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The Clinton administration's budget office is resisting a provision in a defense budget bill that pr

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

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

International Petroleum Exchange Aug. 25, 1993Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

In an effort to make its Catlettsburg refinery more efficient, Ashland Oil Inc. announced plans to r

The worst appears to be over. The spate of sudden sinkings of giant ore-carrying ships due t

Do the security interests of the United States require that a fleet of merchant ships _including tan

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York, are selling rates among trading

The article headlined "LA Port Pulls Out of Alameda Rail Project," which appeared on Page 1A Aug. 20

Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1993 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Transportation and Logistics Management Courses. Starting Sept. 2 at Nassau Community College,Garden

Aug. 25, 1993 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,230-$1,260per ton lots &

A cruise ship that ran aground in Alaska's Glacier Bay last week is to come here for repairs after a

A reduction in sugar imports by the United States will take about US$19 million off export earnings

One of Burlington Northern Railroad's main routes across the Cascade Mountains reopened Wednesday af

With two on-dock railyards operating, several construction projects under way and planned steep incr

Russia and Poland signed an agreement Wednesday to build a 2,485-mile gas pipeline from Russia's Arc

Aug. 25, 1993 JAPANFinancial FuturesPrecious MetalsTokyo Commodity E

While Canada's National Transportation Agency has given CP Rail System the green light to abandon so

DURABLE GOODS Percent changeElectrical equipment -1.1%Trans. equipment -18.

The U.S. dollar rose Wednesday on expectations that the Bundesbank will lower German interest rates

INSURANCE WORKERS PLAN STRIKE IN INDIANEW DELHI, India - About a million workers fro

A contractor has started work to repair a beam supporting the roadway of the Florida Avenue Bridge i

The five countries sharing the Caspian Sea agreed to set up a caviar cartel, Iran's Irna news agency

A potential shortage of U.S.-flag vessels this fall could create "a problem" for upcoming U.S. food

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) Aug. 25, 1993Bid AskedCopper_

American climatologists say the amount of ozone-depleting chemicals in the atmosphere will peak befo

The Maritime Administration has abandoned its February proposal to allow foreign-owned companies to

Shareholders of Bermuda's Oil Insurance Ltd., or OIL, a mutual insurance company that provides prope

Treatment fees that mining companies pay to smelters to process copperconcentrates are expec

As of Aug. 25, 1993 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been called everything from savior to Satan in the wake of this

The World Bank will consider proposals today to give outsiders more say in how it hands out tens of

Exploration drilling for oil and gas in Southeast Asia, booming just a few years ago, is expected to

CONTAINER MAKER SEEKS 200 MORE WORKERSMONON, Ind. - Monon Corp., a truck trailer and

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

Salvage experts entered a World War II German U-boat Wednesday to locate and remove torpedoes and am

Italian retail sales rose 3.1 percent year-on-year in the first five months of 1993, sharply down fr

Palladium futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange plunged Wednesday, with the active December de