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CIA DIRECTOR OPPOSES ECONOMIC ESPIONAGECIA Director Robert Gates said he is opposed to the a

The Interstate Commerce Commission issued its first estimate of the total potential truck undercharg

Consolidated Rail Corp. is looking at a $420 million to $450 million after-tax hit to its earnings i

Grains and soybean futures on the Chicago Board of Trade traded higher late Thursday in response to

Deliveries of Brazil's already shrunken 1991-92 (October-April) main cocoa crop have been delayed by

Japan's beef imports could grow as much as 17 percent to a record 400,000 metric tons in 1992 if con

New coal ports are under construction around the coast of Britain in anticipation of a big increase

Fewer and larger suppliers to Europe's public sector energy utilities will survive after the Europea

A congressman proposed the creation of a U.S. emergency oil conservation corps to help stop the decl

Bulgaria Thursday became the first country in Eastern Europe to sentence former Communist officials

Thursday Dec. 12, 1991 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

Ocean carriers are discharging and loading Uruguay cargoes in Buenos Aires and U.S. importers are ex

The Port of San Francisco has joined other California ports in raising its wharfage rates. E

The Port of Gothenburg, Sweden, said it will cut its work force by 20 percent to increase profits.

Shipowners are refusing to unload U.S. grain intended to help the Soviet Union through a difficult w

Votainer Consolidation Services USA Inc., an ocean freight consolidator, will expand its service net

The International Monetary Fund is seeking a nearly 13 percent increase in its staff over the next t

Dec. 12, 1991 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

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

Aluminum ingots_ $1,137 per ton lots & in warehouse min. 99.7%Antimo

THE SUDDEN DEPARTURE THIS WEEK of Fred Pitre from the helm of Canada Steamship Lines Inc. had reverb

A detergent-like chemical known as a surfactant, already a proven treatment for breathing problems i

Dec. 12, 1991 RESELLER Rack_Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded

GAS OIL FREIGHT RATES RISE ON RHINE RIVERFreight rates for Rhine river gas oil barge voyages

Total Ocean Marine Services Inc., a new ship line that recently won an extended battle to serve the

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

If you put together the daily diet of constitutional warmongering in Canadian newspapers with the eq

Thailand has not kept promises to stop piracy of foreign videos and records, but the Bush administra

1552 (Dec. 11, 1991) Previous day - 1553 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

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

Military coups in developing countries often scare off international investors, but in Thailand, whe

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

Senior finance ministry officials from the powerful Group of 7 industrial nations are likely to meet

The Tricontinental Service group's plan to move out of Sea-Land Service Inc.' s New Jersey terminal

DIRECT-DIAL SERVICE TO LINK ISRAELIS, ARABSIsraelis will be able to make direct-dial telepho

International Petroleum Exchange Dec. 11, 1991Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Hungary's oil reserves are being drained as a result of the closure of the Adriatic pipeline, which

The European Community accords on economic and monetary union reached this week increase pressure on

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After seven years of rapid economic expansion, matched only by Japan among the leading industrial na