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The gas plants and export berths at Qatar's new Ras Laffan industrial city represent the biggest pot

The Nigerian government has asked the army to intervene in the country's worsening fuel crisis. It a

SAFETY BOARD PROBESMISSILE FLIGHT REPORTSWASHINGTON - The National Transportation Safety Boa

The White House is expected to name a new chief of the Federal Aviation Administration by today or e

Richard Goldberg was fighting mad and he needed help.Massachusetts was threatening to seize

The U.S. dollar dropped against the yen Thursday after Japanese officials threatened to intervene to

An article on Page 1A of the April 10 edition, ''Textile producers sue Limited for fraud,'' misspell

The day after their conviction for covering up a political slush fund, the chairman of Italy's auto

A $90 million project to allow shipping alliance partners to use the same terminals at the Port of O

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

April 10, 1997No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 2

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,524-$1,595 per ton lo

April 10, 1997Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

April 10 1997U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Only table.

China's Foreign Ministry refused to comment Thursday on the outcome of two days of talks with Vietna

The United States and the European Union indicated Thursday they were close to resolving their diffe

The Journal of Commerce industrial price index declined to 105.0 Thursday from 105.1 on Wednesday, s

The European Union is laying plans to prevent the United States from seizing the initiative in globa

Mexico's exports are expected to reach $110 billion this year, up from $96 billion in 1996, helping

A presidential commission set up to study America's growing trade deficit with Asia is deadlocked ab

''I would say part of the problem is that there seems to be no control over who works on the docks.

Karl D. Kuiper, president of Grindmaster Corp., has learned how precious space is to the Japanese. T

OFFERS TO BUY* PLASTIC PIPE CUTTERS & HOT AIR GUNS. Contact: Borislav Raltchev, Fintech PLC,

As of April 10, 1997Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

Thursday April 10, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

Twenty-four Asian airport construction projects could produce more than $7.2 billion in U.S. exports

April 10, 1997Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Lo

April 10, 1997RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unl

EXXON, HONG KONG FIRMPLAN CHINA POWER PLANTHONG KONG - Exxon Corp. and Hong Kong's China Lig

China's economic reforms threaten the jobs of nearly 100 million rural workers who have little prosp

Only one insurance company executive out of seven considers the Internet a major part of his future,

Trans-Pacific shipping lines, buoyed by stronger-than-anticipated imports from Asia in early 1997, a

Allianz, the German insurance group, has taken steps to pay any reasonable outstanding insurance cla

Thursday, April 10, 1997Percentages Per YearINTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, April 12, 1996 - April 10, 1997 (a graph)

In a move designed to tap into public anxiety about the local effects of globalization, the AFL-CIO

OFFERS TO BUY* CURRENCIES. Send information on: quantity, minimum with rolls and extension,

Plans to create the world's largest fleet of refrigerated cargo ships have been delayed a few weeks

U.S. negotiators left Rome this week with a promise from Italian officials to meet in Washington thi