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Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry has agreed to help support $1 billion of U.S. e

Each of the three B+H shipping companies posted a profit in the first three months of 1991, accordin

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

A decline in cotton production in India because of drought and insect damage has sparked panic buyin

BRAZIL MAY NOT ALTER STANCE ON COFFEE PACTLONDON - Brazil probably will not clarify its posi

Two former brokers from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange yen futures pit pleaded guilty to felony cha

The Novopolotsk, the first vessel in the new Soviet liner service to the Great Lakes, will enter the

AIG American International Group reported an increase in net income for the first quarter en

May 2, 1991 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond,

A tight aircraft financing market, which is forcing airlines to pay more interest and widen their se

U.S. companies are expected to capture many of the $100 billion worth of infrastructure projects tha

Invite a group of manufacturers, bankers, attorneys and government officials to a trade conference

The U.S. dollar was broadly higher Thursday, but traders said the market was quiet and confined to a

A coalition of environmental, labor and human rights groups condemned what they called President Bus

THE FIGHT GOES ON for surviving elevator operators in northeast Montana. The shippers, nearl

The European Commission's trust busters and competition watchdogs are being overwhelmed by a mountin

The Brazilian government is taking another major step toward a rapprochement with Washington by prop

SURVEY SHOWS LAOS HAS GOLD RESERVESVIENTIANE, Laos - Land-locked Laos, one of the world's po

Guatemalan government officials, trying to reverse a five-year lull in oil exploration, are trying t

The Lloyd's of London insurance market, currently facing unprecedented legal action, plans independe

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

As of May 2, 1991 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list prices

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

May 2, 1991 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Recently, Supreme Court Justice Scalia wrote an opinion in which he stated pregnant women might leg

Paperless trading capability and the business practices it fuels are already competitive necessities

Colombian President Cesar Gaviria said Tuesday the cocaine plantations and processing factories inst

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. has created a new distribution unit. The new unit, R.R. Donnelley

HONG KONG ECONOMISTS EXPECT PRIME RATE CUTHong Kong economists said they expect the local be

The nation's biggest banks cut their prime lending rates Wednesday by half a percentage point to 8.5

Strong airlines will get stronger and the weak will get weaker as the rapidly changing industry flie

The cyclone that swept through and devastated much of the southern coast of Bangladesh this week co

The European Community Commission said it will closely scrutinize any attempt by Europe's loss-makin

Algeria acknowledged that China was helping it build a nuclear reactor, but said it was for peaceful

Robert Gentile, the Bush administration's top-ranking official on coal industry matters, submitted h

The board of the New York Mercantile Exchange voted 12 to 6 in favor of cooperating with the five Ne

A congressional-industry advisory commission on ocean carrier conferences is still struggling to def

The highlights of the Bush administration's action plan for negotiating a North American free-trade

Union Carbide Corp. said Wednesday it will cut at least 50 percent of its emissions and off-site tra

Wed., May 1, 1991 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K