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International Petroleum Exchange*Nov. 26, 1997 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Nov. 26, 1997No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 29

Nov. 26, 1997RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unle

Dow Chemical Co. and grain processing giant Cargill have formed a joint venture to develop and marke

Nov. 26, 1997U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Dec. 20, 1996 - Nov. 21, 1997 (a graph)*

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CHINA TO CUT INDUSTRIALPRODUCT TARIFFS TO 10 PERCENTBEIJING - China will cut its average tar

California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush is asking a San Francisco judge to reconsider hi

Hong Kong's several years of attempts to create a community-wide mandatory pension plan look like ea

Falling insurance rates for workers compensation spell good news for businesses, but how long will i

NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE CO.Gary G. Benanav joined the life insurer as executive vice preside

CALL SPREADS PRICE OR BID/ASKNational annual '97* 60/80

P&O Nedlloyd, the Anglo-Dutch container shipping line, made a net profit of $25 million in the third

Battered by unfavorable container-shipping trends, Germany's DSR Senator Lines will end the year wit

In what has become an annual event, the city of Long Beach requested a transfer of harbor revenues t

Mediterranean Shipping Co. replaced its storm-fractured containership over the weekend, but experts

Thousands of special interest groups collected $3.8 billion in tax-free contributions last year and

Mosey along almost anywhere in China within sniffing distance of the sea and you're likely to be smo

BLUE STAR LINERolf Kohler was named vice president, western region.He is responsible for all

Two weeks ago it was Michael Jackson. Last week it was a team from the International Monetary Fund.<

He who wields the sword rarely inherits the crown. The line that takes the plunge by ordering one of

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Shipping lines in the trans-Pacific expect 1998 to be another year of strong growth in the trade fro

Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. of Britain and China's Shougang Group agreed to merge t

Negotiations are nearing their final stage for Hong Kong's next container terminal, intended to be i

With airborne trade booming and space at the nation's busiest airports evaporating, the industry is

Long before the recent meltdown in financial markets rocked Asia's tigers and threatened an already

Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has given U.S. officials until October 1998 to come up wit

Still stinging from a refusal by Congress to expand its trade negotiating authority, the Clinton adm

Nov. 26, 1997Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Wednesday Nov. 26, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

Trade officials from the United States and European Union are struggling to avoid a trans-Atlantic s

South Africa's three largest gold mining companies are changing the face of the gold industry throug

'Shame on you for not proactively working together, and with the port authorities, in making master

South Korea will come under heavy pressure to reduce industrial capacity as the International Moneta

The European Union, fearing that Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization has fallen victim

OFFERS TO BUY* MICHELIN OR COMPATIBLE TIRES. Automobile tires, Ms260 Michelin or compatible,

It seems the world is not quite over the ''running dogs of imperialism'' sort of language of the old

Only the Teamsters could reduce trucking to a mere soap opera: Has Ron left for good? Will James bri