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A blunt assessment Monday from top economists at German research institutes that government fiscal p

Cuba's umbrella labor union threw its weight firmly behind the government's determination to stick w

MasterCard International Inc. has plunged into Vietnam's consumer financial market by issuing its fi

VEGETABLE PRICE GROWTHFORECAST TO SLOWWASHINGTON - Retail prices of fresh vegetables are lik

The worldwide personal computer market is forecast to grow 19.1 percent in 1996, with the U.S. marke

The current grain crisis that has sent wheat prices skyward and buyers scrambling for supplies may u

Monday Apr. 29, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

Months after House Speaker Newt Gingrich stepped in to preserve ethanol's tax breaks, federal subsid

With their vast natural resources, Russia and the former Soviet republics offer unlimited opportunit

April 29, 1996This table shows the vessels scheduled to call at U.S. coal terminals and the

USG SUBSIDIARY TO GETBIG ASBESTOS SETTLEMENTNEW YORK - USG Corp.'s largest subsidiary, Unite

NET INCOME UPAT ST. PAUL COS.ST. PAUL, Minn. - The St. Paul Cos. reported a boost in 1996 fi

The rapid advance of technology is helping to accelerate and standardize international trade and tra

Heavy weather at sea and theft of cargo at ports can produce losses for exporters and claims for ins

Four deaths in Missouri were blamed on heavy rains and high winds as the punishing weather swept car

In 1993, renewal of the Export Administration Act was a top priority for the U.S. high-tech industry

On a recent visit to the White House, an executive was taken aside and quietly warned that his compa

Investors and policyholders bickered Monday over a ceasefire extension agreement with Lloyd's of Lon

Insurance and banking industries continue to pick over the latest version of the banking deregulatio

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Robots were once the domain of assembly lines, replacing human workers who had numbed their minds an

It's one thing to get the ball rolling, and another to keep it rolling. Although the transportation

Cargo stranded on a ship under arrest in the Canadian Port of Halifax for several weeks is now being

The debut early this year of the Regina Maersk, the world's first ship capable of carrying 6,000 20-

PercentYear Closing Change High/ Price

Transportation stocks performed generally well last week, with The Journal of Commerce transportatio

The coal unit train is a familiar railroad workhorse but seems an unlikely candidate for high-tech i

The stock market is hitting all-time highs, the president predicts higher second-quarter growth and

The move by major U.S. exporters and key ship lines to partially deregulate ocean shipping enters a

A cloud appeared Friday over an impending deal to liberalize telecommunications trade around the wor

Friday, April 26, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The U.S. dollar was dragged down by the yen Friday, as the Deutsche mark remained in the dog house.<

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

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, May 5, '95, - April 26, '96 (a graph)(2)

They say time is like a circus, always packing up and moving away. Time is a thread running through

KOHL LOWERS FORECASTFOR GERMAN GDP RISEBONN - Chancellor Helmut Kohl said the German governm

''If you're IBM, you don't want to deal with every government-owned monopoly around the world.''

Communications officials in Mexico late last week announced new linkage charges with monopoly Telefo

The story headlined ''Socialist Portugal smiles on privatization,'' which appeared on Page 5A on Fri

With freight rates under severe pressure and carriers doing their utmost to restore market stability