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The People's Construction Bank of China has signed a deal with a syndicate of Spanish banks to borro

Coffee prices, faced with heavy exports from Brazil and Colombia and poorroaster demand from

New York Mercantile Exchange Dec. 17, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

Dec. 18, 1991 No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%

Wednesday Dec. 18, 1991 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represen

The Miyazawa administration submitted a request to Washington late last week urging a cautious appro

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With the introduction of its new Mercury Villager minivan, the Ford Motor Co. may be preparing for p

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 211.07 up 0.02 which compares wi

After a long discussion of shipping rate contracts, members of the AdvisoryCommission on Con

The Canadian government proposed deregulating trans-border all-cargo services for Canadian airlines,

Federal Express Corp., buffeted by a stagnant global economy, reported Tuesday that net income in it

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Governments of 15 Asian nations, the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Customs Service are laying t

ATTN: Scott Bosley, Editor The Journal of Commerce, New YorkFROM: Leo RyanDATE: Apri

Wide-scale abuses of Russia's oil export licensing system between July and November have forced the

China Ocean Shipping Co., which has quadrupled the cargo space aboard itstrans-Pacific ships

Dec. 17, 1991 No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago12/17 12/16 Change % Change: 11/2

AVERAGE '92 GOLD PRICE PUT AT $370 AN OUNCESYDNEY, Australia - The Australian Bureau of Agri

The U.S. Department of Agriculture may have to cut back on food aid to developing nations in fiscal

EC EXTENDS WOOD PLAN INVOLVING US, CANADABRUSSELS, Belgium - The EC has extended until Dec.

NORTH AMERICA Winter Consumer Electronics Show. Jan. 9-12. Las Vegas. Contact William C. Cra

At Wilkins Regulator, which makes water separation valves, employees used to ''pull all day on valve

THE FOREIGN BANK SUPERVISION Enhancement Act, included in the new U.S. banking bill, gives the Feder

Red-faced officials from the Group of 7 industrialized nations are tight- lipped about the lack of e

The Chinese government issued a blistering assault on the United States Tuesday in what appears to b

Germany will import 20 percent more hard coal by the end of this year than it did in 1990 as the pri

PRICE OF OPEC BASKET FALLS TO $17.29 A BARRELVIENNA, Austria - The price of the Organization

A $15 million container hub that will allow Sea-Land Service Inc. to move Alaskan seafood direct to

Two of this country's largest mutual insurance companies said Tuesday they will merge in an attempt

S&P RAISES RATING FOR PRIMERICA HOLDINGSStandard & Poor's raised the ratings of Primerica Ho

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Shanghai Airlines, first of China's nominally independent carriers, will pay US$347.5 million for fi

A tiny bit of Portugal-in-China best known for its casinos is now gambling on a new industry - conta

Florida citrus growers are exporting record numbers of boxed grapefruit to Japan this year in the wa

A Japanese group and three other international consortiums have bid for the contract to construct a

Two new spans of a rail bridge on the U.S.-Canada border at Sault Ste. Marie, which now can handle l

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New York Mercantile Exchange Dec. 16, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents