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Shipping Corp. of India plans to buy 129 ships totaling 4.86 million deadweight tons by 1995 at a to

CSX INTERMODAL (Hunt Valley, Md.) - Mark W. Young was promoted to Southeast regional sales director.

The European Community was rebuffed last week in an effort to slow down an investigation of alleged

An oil field of "world significance" was discovered in the central and southern highlands of Papua N

Japanese dock labor unions were expected to continue picketing at nine of the country's largest cont

The U.S. dollar remained lower Monday though it rebounded off its lows on a government official's ro

INDONESIAN WORKERS RIOT OVER CONDITIONSJAKARTA, Indonesia - About 2,800 women workers at a S

Sunshine Mining Co. said its Sunshine Precious Metals unit has defaulted on its silver index bonds a

While it would be premature to revise the "Misery Index," the sum of the unemployment rate and the r

BFGoodrich Co., of Akron, Ohio, and Schoeneck Containers Inc., of New Berlin, Wis., devised and impl

A senior U.S. Treasury official said Monday that high global interest rates are restraining growth i

GRACE PLANS TO CUT BOARD OF DIRECTORSNEW YORK - W. R. Grace & Co. announced that, as part of

Four major insurance companies are included among nearly 500 rated as having ''below average" financ

Singapore International Monetary Exchange Apr. 15, 1991Dubai Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel

Monday Apr. 15, 1991 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

Mon., April 15, 1991 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) Apr. 15, 1991Bid AskedCopper-

IS PAPERLESS TRADING'S LEADING ASSOCIATION about to disassociate? Officials say no; insiders paint a

A short railroad strike will have little effect on the U.S. economy, economists and consultants surv

Seamen agreed Monday to a partial end to a strike that has crippled New Zealand's ports for almost a

About 1 million Soviet Jews, with visas already granted, have canceled or postponed emigrating to Is

Federal Express Corp. is weighing the benefits of establishing two additional regional air cargo hub

In an apparent boost for Russian leader Boris N. Yeltsin, striking Soviet miners in a remote arctic

Iraq's largest oil refinery resumed production Monday after a three-month stoppage caused by allied

The good times are back for the American Bureau of Shipping. After five or six years of losi

Telefonica-USA Inc., a subsidiary of Telefonica de Espana SA, will begin marketing international ser

Jamaica's agriculture sector has received a fillip through a major investment by Comet Rice Inc., of

CFTC, BRAZIL TO SHARE COFFEE INFORMATIONWASHINGTON - The Commodity Futures Trading Commissio

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to kill a lawsuit by people claiming they suffered illnesse

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Health insurers would be required to disregard actuarial experience and offer basic coverage to cert

The Environmental Protection Agency has not done enough to encourage settlement agreements among org

New York Mercantile Exchange Apr. 12, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

International Petroleum Exchange Apr. 15, 1991Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

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

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

Chinese coal industry figures are proposing substantial imports of coal- mining equipment to spur ou

April 15, 1991 This table shows the vessels scheduled to call at U.S. coal terminals and the

COLOMBIA, VENEZUELA AGREE ON 5 PROJECTSBUCARAMANGA, Colombia - Colombia and Venezuela have e

Taiwan Monday opened its first semi-official trade office in Hong Kong, paving the way for further t