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The Hoechst Group reported first-quarter pretax profits of 829 million deutsche marks ($488 million)

Sedgwick Group Ltd. reported operating income of 169.2 million ($289.3 million) for the first three

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China is moving to join the global practice of electronic trade documentation, with its maritime fla

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

The government plans to expand two of the country's four export processing zones and open up six ind

South Africa's government, reforming apartheid land laws, said Monday it would return at least some

Union members at the Chilean Copper Corp.'s (Codelco) largest mine division of Chuquicamata presente

As of May 20, 1991 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list prices

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

Mon., May 20, 1991 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Canadian tolls on the St. Lawrence Seaway are unlikely to be eliminated in the near future, accordin

Soviet government and trade union negotiators were locked in talks Monday in an 11th-hour attempt to

The story "Deficit With China Jumped 17 percent in March," on Page 1A of The Journal of Commerce, M

The Finnish mark should be linked to the European currency unit, Rolf Kullberg, director of the Finn

Nymex petroleum-product futures contracts are trading in a strange out-of- season pattern, with gaso

A growing number of oil market participants believe crude prices will stay weak for a prolonged peri

Australia's exports of liquefied natural gas to Japan this year will increase by almost 23 percent.<

The presidents of the five Andean Pact countries affirmed their commitment to create a free trade zo

More than 80 percent of the nation's top executives and health care providers surveyed say they oppo

U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills Monday criticized Canada's indication that it will not allow t

From his living room sofa, Ernesto Robles could read the signs describing insecticides produced at t

CALIFORNIA TO FOLLOW NH'S ABORTION COURSECONCORD, N.H. - California legislators have introdu

The White House and an American Jewish group reacted cautiously Monday to the Supreme Soviet legisla

Six months ago David A. Olsen insisted that he was "too young" to be chairman of multinational insur

The following is the list of bunker prices obtained during the course of week ending May 17, 1991. U

1669 (May 20, 1991) Previous day - 1660 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

The owners of the tanker Haven, which sank last month after spilling millions of gallons of oil into

At least $314 million in debt relief funds are being held back pending the Philippines implementatio

The government plans to overhaul its 20-year-old barriers to foreign investment but is still undecid

American Express Bank Ltd., a unit of American Express Co., Monday said it will sell the remainder o

U.S. importers are protesting a proposed fee on cotton imports, saying it would create "an administr

TO THE UNITED STATES/CANADA SOUTH KOREA. May 20-27: Silicon Valley, Calif. May 27-30: Washin

China Ocean Shipping Co. quietly installed a new president at its U.S. unit three weeks ago.

Expanding a U.S.-Canada free trade agreement to include Mexico won't result in an exodus of U.S. bus

Australian beef exports in 1991 will fall 7.9 percent from the 1990 level to 673,000 metric tons, a

U.S. wheat futures' premium to corn futures is expected to increase shortly after summer harvest bec

Patti Garamendi, wife of California insurance commissioner John Garamendi, lost her bid for a seat i

May 20, 1991 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid- Premi

Singapore International Monetary Exchange May 20, 1991Dubai Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)