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International Petroleum Exchange Jan. 25, 1991*Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Wall Street interest in the shipping industry is fading as fewer and fewer analysts and investment h

Czechoslovakia's trade deficit continued to widen in December, reaching 6.2 billion korunas ($221 m

The Japanese economy will continue to expand throughout 1991 despite the gulf war, unless the fighti

The term ginseng is often equated with the exotic, medicinal root grown primarily in China and South

Italy is making slow progress in internationalizing its economy and has yet to catch up with the lev

When anxious Egyptian hoarders stripped store shelves of bread during the first days of the Persian

The proposal to draw federal funds to a hoped-for cargo and maintenance airport in northwest Arkansa

Work will proceed to bring Hong Kong's new airport into operation "as early as possible," a senior o

Seething at a new federal law that caps crop prices at 1990 levels for five years, the nation's farm

1466 (Jan. 25, 1991) Previous day - 1465 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Puerto Rico signed a contract to buy 500,000 barrels of high-sulfur residual fuel oil a month from t

LAWMAKER SEEKS PROBE OF GASOLINE PRICINGSuspecting price-gouging at the gasoline pump, Rep.

LAST WEEK, OCEAN FREIGHT FUTURES PRICES traded within a range that reflected the belief that the mar

Gearbulk Container Services is dropping out of the Pacific trades because full-service intermodal ca

U.S. Department of Agriculture Clayton Yeutter Friday said the Soviets currently remain eligible for

FIVE GULF TANKERS TRANSITED SUEZ FRIDAYCAIRO, Egypt - The Suez Canal Authority said five oil

Orix Commodities Singapore Pte, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Japanese firm Orix Commodities Corp

China is planning more than a dozen large-scale petrochemical projects for the next five years, the

The leader of Japan's most powerful business group Friday called on the Japanese government to open

New York Mercantile Exchange Jan. 24, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

Friday Jan. 25, 1991 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

The rise in the mid-January Tokyo consumer prices index, following two months of declines, reinforce

As the release date of the Treasury Department's study on banking reform draws near, insurers are in

Sales of board games depicting Persian Gulf mayhem are a hit with customers as manufacturers move qu

FRANCE REPORTS EASING IN INDUSTRIAL OUTPUTFrench industrial production eased in the fourth q

REGIONAL BLOCS Environmental Markets in Southeast Asia. Feb. 5: Washington. Feb. 7: New York

In preparing its case for a large, modern airport, the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Authority

Plans to privatize many of Britain's ports have captured the imagination of lawyers, accountants, me

Japanese output of autos, buses and trucks climbed 3.5 percent in year-to- year terms for a record t

INDIA BEGINS TALKS WITH BP FOR CRUDE OILNEW DELHI, India - The Indian government is negotiat

The Venezuelan state oil company is near agreement with three international companies on a $3.5 bill

Jan. 25, 1991 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index recouped earlier losses on Friday but ended the week

Robert D. Krebs, chairman, president and chief executive of Santa Fe Pacific Corp., doesn't think ra

Jan. 25, 1991 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid- Prem

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's deadline last Friday for handing in large bills, which sparked

Putting out fires in oil storage tanks and oil wells like those that erupted in Kuwait on Tuesday ar

TUCSON ELECTRIC ASKS BANKS FOR MORATORIUMLOS ANGELES - Tucson Electric Power Co. asked its b

The United States can produce an additional 6 billion barrels of light crude oil if advanced recover