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Peter A. Lavelle and Kathleen Getch Lavelle, as the first ocean freight futures traders on the West

Continental Airlines has enough insurance to pay claims resulting from Sunday's crash in Denver that

Brazilian exporters nervously awaited the list of products on which the United States will impose pu

A strike threat loomed larger for Air Canada's operations following the breakdown last weekend of co

British Caledonian Airways is still interested in a partnership with a foreign airline if British Ai

America West Receives Last 757 From EasternEastern Airlines, which is laying off 3,500 emplo

A Swedish-American team that drilled one of the world's deepest holes - nearly four miles - has run

Mobil Exploration & Producing U.S. Inc., a unit of Mobil Oil Corp., said it recently completed two s

The Middle East Economic Survey, a respected oil industry weekly reported Monday that a buildup of 2

November 16, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gall

North Sea oil prices remained under pressure in thin European trading last week, with Brent Blend si

Hubco Exploration Inc. made a field extension discovery in the Lake Fortuna field, St. Bernard Paris

Egypt has decided to reduce export prices for all blends of crude oil by $1 a barrel in the second h

Oil Price Discounts May Be New StrategyOil price discounting by Persian Gulf producers is ra

Arthur Scargill, the firery leader of the National Union of Mineworkers, putting his popularity to t

Plans to commercially develop the first oil field in China's Pearl River Mouth Basin were announced

Pilgrim Nuclear Plant To Get 3rd GeneratorPLYMOUTH, Mass. - Boston Edison Co. said that it w

Cyprus Minerals Co., Englewood, Colo., is seeking $1.07 billion from LTV Steel Co. Inc. for breach o

New questions are being raised about a Reagan administration proposal that critics say could cost ta

The Maritime Administration's proposal to ease its policy prohibiting non- citizens from chartering

Soviet ship chartering activity has increased in line with recent wheat purchases from the United St

East Coast Overseas Corp. has been named the Chicago representative of Pakistan National Shipping Co

As the frequency of direct cargo sailings between Philadelphia and ports around the world has plumme

Representatives of the world's top bauxite-producing countries are calling for a standstill in bauxi

A Swedish company, Advanced Underwater Technology, run by researchers at Chalmers University of Tech

Sequa Corp., formerly Sun Chemical Corp., reported third-quarter net income of $16.9 million, or $1.

The U.S.-dominated electronics sector in Malaysia is poised for further growth with fresh investment

Rohm & Haas Co.'s specialty polymers group is raising the prices of all its Acrysol water soluble ac

Sales of consumer pesticides and fertilizers are expected to reach $2 billion at the manufacturers'

Genentech Inc.'s bright future, illuminated by Friday's federal approval for tissue plasminogen acti

Moleculon Inc. announced that it has completed an agreement with a U.S. subsidiary of F.H. Faulding

Dow Chemical Co. has moved into the seed biotechnology market with the acquisition of United AgriSee

Union Carbide Denies Bhopal SettlementDANBURY, Conn. - Union Carbide Corp. has denied report

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

Israeli officials conjure up a dour joke as they survey the likely impact of the Wall Street crash o

President Reagan said Monday he would seek to quell turbulent currency markets through economic coor

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

Complete privatization of Philippine government-owned assets will be well under way" by the beginnin

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

Mon., Nov. 16, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.