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DELTA WILL REPORT BIG DROP IN EARNINGSNEW YORK - Delta Air Lines said higher fuel costs will

CPC INTERNATIONAL INC. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.) - Gordon Granger was named a vice president, effecti

Gold prices rose sharply Monday following higher crude oil prices. The precious metal market

THEY'RE IN!!! It's been a long and uncertain romance, but Japan and Singapore have officiall

An estimated 5 million metric tons of new ethylene production capacity will come onstream in South E

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Sept. 24, 1990 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid- Pre

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The International Monetary Fund was directed Monday to find ways quickly to help countries hurt by t

The U.S. dollar was lower against the deutsche mark but mostly higher against the yen Monday afterno

Two of the world's giant industrial groups, West Germany's Daimler-Benz AG and Japan's Mitsubishi gr

Tourists shopping along Charlotte Amalie's Main Street can find little evidence of the fierce hurric

H&M INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION INC. (Secaucus, N.J.) - Bruce Abels has joined this international a

SULFURIC ACID Olin Corp. said it will increase off-schedule prices of sulfuric acid and oleu

Idemitsu Chemicals Co. will build four petrochemical plants at a cost of US$380 million, and may bui

Charges of document-shredding were hurled at California Insurance Commissioner Roxani Gillespie as a

Premium Talk is a Journal of Commerce feature spotlighting insurance industry issues with top-level

A California highway patrolman who specializes in nabbing truckers is receiving an award from the Ca

As of Sept. 24, 1990 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list pric

International Petroleum Exchange Sept. 24, 1990Brent Crude Oil(Dollars Per Barrel)

TOYOTA ANNOUNCEMENT NEAR ON 2ND US PLANTToyota Motor Corp., whose share of the U.S. Car mark

SPAIN TO PROVIDE LATIN, CARIBBEAN AIDSpain pledged $500 million in additional aid to Latin A

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Funeral services will be held this afternoon for Carl F. Ewig, a leading shipping executive who help

Official action to improve maritime safety is on the wrong track, according to a leading London insu

FRANCE'S AGF TO BUY BELGIAN INSURANCE FIRMThe French insurance company Assurances Generales

Michel Camdessus, International Monetary Fund managing director, ruled out final approval of an IMF

Hot markets in secondary corridors and refrigerated shipments should help railroads compete with tru

California truck fuel prices have gone up 45.8 percent in the six weeks from the beginning of August

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Monday Sept. 24, 1990 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

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LAFARGE CORP. OPENS NEW CEMENT TERMINALRESTON, Va. - Lafarge Corp. has opened a new 6,000-to

FERRY SERVICE TO LINK SOUTH KOREA, CHINASouth Korea and China do not have diplomatic relatio

Oil prices climbed to their highest level in almost 10 years Monday, driven up by Iraqi President Sa

BEFORE NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE natural gas futures trading began on April 3, spot gas was activ

The European Community is chasing large beef export contracts in a bid to reduce its rapidly rising

The financial debacle facing one of Indonesia's largest private banks, BankDuta, will force

The settlement that permits the sale and eventual return to service of three liquefied natural gas t