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Eleven cars of a 118-car Consolidated Rail Corp. freight train derailed Wednesday, and one of the ca

A Chicago Board of Trade plan to expand its trading floor to 88,000 square feet, sealing its claim a

As of Aug. 17, 1994 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

ASARCO, 2 PARTNERS WIN RUSSIAN GOLD BIDAsarco Inc. said it and its joint-venture partners ha

Central American presidents will study a proposal to form a regional coffee group when they meet in

Aug. 17, 1994 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 229.17 off 0.27 w

Platinum surpluses, built on recent sluggishness of Western economies, are dwindling as primary dema

New rulings, court challenges and administrative appeals are just a few of the elements adding uncer

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

The major U.S. chemical manufacturers tightened their belts over the past few years, cutting costs,

Efforts by Indonesia to upgrade its telecommunications are paying off outside the country as well as

"Authorities are too weak to fight our gangsters, and they have too many ties with the criminal worl

JAPANESE OFFICIAL SAYS TRADE SOLUTION UNLIKELYTOKYO - A senior Japanese government o

India has told textile exporters to put rayon skirts through a test of fire to persuade Americans to

Developing shortages of cotton in Asia are said to be doing wonders for fiber- related chemical pric

Washington state apple growers are coming off a record harvest coupled with record export levels and

HoW tO Use: Under the U.S. government's American Business Initiative, the Eastern Europe Bus

1507 (Aug. 17, 1994) Previous day - 1505 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

GLOSSARY AR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

Producer prices in western Germany rose 0.1 percent in July from June and were 0.4 percent higher th

Aug. 17, 1994 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

HoW tO Use: Under the U.S. government's American Business Initiative, the Eastern Europe Bus

The government has lifted its three-year suspension of the Japanese ship- classification society Nip

HoW tO Use: Under the U.S. government's American Business Initiative, the Eastern Europe Bus

HoW tO Use: Under the U.S. government's American Business Initiative, the Eastern Europe Bus

For the first time since the unraveling of the Soviet bloc, the Czech Republic's economy is growing.

The Maritime Administration on Wednesday unveiled an industry-government working agreement it said i

Months after Brazil began randomly slashing import duties in support of its developing economic-stab

Tugboats, which normally go about their business alone and with little fanfare, will be pitted again

The first real peace dividend from the series of accords signed by Israel and her Arab neighbors has

Royal Nedlloyd Group NV reported a second-quarter net profit of 25 million guilders ($14.7 million),

PROBE OF BARGE EXPLOSION CENTERS ON VACUUM HOSEBATON ROUGE, La. - Use of a section o

S. KOREAN PROFITS UP SHARPLY IN FIRST HALFSEOUL, South Korea - Profits at South Kore

A leading Mexican cement producer has bought a stake in a Trinidadian producer that hopes to gain ac

Nearly two years of shipper complaints against the Trans-Atlantic Agreement (TAA) conference of ocea

These tractor and crane movements were the largest recorded from port documents, during the two week

Twenty sites still polluted from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill are included on a list of 122 bodie

A story on Page 11A Aug. 9, headlined "Fidelity Mutual Sends Rehabilitation Summary," should have sa

Farmers Insurance executives are celebrating a court decision overturning a $58 million judgment aga