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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

The U.S. Congress will approve the concept of a U.S.-Mexico free trade agreement this spring, cleari

In the largest environmental penalty ever assessed by Massachusetts, Monsanto Co. will pay nearly $1

LME PLANS TO EXTEND SOME METAL CONTRACTSThe London Metal Exchange Friday announced plans to

All major Soviet shipping companies are forecasting a high level of operating expenses in 1991 becau

It's high noon at Nogales, on the Arizona border with Mexico. As a train grinds to a halt, a solitar

Consolidated Rail Corp. selected Ohio Central Railroad as the new owner of its Ohio Panhandle line.<

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent)is as f

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The American Institute of Merchant Shipping is accepting entries through March 31 in two annual comp

Jan. 11, 1991 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

CHINA'S TRADE SURPLUS SET RECORD LAST YEARChina had its biggest trade surplus ever in 1990,

* Gordon Platt - Currency Forecast 3A * Japan Extends Auto Export Restraints 5A* JofC Indust

United Parcel Service has accepted five nighttime departure slots at Tokyo's Narita Airport.

Toyota Motor Co. executives last week said they will decide by mid-March whether to enter the lucrat