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Venezuela's privatization program, delayed after February's coup attempt, is back on track with the

REGIONAL BLOCS Business with Slovenia and Croatia. Sept. 29. Washington. Contact: U.S. Busin

The privatization of British Coal, one of the last major sales planned by Britain's ruling Conservat

New York Mercantile Exchange Sept. 25, 1992Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High Lo

International Petroleum Exchange Sept. 25, 1992Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Sept. 25, 1992 No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley

Sept. 25, 1992 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

After five years of operation, Namico has survived a massive market turn and hopes to begin writing

Insurers have long tried to change the industry's poor image. They say they are increasingly misunde

A group representing mutual companies selling property/casualty insurance products wants its members

Sept. 25, 1992 JAPANFinancial FuturesPrecious MetalsTokyo Commodity

Sept. 25, 1992 RESELLER Rack_Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid-

Sept. 25, 1992 Copper Total, 46,563. Gold Total, .1,943,010.Silver To

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 201.40 up 0.31 which compares

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago9/25 9/24 Change % Change: 9/1

Pennzoil Co. of Houston has all but given up hope that the Internal Revenue Service will let it skip

More than 1,700 mutual insurers will be gathering in Boston today through Wednesday to explore issue

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index moved down slightly last week as prices for nonferrou

UNIONS REJECT OFFER FROM ALCOA, REYNOLDSPITTSBURGH - Following an effort to bargain

Comments from French aluminum producer Pechiney that it is considering reducing output next year cou

Federal regulators charge Unimet Trading Corp. and Unimet Credit Corp. with participating in schemes

Sept. 25, 1992 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represen

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,200-$1,300per ton lots &

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) Sept. 25, 1992Bid AskedCopper_

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have recycled up to half the plastics, or fluff, recovere

News last week that coffee-producing and consuming countries were apparently moving closer to reachi

SAMSUNG GROUP, LINDE TO BUILD CHINA PLANTSouth Korea's Samsung Group and Germany's Linde AG

Producers from the International Coffee Organization have reacted positively to European Community a

INDIA LIKELY TO HALT ZINC METAL IMPORTSNEW DELHI, India - India is likely to stop im

The European Commission is close to a compromise that would allow it to approve a major asset swap b

Canada is meeting all of its sales commitments for wheat and is loading high- quality wheat at East

As of Sept. 25, 1992 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list pric

The contraption with the fancy name sits next to an old landfill on an island in the middle of the S

The alphabet soup of federal environmental laws is a source of confusion for many business managers,

A less-than-focused approach to export promotion, for which the recently formed U.S.-Asian Environme

After months of pressuring the Bush administration to enforce a troubled chip trade pact with Japan,

Drug traffickers continue to use Panama to launder millions of dollars in illicit earnings but are n

Several agencies are downgrading ratings of the Continental Corp. following a restructuring of the c

Helmut Jahn spent the roaring '80s etching his distinctive mark on the skylines of American cities i

Torrential rainstorms in France last week have left underwriters awash in claims, buta state-run fun