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The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 202.60 off 0.33 which compare

Phibro Energy U.S.A.'s 985 employees here and in Texas City will be spared the ax in the company's m

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A proposal by major ocean carriers to limit the number of off-dock container yards in Thailand and S

Norwegian industrial production fell 0.9 percent in October, compared with a 4.1 percent increase in

The European Community's chief financial official said Wednesday he will press EC leaders next week

All the ingredients are now in place for a comprehensive reform of the health insurance system, than

Passing the title and ownership of goods in international transactions has confounded exporters for

A major British beverage exporter has been hit with a 30 percent increase in the cost of shipping it

Billions of dollars in tax-exempt corporate profits on deposit in Puerto Rico could some day be used

With fresh economic data suggesting the U.S. economy finally may be on the mend, some recession-numb

An increasing number of reinsurance contracts will be "made in the U.S.A." as the "deteriorating" Lo

UNION TEXAS WON'T SELL PETROCHEMICAL BUSINESSUnion Texas Petroleum Holdings Inc. announced T

RUSSIA DOUBLES PRICES PAID FOR GRAINThe Russian government has doubled the price paid for gr

Grain imports by Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are expected to drop sharply in the 1990

A Minneapolis environmental group filed a lawsuit this week against a local printing company it said

Prudential Property and Casualty Co., Florida's third-largest insurer, will stop writing new residen

Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corp. Thursday signed a research alliance with the Scripps Research Institute

The chief executive of British Airways indicated some flexibility Thursday on the deadline for compl

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

Dec. 3, 1992 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Western Germany's industrial production fell a seasonally adjusted 2.18 percent in October from Sept

Dec. 3, 1992 RESELLER RACKUnleaded Mid- Premium-Unlead Premium-Unle

Enron Corp. and Transco Energy Co. of the United States submitted the highest bids to purchase 70 pe

The Australian government is inviting petroleum companies to apply for 17 new offshore exploration a

The Tokyo International Financial Futures Exchange was weakened since March by the withdrawal of mor

The price of palladium, a relatively rare metal used by the electrical and automotive industries alo

Fundamental differences between consumers and producers point to a long road ahead before the signin

Dec. 3, 1992 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Kuwait will try to keep out of the OPEC quota system until it has restored production capacity to 2.

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California's Supreme Court ruled that reinsurers can apply the money owed to them by a bankrupt insu

The funds for a long-planned bridge that will be the first fixed link between the Canadian mainland

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

Precious metal prices are likely to remain weak despite an improved outlook in market fundamentals,

MASS. SEEKS CHANGE IN WORKERS COMP RATEThe administration of Gov. William Weld of Massachuse

The board of Mercantile & General, Britain's biggest reinsurance company, is acquiring a very Scandi

China is sweeping away more than four decades of socialist-style business practices to let enterpris

China has bought an orbiting U.S. telecommunications satellite, giving a big boost to its capacity f

Although Mexico's petroleum sector is generally off-limits to foreigners, the North American free-tr