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Copper exports from Poland's Kombinat Gorniczo Hutniczy Miedzi mine, where miners are on strike, are

One of the most bizarre experiments in modern economic history ended quietly Monday, and economists

Carl J. Timpanaro was named managing vice president of the Tampa agency. Mr. Timpanaro formerly mana

A former insurance executive is headed to Albania to help disband a government-controlled insurance

Britain's newest bulk cargo port has won its first contract, a deal to handle more than 500,000 metr

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The number of U.K. residents jobless for more than a year jumped by 64,000 in the three months throu

Exports of machinery made in eastern Germany could be halved this yearbecause the Commonweal

Tuesday, Aug. 18, 1992 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Bonneville Power Administration, the Pacific Northwest's major source of electrical power, said expe

New York Mercantile Exchange Aug. 17, 1992CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello and Bolivian President Jaime Paz Zamora, as expected, T

The insurance industry is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide once and for all whether it had en

The article headlined "MetLife Announces Joint Venture in Mexico" on Page 12A, Aug. 17, should have

The Maritime Administration wants to sell 12 obsolete reserve fleet vessels that will be scrapped in

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

A group of ex-airline employees plan to start a new, no-frills $99 air shuttle service next month be

US TO START FOOD AIRLIFT TO WAR-TORN SOMALIANAIROBI, Kenya - The United States will begin a

Unfazed by gloomy forecasts, Finnish companies are pursuing the Russian market again, reviving expor

Finnish businessmen are looking for a Russian tonic to cure their Soviet hangover. The forme

Lawmakers are investigating why State Farm Group has suspended writing new auto policies in Texas.

Jack Tilley was named senior vice president of the company's steamship agency, stevedoring and wareh

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RESELLER Rack_Prices are in cents per gallon Unleaded Mid- Premium-Un

Exxon Corp. Tuesday continued its heavy buying of New York harbor spot gasoline following an unsched

Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing the lowest and highest pric

Construction is about to begin at the Port of Grays Harbor on a $750,000 warehouse for use by a comp

Serbia's 1992-93 sugar harvest is likely to meet domestic needs, but civil war and the United Nation

Norton Strommen may not be a household name, but when the chief meteorologist for the U.S. Departmen

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago8/18 8/17 Change % Change: 7/24

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 200.18 up0.58 which comp

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FREIGHT CAR ORDERS JUMPED IN 2ND QUARTEROrders for new freight cars during the second quarte

A group of oil companies, renewing its battle to work an oil field off the California coast, is blas

The Federal Maritime Commission is tentatively scheduled to determine the fate of a capacity-cutting

The Philippine government has asked the International Monetary Fund to increase the country's budget

The "front-loading" of Japanese public works spending is on schedule but has yet to show up in const

The depreciation of the U.S. dollar against the deutsche mark has eased western German inflationary