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Salman Rushdie may turn out to be one of the best friends Iran ever had.Last week's easing o

As I sat there getting writer's cramp from taking notes at the 1998 conference of the International

Here's a flash for cellular phone manufacturers looking for a next flight out to product-hungry reta

Germany made a turn to the left with this week's decision to oust Chancellor Helmut Kohl in favor of

FUTURES - September 25, 1998 OPEN INTEREST AND SALES - September 24, 1998All life

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,500-$1,600 per ton lo

In keeping with a pledge to the United States and other trading partners, China said Monday it will

After last week's resounding defeat in the House of fast-track trade negotiating authority, there ma

The New York foreign exchange rates below are selling rates among trading banks of $1 million and mo

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 202.82 off 1.10 wh

As of Sept. 28, 1998Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

The opening of the Cyprus-U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week reflects increasing commercial ties bet

September 28, 1998Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily repre

International Petroleum ExchangeSeptember 25, 1998 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Sept. 28, 1998No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 2

Sept. 28, 1998RESELLER RACK UNLEADED MID- PREMIUM-UNL

Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin on Monday re-emphasized the failure of the Long-Term Capital Managem

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Nov. 21, 1997 - Sept. 28, 1998 (a graph)

New York Mercantile Exchange - September 25, 1998Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High

Propane prices will inch up less than a half-penny a gallon in the next two years because of a feder

Brazilian Finance Minister Pedro Malan will travel to Washington on Tuesday to take part in the join

Sept. 25, 1998U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Pridiyathorn Devakula, president of Thailand's Export-Import Bank, said that, despite strict conditi

Bangladesh is seeking $335 million in emergency aid from the World Bank and the International Moneta

Sept. 28, 1998This table shows the vessels scheduled to call at U.S. coal terminals and the

Houston-based Enron Corp. will soon open offices here and in Monterrey with an eye to developing bus

'I think we have to make the assumption that it is dead. But sometimes when you close a door, you op

Swiss voters approved a new truck tax in a national referendum Sunday, paving the way for jump-start

Federal Maritime Commission investigators will travel to three West Coast cities beginning Oct. 6 to

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Monday Sept. 28, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd. christened its second ice-strengthened vessel for use on the run

Cash-rich Taiwan seems to be having difficulty deciding where to put its money, and some analysts su

Cargo destined for the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo is piling up at Tanzania's

A Norwegian freighter was refloated and entered Kaohsiung harbor to unload a cargo of ethylene glyco

Initiatives on both sides of the Atlantic to charge shipowners for the use of port infrastructure ar

Construction will start on a replacement airport in this capital of southern Guangdong province at t

The following tradeleads appear exclusively in print in The Journal of Commerce. The leads are curre

The strike against flying partner Northwest Airlines Corp. cost KLM Royal Dutch Airlines about $26 m

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