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Fed by a booming shipping and trade market in Southeast Asia, Singapore has gained critical mass ove

Few futures industry issues over the past few years have irritated officials of the industry more th

An unlikely combination of wet salted cod, tomatoes, 30-ton trucks and people is stalling the attemp

The Port of San Francisco is vowing to fight efforts from anti-apartheid activists to end the port's

The International Trade Commission canceled a public hearing scheduled for March 12 in connection wi

MOSBACHER LEAVES FOR KUWAIT VISITCommerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher is scheduled to leave h

INDIA FATS/OILS IMPORTS EXPECTED TO DECLINELarge stocks of oils and fats at the start of the

The fate of the U.S. export bonus program, nearly out of money and entangled in confusing and confli

Venezuela's state petrochemical company, Pequiven SA, inaugurated the world's second largest plant m

TOKIO MARINE TO CREATE SUBSIDIARY IN AUSTRIATokio Marine and Fire Insurance Co., the largest

SKANDIA AMERICA GROUP (New York) - James F. Dowd was appointed president and chief executive officer

Mar. 12, 1991 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

New York Mercantile Exchange Mar. 11, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

Mar. 12, 1991 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

As of Mar. 12, 1991 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list price

New research concludes that free trade with Mexico will raise real wages for unskilled workers in th

COCA-COLA, NESTLE FORM NEW COMPANYATLANTA - Coca-Cola Co. and Nestle SA announced the signin

Standard & Poor's Tuesday downgraded McDonnell Douglas Corp. senior debt to ''BBB" from "BBB-plus,"

The United States and Germany have agreed to twice-yearly talks on telecommunications issues, a lead

President Bush and new U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Edward Madigan Tuesday said they wou

USSR EXPECTED TO USE EC AID TO BUY MEATLONDON - The Soviet Union will use a new EC credit an

The Brazilian government announced that another $12 million is being released this week to pay credi

The Port of Oakland's board of commissioners is coming under fire from local business and labor grou

Nicholas Brady, U.S. Treasury secretary, said Tuesday that the round of monetary easing so far will

Tokio Marine and Fire Ltd., the large Japanese multi-lines insurer, is establishing its own underwri

KUWAITI PORT REOPENS TO MERCHANT SHIPPINGA Kuwaiti seaport was opened to merchant shipping o

Allied bombing destroyed more than two-thirds of Iraq's oil export capacity during the Persian Gulf

ARCO TRANSPORTATION FORMS ALASKA UNITAtlantic Richfield Co. formed Arco Transportation Alask

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries sealed a pact Tuesday tocut oil output by

Mar. 12, 1991 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

NORTH AMERICA Boston International Seafood Show. March 12-14. Boston. New Jersey Pavilion. C

RYDER SYSTEM INC. (Miami) - Edwin A. Huston, senior executive vice president, finance and chief fina

Heavy truck sales sank to a five-year low last month in one of the clearest signs yet of the nation'

The U.S. court of appeals here said the secretary of transportation acted properly in approving the

Canadian exporters are counting on capturing as much as US$10 billion in business from the reconstru

The European Commission this week admitted that its proposed reform of the Common Agricultural Polic

An explosion early Tuesday morning at Union Carbide Corp.'s Seadrift, Texas, petrochemical complex k

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Maritime fraud investigators are hailing the successful conviction this week of the central figure i

Keppel Corp. recorded a significant jump in pretax profit in the year through last Dec. 31, despite