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SOVIET UNION TO BUY COCOA FROM GHANAACCRA, Ghana - An agreement in principle has been reache

Government-owned Jurong Shipyard Ltd. posted improved results for the six months ended June 30, incr

Out in the sugar fields, Ricardo Bantad and his fellow laborers are members of the National Federati

Frustrated by telephones that don't work and lights that don't come on, Guyana President Desmond Hoy

July 30, 1990 This table shows the vessels scheduled to call at U.S. coal terminals and the

HELLMANN'S US UNIT CITES RECORD REVENUELONG BEACH, Calif. - Hellmann International Forwarder

U.S. producers have raised prices of stearic acid over the last month, as they tried to counter an e

Foreign currency dealers expect the dollar to remain quiet this week, awaiting Friday's June U.S. em

International Petroleum Exchange July 27, 1990Brent Crude Oil(Dollars Per Barrel)

Coffee futures prices plunged on profit-taking after rising sharply on frost scares in Brazilian gro

Record-high domestic soybean oil use makes it almost inevitable that the United States will continue

The past weekend's coup attempt in Trinidad and Tobago occurred just as the Caribbean nation was ren

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This country's trade gap widened in the first two months of the fiscal year, and the government crit

The first line of credit to be offered by a new Brazilian-based International Finance Corp. office c

Chinese officials outlined new priorities for, and barriers to, overseas investment over the weekend

I am number 31. On the night train to Budapest, numbers 32 through 36 are sleeping soundly i

Though large companies in Japan, Germany and France strengthened their capital structures in the 198

Textile Quotas to Watch as of July 27, 1990* Country Category Description

July 30, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

July 30, 1990 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

July 30, 1990 Copper Total, 12,273. Gold Total, .1,530,906.Silver Total, .251,366,861.

Shipowners and airlines strongly object to a Canadian government proposal to levy additional charges

Further erosion in soybean and corn prices before harvest is almost inevitable given good crop prosp

U.S. ocean carrier officials are bracing themselves for a new wrinkle in the Navy's latest defense c

Continental Airlines has filed an application with the U.S. Department of Transportation for permiss

Three years of political wrangling for an export-licensing office here came to an end last week, wh

The government of Iraq, against which the U.S. Congress last week voted to impose economic sanctions

Singapore International Monetary Exchange July 30, 1990Dubai Crude Oil(Dollars Per B

New York Mercantile Exchange July 27, 1990CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

July 30, 1990 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 234.04 off 0.71 which compares w

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

ARKWRIGHT MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. (Waltham, Mass.) - Thomas M. Jenkins was elected to the Central Advis

Brazilian dockworkers last week offered a no-strike pledge through Sept. 10 while discussions contin

An oil spill that spread across five miles of Galveston Bay Sunday could have been a lot worse if a

P&O CONTAINERS OPENS NEW US HEADQUARTERSEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - London-based ship line P&O C

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All ship traffic has ground to a halt here this week, with 58 vessels stranded Monday in the wake of

The trend-setting, individualistic California voters that brought you tax- cutting Proposition 13 an