAN TALKSJAKARTA, Indonesia - Asian and Western nations agre

Following a Defense Department objection, the Commerce Department has withdrawn a statement that the

TURKEY TOLD TO CLOSECOAL-FIRED POWER PLANTSANKARA, Turkey - A court ruled that three coal-fi

As of July 25, 1996Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

Textile exporting nations en masse attacked rich importing countries Thursday for allegedly undermin

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,300-$1,500 per ton lo

International Petroleum ExchangeJuly 25, 1996 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 241.13 off 0.19