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U.S. computer chip makers picked up business at the expense of their Japanese competitors last year

AMERICAN GENERAL BUYS SHARES OF TRAVELERSNEW YORK - Officials at American General Corp. conf

Automobile insurers will closely watch a federal court case that challenges as unconstitutional a Ma

Jan. 4, 1991 JAPANFinancial Futures*Japanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

International Petroleum Exchange Jan. 4, 1991*Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

McCarran International Airport will open a new $60 million runway on Jan. 12. The new 8,900-

Mines found drifting near Saudi Arabia's offshore oil fields may pose a new threat to Persian Gulf s

Vietnam Airlines has skirted a U.S. embargo and leased a Boeing Co. jet, which Hanoi hopes will bols

Shipowners sending their vessels to the Middle East are expecting war-risk insurance prices to rise

Friday Jan. 4, 1991 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

Japan registered its first trade deficit with the Soviet Union in 16 years in 1990 as imports surged

Finance Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto will visit China Jan. 8-11 in the first trip there by a Japanese

China's principal ports handled the equivalent of 1.5 million 20-foot containers, or TEUs, last year

Last week's cancellation of Pakistan's PL-480 vegetable oil allocation for fiscal 1991 underscores a

FERTILIZER PLANT PLANNED FOR VIETNAMNissho Iwai Corp. and Ho Chi Minh City's Food Corp. will

As of Jan. 4, 1991 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list prices

Jan. 4, 1991 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Miners in the big Ukrainian coalfields on Friday threatened to halt shipments later this week unless

Warm winter temperatures, high inventories and declining demand have turned futures market analysts

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The Port of Longview and the city of Longview said they plan a joint feasibility study on the develo

Responding to the Kuwait crisis, the Federal Aviation Administration reactivated its aircraft war-ri

China's southern city of Shenzhen, designated as a special zone for dabbling in capitalism, will lau

Tin prices are likely to rise after March when export quotas start to have an effect on world supply

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index fell last week amid declining oil prices, a heavily w

TALL OIL FATTY ACIDS Union Camp Corp. said it increased the prices of its Unitol tall oil fa

Fri., Jan. 4, 1991 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

Eugene R. Swanson, 61, most recently executive vice president of the Pacific Division of Lavino Ship

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When a group of entrepreneurs launched a U.S. version of Europe's plush Orient Express passenger tra

Officials in China plan to invest more than US$1 billion in what they describe as local railways ove

CHILE REPORTS INFLATION AT 27.3 PERCENT; RATE FALLINGSANTIAGO, Chile - Inflation in Chile to

Japanese tourists armed with golf clubs and bundles of yen are reconquering the Micronesian islands

CZECHOSLOVAKIA TO GET $517 MILLION IN EC AIDBRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Community will

Canadians grumbled last week as they saw the price they pay for clothes, gasoline, newspapers and n

A new spirit of competition may revive an intermodal rail link between New England and Canada that

In an effort to look on the bright side, Iraqi officials are concluding that sanctions, at least in

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

Construction is scheduled to begin this month on a new 86,000-square-foot warehouse and cargo crane

Petroleos Mexicanos, the Mexican national oil company, informed its Japanese customers of a price cu