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Aluminum ingots- $1,640-$1,700 per ton lots & in warehouse min. 99.

For the week ended Jan. 5, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 83

Singapore International Monetary Exchange Jan. 11, 1991Dubai Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel

Iraq President Saddam Hussein can make the Persian Gulf an environmental and economic hostage by cau

Nissan Motor Corp. U.S.A. will keep the content of U.S. parts in its Tennessee-made Sentra subcompac

The Brazilian Congress late last week voted an emergency loan of 12 billion cruzeiros (about $65 mil

Railroad carload freight in December continued the slump that began in October, declining 1.3 percen

SAUDIS TO PAY 40 PERCENT-50 PERCENT OF DESERT SHIELD COSTSABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -

WHOLESALE PRICES FELL 0.6 PERCENT IN DECEMBERWASHINGTON - A steep drop in food and energy co

Brazilian drivers' demand for cheaper tires spurred a group of investors to manufacture retreading r

SOVIET FARMERS GIVEN DISTRIBUTION PRIORITIESPresident Mikhail Gorbachev last week ordered fa

VIDEOCASSETTE USERS CAN CODE INFORMATIONMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Macrovision Corp. introduced

The cruise industry, one of South Florida's biggest success stories in the 1980s, may feel the pinch

JACOBS AWARDED CIBA-GEIGY CONTRACTJacobs Engineering Group Inc. of Pasadena, Calif., said it

The Air Force is renewing its push to enable small businesses to do business with it electronically.

DO ENOUGH STUDIES, and perhaps we can avoid ever taking meaningful action. The prestigious T

Despite the efforts of corporate leaders to slow down the rising cost of medical care, average annua

The ACE consortium of three Asian ship lines this month added the German port of Bremerhaven to its

Jan. 11, 1991 Copper Total, 13,920. Gold Total, .1,595,157.Silver Total, .265,018,036.

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) Jan. 11, 1991Bid AskedCopper-

Jan. 11, 1991 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

BAHAMAS - $1.9 million from the Inter-American Development Bank in the form of a grant to improve t

International Factors Marine (Singapore) is joining forces with a Thai bank in a joint venture to ex

WOODHOUSE LAYS OFF 15 WORKERS IN LONDONCommodities trade house Woodhouse, Drake and Carey Fr

The Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana has successfully bred a new variety of coffee called the "arab

The National Agricultural Chemicals Association, or NACA, has asked the Environmental Protection Age

The 1990s will be a "watershed decade" for insurance and insurance regulation, with the solvency iss

Seaman Apprentice Robert Garza was the first to spot the mine. ''It was about 50 yards out.

OMAN CAN MAINTAIN OUTPUT RATE 20 YEARSLONDON - Oman can produce oil at current rates of 700,

AMERICAN AIRLINES AMERICAN AIRLINES said December freight ton-miles shot up 14.2 percent to

SINGAPORE AIRLINES ENDS FLIGHT TO MIDEASTSINGAPORE - Singapore Airlines has stopped all its

Venezuela's new hydrocarbon-based fuel, Orimulsion, threatens to make serious inroads into the North

Most Quebec business executives prefer Canada to emerge intact from the current political crisis, sa

Exxon Co. U.S.A. is expected to withdraw from its Wilmington, N.C., terminal late in the first quart

Fri., Jan 11, 1991 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

Friday Jan. 11, 1991 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

New York Mercantile Exchange Jan. 9, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

U.S. companies are eyeing opportunities for eventual reconstruction work in the Persian Gulf region

ALLIED-SIGNAL INC. (Morris Township, N.J.) - Kazuo Yoshikawa was named vice president-Japan for Alli