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The lackluster performance of U.S. exports to China is, according to Beijing's official line, a dire

CHINA - $150 million from the World Bank to help modernize enterprises producing electronic componen

Heinz F. Hutter was elected president and William R. Pearce was elected vice chairman of Cargill Inc

The impact of Brazil's sweeping new anti-inflation economic plan on coffee exports will be at worst,

The trading industry Monday blasted a White House proposal to add a 13-cent ''user fee" to futures a

US-JAPAN VENTURE TO PRODUCE MTBEA subsidiary of Japan's Mitsui Co. Ltd. will produce methyl

ITEL RAIL CORP. (San Francisco) - Robert E. Dowdy was elected president of Fox River Valley Railroad

The White House said Monday it was "concerned" that the bad investments have weakened the insurance

Eastern Air Lines was not a big player in the air cargo business but its demise offers its competito

NEDLLOYD SELLS AIR FREIGHT UNITSLONDON - Royal Nedlloyd Group NV, under pressure from shareh

Spot market prices for petroleum products in Asia will likely decline as concern ebbs about the secu

The search for new U.S. oil and natural gas supplies led to a 2.8 percent increase in completed dril

Singapore International Monetary Exchange Feb. 4, 1991Dubai Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

A proposed cut in Medicare payments to doctors and hospitals would shift costs from the government t

The key word for transportation in President Bush's fiscal 1992 budget is infrastructure. On

Overnite Transportation Co. has withdrawn its interstate rates from all but one regional tariff bure

President Bush has told American Jewish leaders that the United States will have difficulty respondi

The U.S. dollar rebounded Monday afternoon in re- action to central banks' intervention in the forei

Mexico is planning to boost business with Cuba, despite the risk of vexing the United States in the

Trade talks to shape international commerce into the 21st century are regaining momentum after becom

Wismut AG gave Moscow the atom bomb, churned tracts of eastern Germany into a radioactive wasteland

Australia's Western Mining Corp. says it has made no real progress since mid- January in talks with

NOBODY'S UNIQUE, the air cargo industry is finding out. Customs brokers and freight forwarde

Indian Oil Co. will continue to buy heavily on the spot oil market this year, as it has done since I

2ND-QUARTER COLLAPSE IN OIL PRICES EXPECTEDNEW YORK - An oil price collapse by spring or soo

The United States said Friday that Jordan had no special exemption from a United Nations embargo aga

Feb. 4, 1991 Copper Total, 14,720. Gold Total, .1,775,213.Silver Total, .266,973,827.

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Frirsday at 213.65 off 0.47 which compares

Three Weeks Ended Jan. 26, 1991, vs. Similar 1990 Period Cars Cars Loaded LoadedChange

MONETARY POLICY SEEN KEY TO EUROPEAN UNIONDAVOS, Switzerland - Bundesbank President Karl Ott

The United States and Venezuela have completed the first round of negotiations on the establishment

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EC MINISTERS MEET ON SECURITY, DEFENSEBRUSSELS, Belgium - European Community foreign ministe

A government plan to force shipping lines to give 100 days' notice of freight rate changes, and nego

Nevada Insurance Commissioner Al Iuppa was placed on administrative leave with pay last week followi

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International Petroleum Exchange Feb. 4, 1991Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)-

President Bush's new budget calls for termination of the final round of the Clean Coal Technology pr

By coming close to its goal for reducing its waterfront work force, the Port of New York and New Jer

The only major new government spending on maritime programs proposed by President Bush Monday is an