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German Economics Minister Jurgen Moellemann on Wednesday urged the European Community to scrap its s

The chairman of the House subcommittee responsible for drafting highway reauthorization legislation

The upper house of Japan's Parliament Wednesday passed laws aimed at making it easier for retailers

The Port of New Orleans is aiming to expand its role in intermodal operations, shift more control to

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is unlikely to be invited to join the leaders of the world's larg

Pan American World Airways plans to reclaim its Miami-London route authority, ending a short trial p

An oil spill from a tanker is killing birds on "a mass scale" in a sensitive region at the southern

Saudi Arabia's Eastern Petrochemical Co. has signed a construction contract for a new ethylene glyco

The European Commission's first tentative estimate for the 1991-92 (October- September) rapeseed har

The Reinsurance Association of America confirmed Wednesday that Franklin W. Nutter will become the a

New York Mercantile Exchange May 7, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents p

Singapore International Monetary Exchange May 8, 1991Dubai Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)<

Only a tiny fraction of the world's large tankers are equipped with double bottoms, figures released

Mexico needs a free trade agreement with the United States if it is to generate the capital it needs

Rescuers found 191 survivors of a riverboat accident in the swirling waters of an Amazon tributary b

May 8, 1991 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

With ethylene production on the rise in foreign countries, U.S. chemical companies should concentrat

The Great Lakes Commission urged Congress to authorize funds to modernize the Mackinaw, the premier

The central banks of countries in the European Monetary System are unlikely to follow last week's ha

Sea-Land Service Inc., Edison, N.J., is fighting a federal court order that it produce information i

VIETNAM TO PAY DEBTS TO SOVIETS IN GOODSVietnam will have to pay off its debts to the Soviet

For all its apparent artificiality, the Manaus free trade zone industrial park on the Amazon River r

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. President Richard M. Furlaud retired, but will remain member of the board,

FOSTER WHEELER PLANS TO EXPAND FACILITYCLINTON, N.J. - Foster Wheeler Ltd. has been appointe

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

May 8, 1991 Copper Total, 27,340. Gold Total, .1,428,181.Silver Total, .261,669,906.

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 215.82 off 0.63 which compares

May 8, 1991 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid- Premiu

Aluminum ingots- $1,310-$1,320 per ton lots & in warehouse min. 99.

The Soviet ruble will become a convertible currency "this year," Eduard Shevardnadze, former Soviet

Iran is moving toward opening up to Western nations but still rules out renewed ties with the United

Two Polish shipping companies gained the right to call at a dozen previously restricted U.S. ports,

JAMAICA GETS LOAN FOR OIL IMPORT COSTSKINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaica has received a 19.9 millio

A technology crucial to the rail industry effort to match truckers at providing shippers Just-in-Tim

U.S. crude oil inventories were down by 3.1 million barrels during the week ended May 3, compared wi

Heavy rain and high wind destroyed corn plants in scattered areas of central Argentina, the National

International Petroleum Exchange May 8, 1991Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)--

May 8, 1991 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond,

TOSHIBA DEVELOPS FLEXIBLE ROBOTTOKYO - Japanese electronics maker Toshiba developed a robot

British automaker Rover Group PLC said it is suspending plans to build a factory to assemble four-wh