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Bill Odarty is convinced his cookbook can do what the U.S. Commerce and Treasury departments can't d

CHINESE ZONE STARTS METALS EXCHANGEHONG KONG - Shenzhen set up a non-ferrous metals exchange

High prices for naphtha in Japan are attracting cargoes from the U.S. Gulf Coast and might even draw

The Brazilian government's move to transfer wheat-buying responsibilities to private mills is moving

Some two-thirds of this year's graduates of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy have obtained seagoin

LARGE MOTOR CARRIERS are concerned they may lose the big truck battle this year in Congress because

GERMAN MINERS PROTEST PLAN TO CUT SUBSIDIESSAARBRUECKEN, Germany - More than 15,000 coal min

Concerns about safety, maintenance and costs in the Panama Canal spurred the U.S. government to set

Employers have nothing to worry about - so far - from the government's prosecution of two companies

An early distribution of $107 million to 39 state guaranty associations by liquidators of Los Angele

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New regulations for copyright protection of computer programs, hailed by the Chinese as an "umbrella

Some 70,000 miners threatened a nationwide strike beginning today just as Peru's vital mining indust

Minebea group makes ball bearings, the key elements of almost everything that has moving parts and i

SOVIETS TO BUY MOSTLY GRAIN, SOYBEANS:ENVOYWASHINGTON - The new Soviet ambassador to the Uni

Following the recommendations of U.S. and Japanese carriers and its own staff, the Federal Maritime

CZECH CONSUMER PRICES ROSE 1.9 PERCENT IN MAYPRAGUE, Czechoslovakia - The Czech consumer pri

U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills released a list of 17 "negotiating groups," arranged under sev

As of June 14, 1991 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list price

Work in the third season of cleaning beaches dirtied by the Exxon Valdez oil spill is ahead of sched

Two former officials of the pension and welfare plan fund for the Mobile Steamship Association and t

Gillette Co. will continue to pursue its manufacturing venture in the Soviet Union despite the polit

After holding what is expected to be its only hearing on a bill to limit insurers' antitrust exempti

June 14, 1991 Copper Total, 24,708. Gold Total, .1,704,979.Silver Total, .265,058,433.

Johnson & Higgins, the world's largest privately-held insurance broker, has given up on merger talks

New York Mercantile Exchange June 13, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

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1704 (June 14, 1991) Previous day - 1701 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 214.90 off 0.26 which compares

In the fiercely contested international war of wines, a single word often is more than enough cause

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index advanced late last week as plywood's price increased.

The silver market sprang to life in early June following a long period of dormancy, but analysts say

LEBANON AWARDS WORK ON STUDY TO BECHTELBEIRUT, Lebanon - Bechtel Group will carry out a $6.9

Shipments of sugar from Cuba, already hampered by weather and transport problems, will face still lo

Imperial Chemical Industries of the United Kingdom has created its third subsidiary in Eastern Europ

More than half of large U.S. industrial firms would sacrifice economic growth to protect the environ

June 14, 1991 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid- Prem

In its latest step toward truly paperless trading, the U.S. Customs Service has changed the way info

The process leading toward settlement of the long-running railroad labor contract dispute is grindin

The U.S. dollar will remain strong, underpinned by a recovering economy, but a period of consolidati