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

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

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

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

An incoming president of a maritime trade association in Southern California usually could count on

Funds are arriving to help defray the cost of a bone marrow transplant for the leukemia-stricken dau

Britain Monday reported figures showing its economy stuck in a recessionary rut in the third quarter

Six Latin American and Caribbean countries posted economic growth rates this year topping 6 percent,

Up to 90 people were killed when a DC-10 charter plane carrying more than 320 Dutch vacationers cras

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

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

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

China is using joint ventures in the former Soviet Union to illegally ship apparel to the United Sta

Owners of underground fuel tanks in southeastern states can expect a visitfrom their local U

Sylvia Hewitt, a South American fruit grower who lives more than 3,500 milesfrom Miami, expe

Russia plans to introduce a new currency "any day now" and pump a trillion rubles into the economy i

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

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

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

For the week ended Dec. 12, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

TEXAS RAIL OFFICIAL MAY SEEK SENATE SEATHOUSTON - Bob Krueger, Texas railroad commis

TNT Freightways said its Wichita, Kan.-based regional carrier unit TNT Dugan has opened a 32-door te

For a long while last week, it seemed like the new "catastrophe pit" here might have earned its name

VehiCare Corp., a third-party vehicle maintenance company, has become a hit with motor carriers whos

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Standard & Poor's Friday cut Sumitomo Bank's long-term debt rating to "AA- minus" from "AA," citing

France will canvass support today from its European Community partners to freeze global farm reform

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

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New York Mercantile Exchange Dec. 18, 1992Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen Hi

International Petroleum Exchange Dec. 18, 1992Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Japan's economy is too depressed to generate any vigorous recovery before next summer, even though t

Brazil's business community is worried that acting President Itamar Franco may choose as new economy

Siberian diamond bosses said they will soon have a secondary market in diamonds, which could challen

Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee Iacocca said in an interview published Friday that all three major U.S.

Dec. 18, 1992 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent