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Soviet trade sources in London said Friday they believe a five-year sales contract for Ivorian cocoa

Egypt will probably keep the Suez Canal open if a Persian Gulf war erupts, shipping sources said Thu

The nation's airlines lost money throughout 1990, but the soaring cost of jet fuel after the Aug. 2

U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills said Friday that chances for saving the Uruguay Round of world

The International Energy Agency Friday adopted an emergency contingency plan to provide 2.5 million

This table lists spot coal contracts signed between the Tennessee Valley Authority and coalproducers

The Department of Justice wants the Federal Maritime Commission to scrap a proposal requiring the in

As of Jan. 11, 1991 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list price

The government of Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar has mapped out a contingency plan in case war break

The U.S. dollar will soar if there is a war in the Persian Gulf, but the currency will drop with a t

The conventional auto industry wisdom of the 1950s and 1960s was that safety didn't sell because it

Detroit, Tokyo, Turin and Stuttgart long have been considered the world's great automotive centers.<

Florida Employers Insurance Co. and American Employers Group Inc. said Friday their tentative agreem

DUTCH INSURER LICENSED TO SELL IN HUNGARYTHE HAGUE, Netherlands - Nationale-Nederlanden Hung

The federal government is preparing to fund feasibility and design studies that could help put a new

Conoco Refinery Set To Restart This MonthHOUSTON - Conoco Inc. said its 138,000-barrel-a-day

The London International Petroleum Exchange will introduce breaks in oil futures trading should a wa

India this month approved construction of a steel plant with government and private participation, t

Average retail gasoline prices in Massachusetts fell 4 cents a gallon in the last two weeks and 17 c

VOICE-ACTIVATED PHONE DIALS AT YOUR COMMANDINNOVATIVE COMMUNICATIONS, of Lodi, N.J., introdu

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 220.60 up 0.14 which compares

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago1/11 1/10 Change % Change:

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