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NIPPON CARGO AIRLINES RAISING US-ASIA RATESTOKYO - Nippon Cargo Airlines plans to im

Dutch short-haul plane maker Fokker NV said it agreed to transfer 34 aircraft to a new leasing compa

Friday Dec. 1, 1995 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

With its voracious appetite for plastics showing no sign of being met, China is adding ever more pet

INDUSTRY UNVEILS PLANS FOR SCRAPPING OIL RIGSLONDON - The international oil and gas

Deep inside the 8,100-page, 35-pound Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger application lies a fascin

The United Transportation Union and the bargaining unit representing most major U.S. railroads have

Burma has had very positive discussions with the International Monetary Fund and should reach an agr

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

Friday, Dec. 1, 1995 (Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Efforts to forge a hemispheric free trade agreement for the Americas are inching forward, but there

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Dec. 9 '94 - Dec. 1, '95 (a graph) (2)DA

The U.S. dollar will gain this week at the expense of an ailing British pound and a weak French fran

The European Union's top agriculture official has said he will defend the bloc's ban on imports of m

Estonia has become the second former Soviet Baltic republic to apply for membership in the European

"You suddenly have 125 million people looking at their water. It's hysteria."

President Boris Yeltsin offered a pre-election economic carrot to unhappy Russian business interests

Italy won Russia's biggest privatization deal so far Friday, snapping up a quarter of one of the cou

TOSHIBA PLANS FACTORY FOR COMPUTER CHIPSTOKYO - Toshiba Corp., bracing for rapidly g

South Korea's semiconductor exports are expected to total $29.683 billion in 1996, up 40 percent fro

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The fledgling Insurance Broadcast System, scheduled to go on the air early next year, will feature e

WILLIS CORROON SELLS ITS LAST GRYPHON SHARESWillis Corroon Group PLC last week sold its rema

The crisis in data storage facing the insurance industry with the turn of the millennium could be a

The state, which has become Florida's third-largest insurer since Hurricane Andrew, wants to get out

More than 5,500 people will lose their jobs or be transferred if the proposed merger of Union Pacifi

Ireland's overall producer output price index rose 0.2 percent in October compared with September an

Welding together the operations of Union Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Lines would cost $1.3

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150per ton lots &

The North American Free Trade Agreement's cross-border trucking regulations are in place and motor c

As of Dec. 1, 1995 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 241.84 up 0.23 w

Dec. 1, 1995 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

International Petroleum Exchange Nov. 30, 1995Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

New York Mercantile Exchange - Dec. 1, 1995 Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High Low

Dec. 1, 1995 RESELLER RACKUnleaded Mid- Premium-Unlead Prem

Dec. 1, 1995 No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley

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