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The Senate has confirmed four Clinton nominees to transportation posts. Senate staffer Harol

As lawmakers head out of town this week for an August recess, there were signs that business support

Thursday, Aug. 18, 1994 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York and other sources, are selling r

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index hit a 1994 high of 106.1, up 0.1 points. Of the 18

Aug. 18, 1994 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

The U.S. dollar fell sharply against the Japanese yen Thursday on news the U.S. trade gap with Japan

Aug. 18, 1994 RESELLER RACKUnleaded Mid- Premium-Unlead Pre

Taiwan's gross national product grew 5.75 percent in April-June, compared with 6.15 percent in the y

U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor denied pressing for numerical targets in trade talks with Ja

U.S. wheat industry officials remain optimistic about sales to Russia in 1994-95 (July-June) despite

Fundamental flaws in using and transporting toxic chemicals cause more than 19 spills, explosions an

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 229.53 up 0.36

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in New Zealand fell in the second quarter of the year to 8

As of Aug. 18, 1994 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

For several days this week this farming community has transformed itself into an international tradi

A leading international trade organization is worried California's powerful congressional delegation

A group of about 100 Wisconsin ginseng growers visited Chicago's Chinatown Thursday to protest what

The German government will make the deregulation of state post and telecommunications monopolies one

The Indian government is trying to contain the damage caused by Washington's stop-sale and recall or

A combination of more pressure from the U.S. government and less from the South Korean government ap

"We shall continue the deregulation and debureaucratization . . . (But) deregulation and deb

The number of unemployed in Sweden rose 20,000 in July from June, to 395,000, or 8.8 percent of the

CHINA PLANS NEW RULES ON WAGES, INSURANCENew regulations setting guidelines on personnel man

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural ServiceAgric

(Census basis - in millions of dollars) June 1994 May 1994 June

Exporters receiving payment by letter of credit are dealing with a complicated business transaction.

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

TEA Tea. Contact: K. Paul Associates Ltd., 36 Ketawalamulla Pl., Colombo 9, Sri Lanka. Telep

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

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Like so many shoppers, Yo Murata was happy when he found that perfect pair of blue jeans: comfortabl

Even in a country with 900 million people, robots are starting to take over jobs on the production l

CAMBODIA PHONE DEAL EXPECTED NEXT WEEKPHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A lucrative contract award for

A U.S.-Hong Kong consortium said Thursday it will build the world's longest coal slurry pipeline 500

New York Mercantile Exchange - Aug. 18, 1994 Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High

COAL OUTPUT OFF 6.4 PERCENT IN INDIANA, DOE SAYSCHARLESTON, W. Va. - Indiana coal pr

International Petroleum Exchange Aug. 18, 1994Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

A big company's crumbs can be a small company's feast. Computer giant Sun Microsystems Inc.,