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Copper prices, hit by sluggish industrial demand, could harden if major minescut off or slow

VENEMAN CONSIDERED FOR USDA POSITIONWASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Agriculture Undersecreta

Wed., April 24, 1991 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Brazil will lose $5 billion worth of exports this year because of ridiculously high port costs, acco

YELLOW FREIGHT INCOME SLID IN FIRST QUARTEROVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Yellow Freight System Inc.

A key House subcommittee chairman Wednesday introduced legislation to prevent foreign ships built wi

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's current forecast for 1990-91 U.S. corn exports is feasible, but

West Coast dockworkers are threatening to expand their boycott of Salvadoran goods if El Salvador's

NO FURTHER STRIKES PLANNED AGAINST ZIMThe union representing ship officers of Zim Israel Nav

Capt. Joseph Hazelwood, the master of the ill-fated Exxon Valdez, could be navigating merchant vesse

German chemical conglomerate Hoechst AG said its 1990 net profits dropped 20 percent because of a we

Carriers that set rates together for moving goods from Asia to the United States have combined two f

The U.S. coal industry, still reeling from Labor Department charges of tampering with dust samples u

Australia's Western Mining Corp. will decide soon whether to undertake a A$300 million ($387 million

In the story headlined, "NY Examines Executive Life for Potential Tax Liability," which appeared on

The surge in America's health care costs is draining business profits and wrecking government budget

The Missouri River appeared to regain some of its old glory last week as rainstorm runoff swelled it

Saudi Arabia's national oil company Samarec will be using tankers chartered recently to store clean

FRANCE'S TRADE DEFICIT EXPANDED IN MARCHA larger deficit on manufactured goods was the main

One Soviet-American joint venture in Latvia has taken a bold step to shield its hard currency earnin

A U.S. shipping company is moving to limit its liability to $7.8 million or less in a February ship

Anthony Pimpinella and one other Brooklyn waterfront union leader are ''made" members of the Gambino

Port of Seattle commissioners today are expected to vote approval of a redesigned central waterfront

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) Apr. 24, 1991Bid AskedCopper-

With costumed Beefeaters, English bobbies and an ice sculpture of Big Ben, United Airlines took over

Oryx Energy Co., the largest U.S. independent oil producer, late last year hedged 70 percent of its

Apr. 24, 1991 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid- Prem

A federal district court ordered Sea-Land Service Inc., Edison, N.J., to produce evidence and inform

Soviet Aviation, one-day seminar sponsored by Euromoney, April 25, Plaza Hotel, New York. Contact: P

Norfolk Southern Corp. earned $100 million, or 65 cents a share, in the first quarter, down 28.7 per

EC TO CONSIDER PLAN TO CREATE CENTRAL BANKBRUSSELS, Belgium - European Community finance min

Singapore International Monetary Exchange Apr. 24, 1991Dubai Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel

Apr. 24, 1991 Copper Total, 31,000. Gold Total, .1,443,407.Silver Total, .265,772,631.

As of Apr. 24, 1991 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list price

Japan Wednesday enacted a national land tax aimed at curbing sky-high land prices. The new t

However sluggish trade as a whole may get, gifts and household bits and pieces seem impervious.<

A lack of aggressive selling interest in new-crop cotton futures continues to be linked to how wet w

Fifty-nine U.S. senators urged President Bush to level sanctions against the European Community unle

The deficit in the federally-backed program for export insurance, coordinated through Hermes Credit

1632 (Apr. 24, 1991) Previous day - 1600 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in