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VENEZUELA SEEKS REFINERY PARTNERSHOUSTON - Petroleos de Venezuela SA wants to establish refi

Operators of container repair and storage depots, caught in a squeeze for port land and an increase

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SLIGHT RISE REPORTED IN HELP-WANTED ADSNEW YORK - Classified advertising of U.S. job opening

W.R. Grace & Co. Wednesday said its Grace Specialty Chemicals Co. unit acquired A.A. Consultancy and

International Petroleum Exchange Feb. 6, 1991Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)-

Feb. 6, 1991 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Members of the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday made it clear they will insist on playing an impor

Two months into his job as chairman of Federal Maritime Commission, Christopher L. Koch uses simple

Brazilian seafarers are threatening to strike in mid-February, after the government's dramatic anti-

Actual Vessel Sale Evaluations Sale Time Date Vessel

James L. Knight - the younger of two ambitious but very different brothers who built a newspaper emp

The Soviet Union is in a "deep economic depression" with the officialgovernme nt assessment showing

JOBLESS RATE RISES IN WESTERN GERMANYFRANKFURT, Germany - The unemployment rate in the forme

A San Francisco Department of Insurance hearing this week put state Insurance Commissioner John Gara

Lloyd's of London wants a larger share of the French insurance market and hopes its reputation will

The Senate Agriculture Committee has been slightly reshuffled following a membership meeting last we

Waning hopes for more sales of U.S. corn to the Soviet Union have solidified perceptions that the U.

Proposals to reform the U.S. banking industry are a welcome move in the same direction as the Europe

Thousands of Barrels Week Week WeekEnded Ended Ended2-1 1-25

Aluminum ingots- $1,465-$1,475 per ton lots & in warehouse min. 99.

Feb. 6, 1991 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

LARGE TEXAS INSURER DECLARED INSOLVENTAUSTIN, Texas - The Texas Employers Insurance Associat

The Commerce Department has looked back and revised its conclusions about the 1980s economy. It foun

THE FOREIGN CREDIT INSURANCE ASSOCIATION for the first time has begun accepting applications for exp

GENERAL RE NET INCOME ROSE IN FOURTH QUARTERSTAMFORD, Conn. - General Re Corp. reported a sl

FORD OF AUSTRALIA UNITS TO CLOSE TEMPORARILYSYDNEY, Australia - Australia's leading carmaker

The Maritime Administration is asking for bids on 12 old ships fit only for the scrap heap.

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

The formation of an Asian or even combined Asian-North America bloc topressure for improved

The Persian Gulf war could have a long-lasting or even irreversible impact on the air transportation

The U.S. Agriculture Department's rejection last week of Soviet bids for wheat under the export bonu

The Canadian wheat and barley sale to the Soviet Union, announced Monday by the Canadian Wheat Board

The Great Drought of 1988 has claimed more victims, at least statistically: on Monday, the governmen

Japan sent an airplane loaded with oil booms to Saudi Arabia Tuesday to help to protect its coast fr

U.S. coal companies hoping to break into the British market in a big way are heading for a fall, a t

COASTAL GAS MARKETING COMPANY Coastal Gas Marketing Company (formerly ANR Gathering Company)

Evergreen Marine Corp., the world's largest containership line, will shift its U.S. Pacific Northwes

The Russian Republic would like to preserve the Soviet Union, but it should be a union "more or less

As the European Community marches down the road to monetaryunion and, perhaps, a single currency, on