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More than $3 billion is being earmarked for new and upgraded power plants in China over the next few

Britain's High Court dealt a stunning blow to Prime Minister John Major's government Monday by rulin

At a time of heightened trade tension with Japan and Europe, the United States is finding an increas

Dec. 21, 1992 This table shows the vessels scheduled to call at U.S. coal terminals and the

Slovakia plans to privatize the controversial Gabcikovo hydroelectric dam on the river Danube and ho

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 203.68 off 0.05 which compares w

Dec. 21, 1992 Copper Total, 86,583. Gold Total, .1,511,244.Silver Tot

Florida Gas Transmission Co., a unit of Houston-based Citrus Corp., has begun an "open season" for n

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Iran has proposed that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries make deeper production cuts

Despite a fresh wave of new U.S. cocoa buying by U.S. manufacturers, cocoa prices are expected to mo

Prices rose across the board at the Tanzania Coffee Marketing Board's auction late last week, reflec

A "duopoly" by British electricity generators National Power and PowerGen was behind higher prices i

DEMAND FOR ALUMINUM SEEN WEAK IN E. ASIAEast Asian aluminum demand will remain weak until in

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago12/21 12/18 Change % Change: 11/

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,150-$1,250per ton lots &

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) Dec. 21, 1992Bid AskedCopper_

Monday Dec. 21, 1992 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

Dec. 21, 1992 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

1375 (Dec. 21, 1992) Previous day - 1373 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

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Transportation News Ticker The dry cargo and tanker fixtures listed herewith and compiled in

A makeshift hearth on the floor of the ship's galley bears stark testimony to the plight of seven lo

The unpredictable course of events in the former Soviet Union could make the difference between a me

Eighty years after the Titanic sank into the North Atlantic southeast of Nova Scotia, its story stil

Ocean carriers that set rates together for moving cargoes from the United States to points in Asia h

DOW CHEMICAL TO TAKE HEALTH BENEFITS CHARGEMIDLAND, Mich. - Dow Chemical Co. said Mo

C.I.F. PREMIUMS RISE ON ALUMINUM TO JAPANTOKYO - Premiums for aluminum ingots delive

The validity of Friday's U.S. Department of Agriculture seven-state cattle- on-feed report was immed

Massachusetts officials have named Joseph J. Donovan the state's new liaison to its biotechnology co

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's initial orange crop report this past October gave all the justi

A Chilean-based company, Empresa Minera de Mantos Blancos SA, has won a tender to buy Peru's unexplo

Rhone-Poulenc Inc. expects to choose a personal computer system and software developer by year-end s

Hurricane Andrew, quite properly, has been labeled the nation's most costly natural disaster. But th

Thai Olefins Co. has signed a contract with its six shareholders, requiring that they buy products f

The British government bowed to demands from the U.K. insurance industry to act as a "reinsurer of l

Nine life and health insurers have been placed on A.M. Best Co.'s "watch list" of companies whose ra

Two prominent Southern California auto-insurance agencies that specialized incut-rate covera

K&K Insurance Group and Cigna have developed a program specifically for non- profit community center

S&P DOWNGRADES ST. PAUL SENIOR DEBTStandard & Poor's Corp. has downgraded the senior debt ra