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Friday Oct. 18, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

Mexican commerce officials have launched an unfair-trade probe into a Chinese-made chemical product

Occidental Petroleum Corp.'s earnings jumped nearly 40 percent in the latest quarter, helped by high

South Korea broke ground for two nuclear reactors Friday as the government promised to localize all

Archer Daniels Midland Co. Chairman Dwayne Andreas' offer to resign was only from the board, accordi

A plan that would bring New York's troubled electricity industry to full competition and cut rates f

The firing of Alexander Lebed and the fragile peace in Chechnya may be the latest worries for Wester

MEXICO GIVES MIDCONGAS TRANSPORT PERMITMEXICO CITY - Midcon Gas Natural, a subsidiary of Occ

DuPont and its Atlanta law firm have won a round in a legal battle over the chemical giant's fungici

More than 120 employees of Northeast Utilities won $320,000 in overtime wages after an audit showed

SHIPPING LINESDELAY HIGHER FEESSAN FRANCISCO - Major shipping lines moving U.S. goods to Asi

''As Harry Truman used to say, 'The buck stops with me.' ''

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100%) is as follows

SHIPSBALTIC FREIGHT INDEXUP 27 POINTS TO 1145LONDON - The Baltic Freight Index gaine

Railroads and their customers are waging a fierce regulatory battle that has far-reaching implicatio

Twenty U.S. government and industry representatives head to Brazil this week in search of more sched

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee next month will measure the commercial and leg

The United States has just five months to convince the world's biggest shipbuilding nations that it

PACCAR SALES,EARNINGS DROPBELLEVUE, Wash. - Paccar Inc., the heavy duty truck maker, reporte

AIRFEDEX TO DROP PRICESON 2ND-DAY SERVICEMEMPHIS - Federal Express Corp. said it wil

A contrite Dwayne O. Andreas, chairman of the embattled Archer Daniels Midland Co., apologized Thurs

When it opens next May at the Port of Los Angeles, the 230-acre American President Lines container t

Everyone's talking about the new financial reinsurance products, but so far there's been little inte

AMERICAN RE-INSURANCETHOMAS E. SMITH joined the Princeton, N.J., reinsurer as senion vice pr

Oct. 17, 1996Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 244.41 off 1.83 w

International Petroleum ExchangeOct. 17, 1996 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Oct. 17, 1996No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 32

New York Mercantile Exchange - Oct. 17, 1996Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

Only table.

Oct. 17, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Thursday Oct. 17, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

The Australian consortium building a $1.2 billion hydroelectric project in Laos faces fresh delays a

''The one question I keep hearing is: 'How do we stop this stuff?' ''

TOP US ASIA OFFICIALON LOW-KEY CHINA TRIPBEIJING - The U.S. Government's top Asia official,

Walk fast, runs the Russian adage, and you can overtake misfortune. Walk slowly, and it will overtak

The run on the rand, which has dropped nearly 20 percent this year, is providing a windfall for mult

DEREGULATION PANELEXTENDS ITS SCOPETOKYO - A subcommittee studying deregulation under the Ad

Russian steel executives in meetings this week resisted recommendations for sizable cuts in their pl

They keep lo mein in China hot and the coffee in Europe fresh. The advent of insulated, air-tight an