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SPOT COCOA RETREATS; TRADERS TAKE PROFITSNEW YORK - Spot cocoa prices slumped beneat

Tropical storms sweeping across Asia have swamped rice-growing regions in the Philippines and Vietna

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

The proportion of foreign capital investing in China power generation could jump to 25 percent from

1402 (Oct. 6, 1993) Previous day - 1406 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

The world's refrigerated fleet of big ships will grow only 1 percent this year and decrease 4 percen

Officials with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed to implement tariff cuts by 1994, S

The Port of Oakland has named Leo R. Brien as its new director of maritime activities. To ta

The outlook is bullish for U.S. beef as exports to Asia steadily increase and countriesthere elimina

In 1974, Hawaii became the nation's only state to implement employer-mandated health insurance.<

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The Federal Trade Commission will continue to scrutinize General Electric Co.' s future railcar purc

Scios Nova Inc. said Monday it has formed a new company, Guilford Pharmaceuticals Inc., to develop d

U.S. apparel manufacturers must make a commitment to export if the industry is to become more intern

Japanese and African officials exchanged strong language Wednesday over the possibility of reduced a

Tremont Corp. announced that union employees at its principal operating subsidiary, Titanium Metals

New businesses that take over abandoned industrial sites would be less liable for environmental heal

Germany's controversial recycling system, Duales System Deutschland, has survived a close inspection

Russian oil company Lukoil has extended its agreement to lease the Nafta refinery in return for oil

Dry cleaners now have to make sure they leave the air as clean as your clothes. But complyin

Regulations on sulfur dioxide will force Ohio's largest coal user to significantly reduce its use of

Dow Chemical Co. Tuesday unveiled a new technology to make polystyrene packaging foam that avoids th

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Wednesday approved a plan for an independe

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The European Community Commission launched an investigation Wednesday into the $445 million injectio

A group of shipboard unions urged President Clinton to appoint a Cabinet- level official to coordina

Germany's transportation minister said Wednesday his government will take an active role in deregula

Less than two weeks after approving legislation to study and prevent insurance industry discriminati

BP TO CONTINUE SALES OF JET FUEL ON W. COASTNEW YORK - BRITISH PETROLEUM CO. PLC wil

AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO. (Basking Ridge, N.J.) - Walter J. Sousa was named president and c

SCHENKER INTERNATIONAL (Jersey City, N.J.) - Schenker International, a large customs broker, freight

The rate-making conference for ocean carriers moving goods from Asia to North America has announced

The Ontario provincial government and the city of Toronto are mounting an 11th-hour offensive to pre

A Deere & Co. unit that manufactures riding lawn mowers expects to save more than $13 million by swi

State regulators approved Allstate Insurance Co.'s request for rate increases for homeowners insuran

Oct. 6, 1993 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

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Hundreds of pulp workers across British Columbia are being idled as the industry cuts production to