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Despite a prolonged strike at the General Chemical Co. trona plant, officials expect relatively litt

China has selected 30 more ports and berths for upgrading, an official said Monday, the latest move

European Community transport ministers will make a final attempt next Monday to sway key antitrust i

Nov. 23, 1993 Copper Total, 82,855. Gold Total, .2,443,057.Silver Total, .27

Shipping lines that call at the nation's second-busiest containerport have lost a major ally in thei

India's foreign currency reserves were at $8.076 billion as of Nov. 12, up $2.906 billion from about

International Petroleum Exchange Nov. 23, 1993Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Huge, undiscovered reserves of natural gas possibly lie beneath several basins in the state, a Unive

OPEC calls for independent producers like Norway and the United Kingdom tocut crude producti

In the same week that a confrontation between American Airlines and the flight attendants union resu

Almost a year into the Clinton presidency a number of political positions remain unfilled in the Dep

SHARP RISE IN EXPORTS SPURS TURKEY PRICESTurkey prices have strengthened in the last half of

The House again rejected an effort to scrap the Interstate CommerceCommission early Tuesday

Car-ferry service between Victoria and Seattle will resume in the spring, a government official said

Cuba said it could be forced to modify its economic relations with Mexicobecause of the latt

Mercedes-Benz AG is bartering buses for boatloads of bananas, and hoping to slip around EC trade res

As of Nov. 23, 1993 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained

Canadian fertilizer producers, in settling a U.S. dumping complaint in 1988, responded by joining U.

UAL'S SHORT-HAUL PLAN COULD BOOST PROFITNEW YORK - The plan that UAL Corp. is consid

Nov. 23, 1993 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

Britain cut interest rates to a 16-year low Tuesday in a bid to accelerate economic recovery and off

Tuesday Nov. 23, 1993 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

A jury in Matagorda County, Texas, has awarded a Texas oil company, Rubicon, $417 million in a case

Auto insurance rates for the state's worst drivers may to rise by 12 percent, a spokesman for Insura

Freight consolidators Tuesday charged that the Trans-Atlantic Agreement ocean carriers have violated

ICC PLANS CONFERENCES ON GRAIN RAILCAR SUPPLYWASHINGTON - The Interstate Commerce Co

Standard & Poor's recent downgrade of Cigna Corp.'s flagship life insurance company is "unwarranted,

Until last week the idea of local business leaders and politicians transforming a military airstrip

There is a county in southwestern Illinois without a single red-yellow-green traffic light, where St

Last Wednesday, representatives from the U.S. State, Commerce and Agriculture departments, as well a

The U.S. Customs Service now has the legal authority to implement its automated, paperless system fo

Lykes Bros. Steamship Line is negotiating to buy four containerships, each capable of carrying 1,550

Producer prices in western Germany were unchanged in October from September and were 0.3 percent low

International Petroleum Exchange Nov. 22, 1993Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Hapag-Lloyd AG, the German shipping and tourism group, Monday forecast a higher profit for 1993 desp

The U.S. dollar was mostly lower Monday as traders took profits from last week's rally after the Ger

Already facing millions of dollars in claims brought by unhappy investors, Prudential Securities Inc

The only airplane most Americans have seen leave Casablanca lifted Ingrid Bergman intothe fog. That

SENATE OKS DASCHLE FOR NO. 2 FAA SPOTWASHINGTON - Linda Hall Daschle Saturday receiv

Majesty Cruise Line, threatened with $57,000 in federal penalties for delivering 19 rescued Cuban ra