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This week: NEW ENGLAND: Public Service Co. of New Hampshire, Manchester, N.H.MID-ATLANTIC: N

U.S. nationwide gasoline inventories stand at only about one day's supply above the government's min

Eastern European managers, keen to do business with Western partners, are hopeful that a summer spen

The Department of Labor proposed nearly $280,000 in fines against United Parcel Service Inc. for "wi

A record world wheat crop and the Iraq embargo should cause world wheat trade to be almost unchanged

The ethylene glycol plant in Jubail on Saudi Arabia's eastern coast is still operating normally, a s

The Soviet Union is losing 1 million metric tons of grain a day during the harvest due to labor, tra

Aug. 21, 1990 No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 28.9

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The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 240.55 up0.76 which comp

Willis Faber PLC, the London insurance and reinsurance broking group that will merge with U.S. insur

When Mark Poulter received a late-night phone call at his Brussels hotel asking him to return to his

Curtis Bay Co., a coal facility at the Port of Baltimore, is dredging its access channel in order to

If Europe is engaged in a Great War among automakers, then the Southern Front is a blustering commer

West German officials seized a shipment to Iraq that could include steel used in nuclear technology,

Mounting congestion and anticipated traffic growth has prompted Sea-Land Service Inc. to seek a new

US FINDS JAPANESE DUMPING INSTRUMENTSImports of light-scattering instruments from Japan are

EVODE GROUP ACQUIRES DEXTER PVC BUSINESSDexter Corp. completed the sale of its polyvinyl chl

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter told International Trade and Industry Minister Kabun Muto

US SUGAR OUTPUT FELL 14 PERCENT IN 1990 FIRST HALFU.S. sugar production in the first six mon

Tuesday Aug. 21, 1990 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

Tue., Aug. 21, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Aluminum ingots- $1,715-$1,725 per ton lots & in wareho

After a promising start, three bulk shipping companies formed by Bergvall+Hudner Group over the las

Chesapeake Shipping Co. intends to continue operating five Kuwaiti-owned U.S.-flag tankers once it g

TAKARA PLANS FACILITY FOR RESEARCH IN NYNEW YORK - Takara Co., Japan's second-largest toy ma

I was consulting my notes on two interviews, trying to decide which would form the basis of my next

Two bidders, including one that could emerge with a virtual monopoly on Mexican copper production, o

COASTAL GAS MARKETING COMPANY Coastal Gas Marketing Company (formerly ANR Gathering Company)

Aug. 21, 1990 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid- Prem

International Petroleum Exchange Aug. 21, 1990Brent Crude Oil(Dollars Per Barrel)

Aug. 21, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

As of Aug. 21, 1990 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list price

Aug. 21, 1990 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Consumers Union is calling for major changes in Texas' insurance guarantyfunds, saying that

London marine underwriters have cut the cost of hull insurance for certain destinations in the Persi

Burlington Northern Railroad, which ranks itself as the nation's second- largest user of diesel fuel

E. GERMAN RETAIL SALES PLUNGED 44 PERCENT IN JULYEast German retail sales plunged 44 percent

Fourteen months after his appointment as chairman of P&O Containers Ltd., Tim Harris claims not to h

GASOLINE PRICES FELL LAST WEEK IN MICH.DEARBORN, Mich. - Self-serve unleaded gasoline prices