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S&P AFFIRMS $1.4 BILLION OF CONRAIL DEBTStandard & Poor's Tuesday affirmed Consolidated Rail

COAL OUTPUT RECORD FORECAST FOR 1991Growing U.S. demand for electricity should push 1991 coa

Demand for Illinois coal could drop as much as 50 percent in the next several years due to the impos

* Gordon Platt - Financing Trade 3A * EC 1992 Regulatory Roundup 5A* Richard Lawrence - Trad

Santa Fe Energy Resources Inc. hedged 77 percent of its 1991 production at a West Texas Intermediate

Dun & Bradstreet Corp. has signed a deal with a Chinese state agency that will give it leverage in e

A tentative agreement on health and welfare issues may have been reached between the Transportation

Commercial banks showed an average 30 percent drop in pretax profits for the year ended March 31, th

Japanese shipping lines are making contingency plans to keep cargo headed for Japan on schedule if

The California Department of Insurance expects to wrap up its probe of Los Angeles-based First Execu

An attempt to tie farmers' income to their eligibility for subsidies faces strong resistance from fa

GHANA PLANS TO FIGHT FOR COCOA FLOOR PRICEACRRA, Ghana - Ghana plans to fight for price-supp

The U.S. Treasury and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are closer to resolving contentious i

French trading house Sucres et Denrees will sign on April 11 the 500 million franc ($87.47 million)

Apr. 9, 1991 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid- Premi

Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines Ltd. and Tokyo-based Nippon Yusen Kaisha will share use of fou

Talks on the colony's new airport will continue "for a few days," but the project could be delayed a

OXY ASSETS ATTRACT JAPANESE REFINERAn unidentified Japanese refining company is considering

The Interstate Commerce Commission Tuesday moved toward permittingrailroads to give financial assist

The chairman of a Senate trade subcommittee called for a federal program to retrain workers displace

Federal prosecutors investigating insurer insolvencies should have available a specific industry cri

The European Commission will submit a draft text of a joint declaration on EC- Japanese relations to

Mining companies are combing ancient inland beaches of Eastern North Carolina and drilling into mine

New York Mercantile Exchange Apr. 8, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

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International Petroleum Exchange Apr. 9, 1991Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)-

Tue., April 9, 1991 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 221.51 up 1.06 which compares wi

The two largest ferry operators on the Dover-Calais route between England and France are exploring a

Based on railroad traffic, the recession isn't over. Rail carloadings in March fell 7.9 perc

Venezuela, with recoverable energy reserves equal to those in Saudi Arabia,plans to develop

Enron Corp. expects to conclude its first 15-year natural gas term sales contract within two to thre

Leaders of Japan's 50,000-member longshoremen's unions announced plans Tuesday to close nine of the

Helen Brohl, maritime director of the Port of Chicago, is resigning in May for personal reasons.

GERMAN TRADE SURPLUS REACHES $1.6 BILLIONFRANKFURT, Germany - Germany's trade surplus widene

Howard Abramson will become managing editor of The Journal of Commerce June 1. Editor Scott

The 17-member Advisory Commission on Conferences in Ocean Shipping, which will examine U.S. maritime

Aluminum ingots- $1,420-$1,430 per ton lots & in warehouse min. 99.

Neptune Orient Lines Ltd. christened the first of three feeder vessels Saturday at the dockyards of

ENERGY INSURANCE MUTUAL (Tampa, Fla.) - Wayne M. Jacobson, joined EIM as the company's first underwr