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Dec. 23, 1997Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

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

'It is a real crisis . . . worse than I thought. Just like a man heaving his last breath, the situat

They say it's an ill wind, and Taiwan is hoping the economic gale buffeting South Korea will help ge

A company planning a high-speed container service on the Atlantic is submitting its final ship desig

For a market that buys between $5 billion to $6 billion a year of U.S. machinery and transport equip

Middle EastJORDANThe Jordanian government has cut customs duties on 46 goods mainly

A Colorado-based firm won permission to set up a $275 million fuel conversion project in Trinidad an

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1236 (Dec. 23, 1997) Previous day - 1244The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

Philippine Airlines, struggling to find its financial footing, said it hopes to expand services to N

California's long-awaited energy deregulation will be delayed from its scheduled Jan. 1 start becaus

Tuesday Dec. 23, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

Dec. 23, 1997U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

SEDGWICK GROUP BUYSDUTCH BENEFITS BUSINESSLONDON - One day after announcing it had bought De

TRAVELERS GROUPLarry Weissman was named a managing director of the New York company's Smith

KEOKUK, Iowa - Business leaders in southeast Iowa say establishing the state's first port authority

FROM THE UNITED STATES / CANADAISRAEL. January 1998. The government of Israel is organizing

KEEFE, BRUYETTE & WOODS INCJames McDermott was elected chairman and chief executive of the W

As of Dec. 23, 1997Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

The inspiration for this column was an incident last month at a seminar in Las Vegas. A forwarder di

Cylink Corp. said it was the first hardware vendor to win U.S. Department of Commerce approval to ex

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Despite the currency turmoil in Asia, two air carriers Tuesday announced new freighter flights betwe

A glut of excess production capacity may induce automobile manufacturers to call for protectionist m

PLANESCIVILIAN AIRCRAFT PROP UPDURABLE GOODS ORDERSWASHINGTON - A surge in o

How to use:Trade leads are sent to the USDA from U.S. agricultural attaches, counselors and

Hold on to your hammer and sickle, class is in at communist Vietnam's new school for capitalism.

OFFERS TO SELL* CHEMICALS. Granular activated carbon; humic acid sodium; humic acid potassiu

Italy's entrepreneurs aren't taking any more chances. A recent slew of corporate legal wrangles is p

Sri Lankan trade unions are intensifying their protests as the government gets ready to sign an agre

The leads are classified and listed by their Harmonized System (HS) codes. U.S. firms should note th

Pilots of U.S. inland river towboats - who push the nation's barges full of grain, coal, steel, fert

905 (Dec. 23, 1997) Previous day - 913The Baltic Exchange in London on Tuesdays and Thursday

A new study released by the American Trucking Associations Foundation predicts that 3 percent-5 perc

Current Textile Quotas:Where the average recent utilization rate indicates full quota utiliz

If I were a risk manager or executive at a Very Large Insurance Company, what would I want for the h

The Asian contagion swept through the stock market last week, forcing all indexes lower, including T

Massive subsidies committed to the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard last week muddle the outlook for U.S.

Threats against President Boris Yeltsin and cross-border raids from Chechnya on the third anniversar