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MEXICO - $4.5 million from the Inter-American Investment Corp. to help finance the construction of a

Guy B. Barham Co. is the only customhouse broker subsidiary of Schenkers InternationalForwarders Inc

The record plunge of more than $10 a barrel in oil prices after the U.S.-led air blitz on Iraq caugh

Procter & Gamble Co., the world's largest maker of soaps, detergents and other household and persona

Australia's second largest general insurance company is pleased by the interest being shown in it by

New York Mercantile Exchange Jan. 25, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

Jan. 28, 1991 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid- Prem

HERE'S WHY WE NEED A GATT - or something like it - that works. On Jan. 4, Rep. John D. Dinge

Thirteen ocean carriers moving cargo from the Far East to North America will increase rates and begi

Egypt unveiled sweeping measures to liberalize its economy Monday. The forceful departure from 30 ye

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A Chicago company that has a joint venture to manufacture toys in the Soviet Union plans to expand p

Japanese energy companies will use foreign ships and foreign crews to transport liquefied petroleum

A 2-month-old link between here and Chicago, which Southern Pacific Transportation Co. had sought fo

The U.S. Customs Service is receiving nearly unanimous opposition to a plan to revise a long-held in

The Illinois Commerce Commission urged the Federal Energy RegulatoryCommission to prevent na

HANDY & HARMAN (New York) - Robert E. Cornelia was elected to the board of directors at its meeting

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

Home heating oil and gasoline retail prices in Massachusetts last week continued a downward spiral t

Container volume through the Port of Hong Kong last year was the equivalent of 5.1 million 20-foot e

LARGEST DUTCH INSURER ANNOUNCES MERGERAMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Holland's largest insurance c

The European Community is heading for an explosive internal row over agriculture that could slow pro

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 214.89 up 0.35 which compares wi

Jan. 28, 1991 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago1/28 1/25 Change % Change:

The United States is expected to press its wealthy allies next month to give more money to the front

Liberia has only $5,000 in New York bank accounts that once contained millions, and the national tre

CANADIAN SELLING PIECES OF SCUD MISSILESTORONTO - Canadian businessman Al Sikora is offering

''DICTATORIAL" - THAT'S THE WORD maritime industry executives and tariff automation specialists are

Jan. 28, 1991 This table shows the vessels scheduled to call at U.S. coal terminals and the

The chairman of the Suez Canal Authority has contacted major shipping associations and insurance com

SAUDIS SAY OIL SLICK WON'T STOP EXPORTSThe oil slick drifting down the Persian Gulf will not

SAUDI BARLEY PURCHASES SEEN REMAINING STEADYThe U.S. agricultural attache in Riyadh said Sau

A request to waive a domestic shipping law so a foreign tanker can carry oil products between Hawaii

SMITHKLINE BEECHAM (Philadelphia) - Birgit Breuel, chief executive officer of Vorstand Treuhandsanst

The Treasury has backed away from an earlier suggestion that private insurers underwrite a major por

Mon., Jan. 28, 1991 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Jan. 28, 1991 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

Monday Jan. 28, 1991 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

Jan. 28, 1991 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent