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Friday May 7, 1993 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

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S. KOREAN FIRM WINS THAI PLANT CONTRACTBANGKOK, Thailand - Thailand's National Petro

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Britain's ports are stepping up their fight for equal trading conditions throughout the European Com

Productivity at the Port of Tilbury has more than doubled since restrictive labor laws were abolishe

The wood products industry has been whipsawed by unprecedented swings in lumber prices as loggers sp

Primary copper prices sank to new lows last week, pushing prices for the scrap material to a yearly

Enough seedlings to replant a forest are being shipped from a West Coast port this week as part of a

Steel markets in the United States and Europe may be groaning about overcapacity, but South Korea's

International Petroleum Exchange May 7, 1993Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)__

The National Grain Board is close to privatizing about a dozen terminal elevators at ports around th

The long-awaited switch to electronic processing of trade documentation is proceeding on schedule, i

Foreign exchange traders predicted the dollar will decline this week because the U.S. economic outlo

Amtrak is bringing German high-speed rail technology to the United States. The government-ow

Ali Abul-Ragheb, Jordan's minister of energy and natural resources, confirmed that the borders betwe

Five South Korean companies plan to bid jointly for oil exploration rights in China's potentially la

World Tariff Services Inc., which provides rate watching, research and analysis and tariff consultin

On Friday, Feb. 26, at precisely 12:18 p.m., a terrorist's car bomb ripped through the parking garag

The threat of a major U.S. coal strike has cast a pall over a conference here aimed at bringing U.S.

The drab, pockmarked countryside of northern France has been full of miners again recently - chisele

United Parcel Service will begin accepting hazardous materials in all classes of its air services be

Because of substantial delays to April shipments, stockpiles of aluminum at Russian ports are estima

The U.S. Export-Import Bank is proposing special trade agreements to help finance U.S. exports for R

Canada's unemployment rate rose to a seasonally adjusted 11.4 percent in April from 11 percent in Ma

Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena distanced himself from a news report that the Department o

The European Community will discuss radical plans today to expose the EC's postal monopolies to comp

Seven months after emerging from receivership, Monarch Life Insurance Co. has filed a $250 million l

May 7, 1993 Copper Total, 113,439. Gold Total, .1,383,181.Silver Total, .268

Oryx Energy Co., which slashed about 1,000 jobs last year, will continue cutting U.S. employment as

American forest-product companies fear that one of their most successful marketing strategies - buil

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Airlines operating all-cargo planes may be forced to cut back their operations because "current carg

Rebuffed by the airline industry on a plan to draft a revenue-sharing agreement as part of new landi

In a document presented to the Justice Department, customs brokers have outlined points that could e

For some in the domestic air freight industry, a hopeful, optimistic winter has given way to an unce

Thursday May 6, 1993 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

Houston's Tenneco Gas is selling a 496-mile pipeline in the upper Midwest to a Minneapolis utility c

Central American coffee producers plan to meet in the next two weeks to finalize an initiative desig

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. will restructure its chemicals and specialties operations in an effort