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ECONOMY CONTRACTS AT REVISED 2 PERCENT RATEWASHINGTON - The economy's output of goods and se

The separatist movement in Quebec is no threat to North American free trade, native Quebecers and th

Corporate America is on trial, in a sense, in Room 706 of the Cook CountyCriminal Courts Bui

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is drawing up a strategy for its March 11 meeting

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 212.56 up 1.91 which compares w

FUEL OIL-MIDWEST Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing th

A U.S. Export-Import Bank loan to a Thai contractor will give U.S. manufacturers a shot at equipping

A fourth grade teacher in Fond du Lac, Wis., is gaining national recognition for her efforts to prom

American military personnel who die while in the service - during war or peace - are covered by a $5

USF&G POST NET LOSS FOR FOURTH QUARTERBALTIMORE, Md. - Fourth quarter at USF&G Corp. showed

Czechoslovakia Tuesday reached a milestone in its march toward a free market economy by enacting a n

The State Department will monitor foreign longshore work activities to provide the Attorney General

FAR EAST CONFERENCE CUTS MIDEAST SURCHARGELONDON - The Far Eastern Freight Conference announ

Feb. 27, 1991 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

CSX Corp. stock was up $2.50 to $37.88 Wednesday afternoon following a story in The Journal of Comme

The U.S. dollar was mixed again Wednesday as traders remained undecided whether to buy or sell.<

The Soviet Union is unlikely to benefit from the House Agriculture Committee's approval of $475 mill

The time may be approaching for a long-awaited downward price correction in U.S. cotton prices from

Spain's Iberia Airlines is seeking to acquire a 40 percent interest in the Dominican Republic's mone

The date was May 1, 1948. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was retiring from the Army, vowing never to run

As of Feb. 27, 1991 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list price

U.S. agricultural subsidies for some commodity grains have dropped significantly since the U.S.-Can

YELLOW FREIGHT CUTS FUEL SURCHARGEOVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Yellow Freight System Inc. said it p

Gloomy predictions about a flood of distressed ship sales from troubled Norwegian investment compani

An associate membership at the Chicago Board of Trade sold Tuesday for $224,000, up $14,000 from the

The House Agriculture Committee rejected a last minute request from Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brad

HOME LIFE INSURANCE CO. (New York) - William B. Wallace, CLU, ChFC, president and chief executive of

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

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

French industrial production, excluding construction and public works, fell 1.43 percent in December

Even as the Massachusetts Port Authority reported its second straight 1 million-ton year of containe

Charging financial mismanagement, the federal government is seeking to oust seven shipping company o

New York Mercantile Exchange Feb. 26, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

CONSUMER PRICES RISE 0.4 PERCENT IN FRANCEPARIS - French consumer prices rose 0.4 percent in

The Bush administration plans to restrict exports of commonly used chemicals and manufacturing equip

South Korean petrochemical companies are reported to be seeking huge quantities of naphtha for deliv

HIMONT PLANS TO BUILD POLYPROPYLENE UNITHimont Inc., the world's largest polypropylene manuf

NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP. (Norfolk, Va.) - Powell F. Sigmon was named assistant vice president, mechani

RI COAL PLANT FACES ONLY ONE MORE HURDLEBOSTON - Newbay Corp. has one more major regulatory

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