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Monday, Feb. 3, 1992 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said in an interview published Monday that he believes a compromise ca

Motor carriers being squeezed by higher fuel and labor costs and competitionfrom intermodal

When Bill Hidalgo ordered four new vessels for his offshore drilling workboat fleet 18 months ago, h

A spreading wave of violence against prominent business figures has frightened some investors and wo

State air-quality officials said they have agreed not to pursue a complicated program that would hav

A plan by Arthur Dunkel, director-general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, to expedite

The two crucial sectors of oil and power generation will get considerably less official funding than

International Petroleum Exchange Feb. 3, 1992Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)_

LASER GUNS CONSIDERED FOR KUWAITI BORDERSKUWAIT - Foreign companies are swamping Kuw

The U.S. Coast Guard reopened the Intracoastal Waterway Monday afternoon, resuming commerce on a rou

Panama expects to receive $150 million this month from the International Monetary Fund, the first in

Soft white wheat prices in the Pacific Northwest dipped slightly with the easing of the tight logist

Russia is holding talks with three trade houses to buy 1 million tons of white sugar and 2.8 million

LOCKHEED IN VENTURE WITH HUNGARIAN FIRMONTARIO, Calif. - Lockheed Aircraft Service-Internati

The industrywide trend toward eliminating brakemen from freight trains continues with the latest agr

USDA MAY BAN SHIPS BECAUSE OF MOTHSThe U.S. Agriculture Department is likely to ban from U.S

Between Jan. 6 and 12, Carnival Cruise Lines Inc. recorded 65,000 individual bookings. Royal Caribbe

Feb. 3, 1992 RESELLER Rack_Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded

Textile Quotas to Watch as of Jan. 31, 1991* Country Category Descriptio

Recent changes in Russian tax legislation that could adversely affect U.S.-Russian joint petroleum v

Coast Guard Rear Adm. Gene Henn has ordered major reforms in the operations of the Upper Great Lakes

British insurers will not pay a $36 million (UK20 million) life insurance policy on the late Robert

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

Wallenius Lines North America Inc., the U.S. arm of the Swedish automobile carrier, has moved its Pa

As of Feb. 3, 1992 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list prices

Lithuania seeks Western financial backing of up to $200 million for the currency that the newly inde

Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry reportedly may soon advise the nation's auto ma

A group of shipbuilding countries hopes to move closer to an agreement on phasing out shipyard subsi

URUGUAY TRADE ZONE WINS LOAN APPROVALInter-American Investment Corp. has approved a $3.4 mil

Wall Street analyst Daniel Roling gave U.S. coal exporters eyeing the European market a little somet

ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY TO OPEN MARCH 30MONTREAL - The 1992 navigation season of the St.

Property and casualty insurers Monday opposed but did not dismiss an American Bar Association propos

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 211.22 up 0.32 which compares wi

Feb. 3, 1992 Copper Total, 34,864. Gold Total, .1,362,596.Silver Total, .269,

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago2/3 1/31 Change % Change: 1/10

ALUMINUM DEMAND ROSE 3 PERCENT IN JAPAN IN '91Aluminum demand from Japanese end-users rose a

Eastman Chemical Co., a division of Eastman Kodak Co., and Petroquimica de Venezuela SA, the petroch

Hong Kong's seaborne imports from the United States shot up sharply in the third quarter of 1991, wh

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