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JAPAN PLANS TO CUT UTILITIES' USE OF CRUDEJapan will substantially reduce its dependence on

Bolivia is expected to keep running on the road to privatization - and may even pick up the pace - u

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 217.33 off 0.68 which compares

By late 1995, Laidlaw Environmental Services Ltd. hopes to begin operating a state-of-the-art kiln d

World oil markets, where alarm bells are ringing among producers over a threatened glut, may have to

Signaling the shipping industry's optimism about economic prospects behind the former Iron Curtain,

The U.S. Maritime Administration is considering new and potentially tougher criteria, including econ

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural ServiceAgric

A parliamentary committee investigating India's worst financial scandal is divided over what punishm

Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa will formally announce his resignation today after a humilia

Natural gas production in the former Soviet Union fell 1.9 percent to 318,377 million cubic meters i

The European Community Commission is planning to take "revenge" on a company that closed a plant in

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Eden Air Freight is shutting down less than six months after it was acquired by CRST International,

Germany is balking at a request by the Czech government to expand the Elbe River to allow larger ves

In the old days, in 1991, Lithuania's big Mazeikiai oil refinery supplied the Baltic states and all

Supporters of the North American free-trade agreement have kicked off a ''grass-roots" letter-writin

Wednesday July 21, 1993 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represen

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Sri Lanka wants to develop its fledgling electronics industry to help propel the island into the 21s

STATE REGULATORS SEIZE MIAMI P/C INSURERMIAMI - State regulators on Tuesday took con

Midwesterners who have had enough flooding to last a lifetime are about to discover they do not have

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

CANADA'S RAIL STRIKE UNLIKELY TO STOP COPPERJapanese buyers of copper concentrate are unlike

Nonferrous metal prices were mostly higher Wednesday as traders focused on expectations of higher pr

Coca-Cola Co. announced Wednesday a joint venture with locally based Kerry group to invest in bottli

Japan's aviation negotiators likely will press the United States to drop threatened sanctions agains

France is preparing an agriculture policy document in hopes of influencing European Community foreig

Sixteen former officers of a key maritime union will be arraigned in federal court next week on char

Two Japanese ship lines - Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines - have finished restructurin

In a sharp turnaround, AMR Corp., parent of American Airlines, earned $47 million, or 39 cents a sha

The House easily approved a $22.7 billion budget measure that cuts the Federal Maritime Commission's

The growth of China's population - the world's biggest - is holding up economic development and stra

Consumer confidence in Britain stabilized in July after June's large falls, the Gallup polling organ

CHUBB INCOME JUMPED IN THE SECOND QUARTERWARREN, N.J. - Chubb Corp. reported an incr

In New York City's deadliest neighborhoods, a morbid phenomenon has emerged - murder insurance for c

Brazil will hold off for now on adoption of a 10 percent import tariff on seed cotton in order to st

The U.S. midsection's waterlogged rail and highway network, while slowly improving operations, was s

Wednesday, July 21, 1993 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE) and the American Train Dispatchers Association merged