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

Faced with a resurgent Europe, the leaders of five North African nations Monday vowed to speed up ec

Great Eastern Shipping Inc., general agent for Nordstar Line SA, appointed Bertel Shipping Co. as No

Parallel strikes at Latin America's largest steel plant near Rio and at Brazil's main Ford Motor Co.

HEMISPHERIC GLUE - that's what paperless trading could be for the North and South Americancontinents

BANKS REPORTED FACING BIG LOSS ON PERU DEBTLeading world banks, particularly the U.K.'s Barc

July 23, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

July 23, 1990 No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 23.20

July 23, 1990 Copper Total, 12,403. Gold Total, .1,589,362.Silver Total, .252,566,462.

VEHICULAR PRODUCTION IN JAPAN FALLS 1 PERCENTJapanese motor vehicle production in June total

1138 (July 23, 1990) Previous day - 1129 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

The U.S. dollar tumbled Monday, falling to a 29-month low against the deutsche mark, following the s

EC economic and finance ministers Monday agreed to further study a UK plan to create a so-called ha

A top British bank launched an electronic payments service Monday, marking a major stride in Europe'

The city's new commissioner of ports and trade said that expanded marketing is the best way to bring

The Federal Maritime Commission agreed to settle an investigation of the freight forwarding practice

Port Everglades Authority commissioners voted last week not to levy another controversial property t

New York Mercantile Exchange July 19, 1990CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

International Petroleum Exchange July 23, 1990Brent Crude Oil(Dollars Per Barrel)

July 23, 1990 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

A cheery 1951 pop song rang out: "Shrimp boats are a-comin' . . . There's dancin' tonight."

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A Philadelphia stevedore that lost out on a contract to operate one of the area's main container ter

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International Shipholding Corp. made a bet in early 1989, and apparently it's paying off. Th

The captain of a Matson Navigation Co. containership was not allowed to sail with his vessel over th

London shipbrokers say Exxon Corp. is having problems with its new drug and alcohol testing policy,

President Bush Monday unveiled a three-point plan aimed at boosting exportsfrom four South A

Clarence Lee Williams said he watched in agony as the Cypress Street Viaduct collapsed "like domino

When R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. decided to go the third-party route, the company took a non-traditio

Compagnie Maritime d'Affretement, the Marseilles-headquartered container shipping line, and Polish O

West Germany's plan to end direct shipbuilding subsidies fails to impress the head of a U.S. shipbui

Yukong Ltd.'s naphtha-cracking plant in Ulsan, South Korea, damaged by a fire Sunday, will be closed

Sumitomo Chemical and Arco Chemical Co. said they will expand propylene oxide and styrene monomer ca

Big oil spills in New Jersey waterways will mean fines of up to $10 million for the offending compan

Coastal Petroleum Co., a 90 percent-owned unit of Coastal Caribbean Oils & Minerals Ltd., said Monda

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) July 23, 1990Bid AskedCopper-

Ask anyone from New York to Moscow what the main obstacle to doing business in the Soviet Union is a

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