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

Thursday, Dec. 18, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Chemical Valley, a multibillion-dollar complex of some 20 oil refineries and petrochemical plants pr

Three-fourths of 500 Californians surveyed supported a gasoline tax hike to help reduce air pollutio

IMF BOLIVIA - $127 million over the next three years to help cope with deep recession, risin

U.S. foreign aid for most countries has been cut heavily, with many to receive less than half the am

The United States will cut its foreign trade deficit by only a few billiondollars next year,

Hong Kong, The Board Room of Asia, as it likes to be known, is once more thriving with the economic

Iraq was still holding OPEC hostage on a new crude production accord late Thursday, after rejecting

December 18, 1986 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gall

GENERAL NEWSCreating temporary agencies to solve major social and economic problems may prov

Estek, an Eastman Kodak Co. subsidiary which makes equipment for the semiconductor manufacturers, ha

New claims for state unemployment insurance benefits were made by 371,000 persons during the week en

GENERAL NEWS Creating temporary agencies to solve major social and economic problems may pro

Peruvian exports and earnings from copper and zinc rose during January- Septembe r over the same per

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

Flying Tiger Line Gets A New Lease on LifeTiger International's board of directors approved

The U.S. chemical specialty market is about to get a new import from Japan. Tokyo Ohka Kogyo

An Israeli company will replace a Palestinian electric company in supplying electricity to Jewish co

Someday, people may be able to get information and advice about selling California crops abroad at a

Japan's overall crude steel production in fiscal 1986, a term ending next March, is expected to drop

The women working at the Evergreen Group's headquarters building here all wear bright green jackets.

The application of All Nippon Airways, Japan's largest domestic airline, tolaunch regularly schedule

Company officials say they may have to liquidate a California subsidiary of Mission Insurance Group

Americans' personal income posted a moderate 0.3 percent gain in November, while personal spending

The Finance Ministry presented a set of proposals to revise a tax system that Europeans contend hamp

The administration's intention to propose changes in the sugar program next year is seen here largel

A volcano that erupted last month on a small island and forced 11,000 people to evacuate exploded ag

For years irrigation farmers in the low-rainfall Texas High Plains have had to drill deeper and pump

Jaruzelski to Visit Italy WARSAW, Poland - Polish Leader Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski will pay a

American Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Wakefield, Mass., is selling its A.M. Life Insurance Co. subsi

University Bans Sale Of Tobacco on CampusGeorgia State University students no longer will be

Creating temporary government agencies may be the key to solving some major social and economic prob

France's state-controlled oil group, Compagnie Francaise des Petroles, or Total-CFP, will concentrat

Exxon Chemical's subsidiary in France, SOCABU, has completed a 30 percent expansion of its Vistalon

Cutbacks Prop Up Mercury MarketThe market for mercury is reported to be strengthening becaus

The U.S. dollar declined against most major foreign currencies Thursday on fresh signs of a sluggish

The European Community Commission Thursday approved an accord among nine major computer companies to

The Tennessee Valley Authority completed four purchases in the spot coal market ranging in size from

Bertelsmann AG, West Germany's biggest media company, has completed the acquisition of Doubleday &