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OPEC producers have a "window of opportunity" to achieve higher oil prices next year if they roll ov

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 228.26 up 0.72 whi

Insurance companies may soon have access to an electronic bulletin board that lists all the homeowne

NET RISES, REVENUE DIPS AT POE & BROWN AGENCYTAMPA, Fla. - Insurance agency Poe & Br

In addition to scrapping their capacity-management program, the 16 shipping lines aligned in the Nor

The prospective buyers of the Central Vermont Railway are trying to occupy the middle ground in a br

The days when the Middle East was viewed as an Aladdin's Cave stuffed with easy-to-snatch petrodolla

Wabash National Corp. said third-quarter 1994 revenue and earnings reached record levelswith a 65 pe

Initial hopes that Finland's decision to join the European Union would boost the pro-EU campaigns in

German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his conservative coalition held onto power this week, gaining a na

HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT PLANS BANK PRIVATIZATIONThe Hungarian government intends to privatize i

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The Austrian energy group OMV announced Monday that its subsidiary was part of a three-company Europ

The 40 percent growth in net income recorded by San Miguel Corp. inthe first nine months of 1994 ref

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has accused an influential Connecticut lobbyist of transferring

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. of Japan and Hyundai Merchant Marine of South Korea likely will hammer ou

The dollar plummeted to a two-year low against the deutsche mark Monday on news German Chancellor He

For Donald McArthur, the urbane president of the Canadian Importers Association, number-crunching ha

Microsoft Corp.'s rocky foray into China has outraged state regulators and the local trade press, bu

Nigeria's government has signaled it will in principle avoid entering new joint ventures with foreig

As of Oct. 17, 1994 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

India, one of the world's largest gold consumers, is expected to import a record 300 metric tons of

Greek and Turkish shipowners pledged last week to fight together against restrictive practices that

State-run Dredging Corp. of India Ltd. is planning to revamp its business to compete with mounting o

AMERICAN RE-INSURANCE CO. (Princeton, N.J.) - Kenneth W. Kaczmarek and Byron E. Wilson were appointe

FAMILIES SUING SHELL IN FATAL TANKER BLASTKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Shell Oil said Mo

Motor carriers nationwide are preparing for a chaotic year as the intrastate trucking markets in som

Freightliner Corp. led the heavy-truck industry to the strongest September sales in history, as near

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India's official wholesale price index for all commodities for the Sept. 25- Oct. 1 week rose 8.27 p

A three-member fact-finding board appointed by President Clinton has recommended that members of the

CP RAIL TRAIN DERAILS, SPILLS METHANOLLETHBRIDGE, Alberta - Emergency crews evacuate

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Japan and Russia issued an international tender on Friday for the construction of a radioactive wast

VIETNAM HAMPERED IN OIL SPILL CLEANUPHANOI, Vietnam - A lack of emergency cleanup eq

YELTSIN GREETS QUEEN; COLD WAR THAW BEGINSQueen Elizabeth arrived in Moscow Monday on a grou

Anatoly Sobchak fits so comfortably into the ornate, walnut-paneled dining room on the sixth floor o

India on Monday deregulated interest rates in the latest phase of a bold economic reform program, an

Monday Oct. 17, 1994 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

Countries of the Asian subcontinent are making strenuous efforts to push exports into the Middle Eas