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China and the United States ended three days of talks with little progress in their dispute over ill

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Mar. 31 '95, - Mar. 28, '96 (a graph)(2)

Japan's Fair Trade Commission ordered 13 major department store companies Thursday to stop rigging t

Iran has the largest stockpile of chemical weapons in the Third World and an arsenal of missiles cap

A trouble-plagued copper mine that was looking forward to a good year is instead facing closure for

Thursday Mar. 28, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

The Malaysian economy grew by 9.5 percent in 1995 compared with 9.2 percent a year earlier, Malaysia

President Fidel Ramos signed legislation Thursday designed to make it easier for foreign players to

PHOENIX AGREESTO BUYOUT BY APACHENEW YORK - Oil and gas explorer Phoenix Resource Cos. said

''Everyone builds the church for Easter Sunday; then we live with the fact we have more agnostics th

Only a few weeks before President Clinton meets with Japan's prime minister, talks designed to solve

Eli Lilly and Co., already faced with a $31.5 million antitrust settlement with pharmacies, is now p

Japan and the European Union have agreed that Japanese automakers will be allowed to export up to 1,

A bid by Kenya to market a new variety of coffee that costs farmers less to grow has run into so man

BUNDESBANK LEAVESKEY RATES UNCHANGEDFRANKFURT, Germany - The Bundesbank said Thursda

Senior officials from 30 rubber exporting and importing nations agreed Thursday to extend the deadli

Trade Minister Shumpei Tsukahara showed support early this week for a request from Japan's powerful

Philippine President Fidel Ramos on Thursday signed into law a bill scrapping quotas on agricultural

CONGRESS URGED TO ENACTSHIP SUBSIDY PROGRAMWASHINGTON - Albert Herberger, director of the Tr

A promising new area for American companies appears to be on the verge of opening up, thanks to a re

1445 (Mar. 28, 1996) Previous day - 1430The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

Although Japanese consumers can be notoriously skittish about food safety issues, analysts said they

Columbia Coastal Transport Inc. is taking over a barge service operating between Baltimore and Norfo

Given the success of raids in Singapore that netted more than $1 million worth of counterfeit compac

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

Port of Houston commissioners have temporarily backed away from controversial increases in wharfage

A joint venture between a Japanese carrier and India's Tata Group plans to diversify into intermodal

The California attorney general has filed suit against the city of Los Angeles, seeking to force the

The mysterious disease that is decimating the manatee population of Southwest Florida has exploded a

Although the North American Free Trade Agreement is not believed to have created an increase in nort

Mar. 28, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

German plant and machinery orders in February fell a real 6 percent on the year, the German Machiner

A $187 million sale of John Deere combines to Ukraine cleared two final government hurdles.T

Trade leads supplied by:U.S. Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Bad weather and increasing competition from Mexico have significantly reduced Florida's share of the

Trade leads supplied by:U.S. Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

JAPANESE COURT: INSURERMUST PAY IN SUICIDE CASETOKYO - The Tokyo District Court in a landmar

Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the diversified insurance holding company controlled by billionaire Warren

Lloyd's of London filed a motion in Los Angeles federal district court Wednesday to dismiss the suit

Coming full circle with efforts to deregulate the banking industry, the House Banking Committee said