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U.S. lobby groups are skeptical about Bush administration plans to negotiate a global phase-out of p

The fall of the Berlin Wall last November has raised the fortunes of the Port of Hamburg, officials

The European Community began round-the-clock high-level consultations Friday in hopes of averting a

July 27, 1990 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) July 27, 1990Bid AskedCopper-

July 27, 1990 Copper Total, 13,088. Gold Total, .1,531,002.Silver Total, .251,366,861.

Will insurers bail out the U.S. shipbuilding and tanker industries by offering lower premiums for do

The Federal Reserve Board is asking Citicorp to provide additional information on plans by a Citicor

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index firmed slightly last week amid strength in crude oil

Evidence that the U.S. economy is weaker than most analysts had believed will exert downward pressur

AETNA REPORTS RISE IN NET FOR QUARTERAetna Life & Casualty reported that net income for the

A consortium of insurance companies unveiled a plan to help businesses, homeowners and communities r

"Why can't we just call a charter a lease?" wondered Alvin Green, executive vice president of Bay Ta

Ocean shipping tariffs finally are making the leap from the printed page to the computer database.

Cargo space aboard air freighters will grow 77 percent during the 1990s, as dozens of aging passenge

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July 27, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

Aluminum ingots- $1,530-$1,540 per ton lots & in warehouse min. 99.

BIDDER FOR OAKBRIDGE CLAIMS MAJOR BACKINGSYDNEY, Australia - A takeover bid for Oakbridge Lt

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's top internal investigator blasted NRC staffers last Wednesday fo

President Carlos Andres Perez swore in seven new ministers Friday in a cabinet reshuffle that streng

The Soviet Union's hard currency balance of payments deficit in the first half of 1990 topped $11 bi

Sales of its coal holdings and delivery of nearly three times as many jumbo jets as last year pushed

More express service, better aircraft and more routes with balanced flows of cargo will be among the

U.S. multinational corporations and key labor unions have teamed up to press for more funds for fede

CAMBEX CORP. (Waltham, Mass.) - Setting its sights on the European market for computer storage and p

The nascent restoration of diplomatic links between China and Indonesia is likely to have wide comme

The Interstate Commerce Commission will hold a public conference in September to examine whether the

TRADERS TRIED TO PUSH freight futures prices upward early last week, although the lack of follow-thr

Winterthur Group, Switzerland's second largest company in the international direct insurance market,

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

MARAD FINDS BUYER FOR PHOENIX SHIPSTwo ships at the center of one of the biggest Maritime Ad

A federal bankruptcy judge here temporarily postponed a decision on the question of cotton ownership

The Coast Guard is seeking industry comments by Sept. 10 on its proposal to establish random drug te

RAIL CARLOADING DATA have been looking pretty good lately, but the numbers aren't as good as they se

July 27, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

As of July 27, 1990 Prices in the spot chemicals table in clude spot quotations or list pric

A 65-pound crane hook that crashed into an $80 million communications satellite last June at Cape Ca

The Manitoba provincial government in western Canada has unloaded the general insurance division of

Argentina will crush a minimum 7 million metric tons of soybeans for export during the 1990-91 (Apri