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JAPAN UNFAZED BY TALK OF USSR METALS DROPJapanese metals experts, while not able to discount

Air Canada has formed a strategic alliance with USAir, the sixth-largest carrier in the United State

HARPER GROUP BUYS STAKE IN FRENCH FIRMHarper Group Inc., a San Francisco-based trans

Singapore will become an increasingly attractive export market during the 1990s for U.S. companies w

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Japan's orange juice demand could more than double during the decade after it drops its import restr

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Cantaloupe markets in the U.S. West Coast and Texas have been virtually shut down since the federal

Most ports around the country are experiencing a lull in car imports and exports transported by roll

New York Mercantile Exchange Aug. 19, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

Aug. 20, 1991 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

BRAZIL LIKELY TO BUY WHEAT FROM HUNGARYBRASILIA, Brazil - Brazil likely will purchase betwee

Production at South Africa's Impala Platinum Ltd.'s Wildebeestfontein North and South platinum mines

Aug. 20, 1991 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

Companies that transport oil on America's inland and coastal waterways fear they'll be caught up in

Despite the slow economy, corporations are forging ahead with systems that combine electronic paymen

Coal miners' strikes spread rapidly across the Soviet Union Tuesday as regional pressure mounted aga

The overthrow of Mikhail S. Gorbachev has thrown a wrench into what was shaping up as a record Canad

It took Jack Blum four years to bust open what is known as "the largestfinancial scandal in

ASSOCIATED AIR FREIGHT EXPANDS IN ATLANTANEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. - Associated Air Freigh

The recent automobile accord between Tokyo and the European Commission will likely result in an even

On a small farm down one of the many dusty roads here, Gilberto Acu grows miniature broccoli, harico

The U.S. dollar declined broadly in a thin and tense market Tuesday but was rising and falling on ne

U.S. electronics companies in Malaysia say part of the labor shortage that their industry faces migh

Recent exposure of major irregularities involving Japanese banking institutions, brokerages and the

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Rising incomes and more sophisticated tastes are fueling a cola war in Thailand, Southeast Asia's fa

International Petroleum Exchange Aug. 20, 1991Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Corn harvesting has just begun in southwestern Indiana, but farmers there and in many other regions

Two of North America's largest railways, Canadian National and Burlington Northern, have teamed up t

If anybody could size up the risks of investing in an insurance company, you might think, it would b

NORTH AMERICA CenCom '91. Aug. 21-22. Guatemala City. Central American telecommunications ex

Esther Hellroth finds shopping a slightly more pleasant experience these days. The Gothenbur

As of Aug. 20, 1991 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list price

PORT OF BOSTON REOPENS AFTER HURRICANE BOBThe Port of Boston was reopened Tuesday after the

IRAQ ASKS ARAB LEAGUE TO HELP END SANCTIONSCAIRO, Egypt - The Iraqi government has asked the

Hapag-Lloyd AG, the West German shipping line, stopped accepting bookings to the SovietUnion in the

AUG. 20, 1991 OPEN INTEREST AND SALES - AUG. 19, 1991All life-of-contract highs and lows on

The undersea explorer who located the "unsinkable" ocean liner Titanic and Nazi Germany's battleship

CZECHOSLOVAKS RUSH FOR GASOLINE AFTER COUPPRAGUE, Czechoslovakia - Panic buying of gasoline