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The new Dubai crude oil futures contract, launched last month on the Singapore International Monetar

Former Tampa Port Director Emmett Lee Jr., who resigned last week, leaves behind a legacy of take-ch

Reversing a six-year stand against joining with another agents' group, the National Board of Directo

As of July 18, 1990 Prices in the spot chemicals table in clude spot quotations or list pric

Household refrigerator manufacturers have proposed a plan to recycle chlorofluorocarbons that they s

East Germany announced an emergency aid package Wednesday to rescue its farm sector, on the brink of

BASF Corp. of Parsippany, N.J., announced it will build a $29 million acrylic copolymer dispersion p

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 232.39 off 0.96 which compares

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The chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee again accused Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter

A barge backing out of Exxon's Bayway refinery here struck a docked barge about noon Wednesday and b

Crude oil stocks grew by 4.7 million barrels and were 53.4 million barrels higher than year-ago leve

MCDONNELL DOUGLAS REVERSES LOSSST. LOUIS - McDonnell Douglas Corp. earned $57 million, or $1

The transfer of information between computers has been touted widely for its speed, efficiency, seam

Leading retailers are step- ping up campaigns to create electronic links with suppliers, with Sears,

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The House Wednesday approved a fiscal 1991 appropriations measure for agriculture that totals $50.3

As higher taxes and banking problems cloud the prospects for New England's economy, exports of capit

Reeling under a surge of U.S. imports, Canada's furniture manufacturers may be the first domestic in

At Famos, East Germany's largest manufacturer of rubber stamps, workers now think twice before ducki

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Several U.S.-based combination carriers are showing new interest in cargo, or at least some segments

"Sit down! We are going to take off," shouted a voice from the cockpit of the Soviet military transp

Less than a year after fledgling Tampa Bay International Terminals Inc. was started up as a private

What's an American company? It's a question that has been dogging congressional debate this

Before deciding what to do, this small port at the tip of Tampa Bay is waiting for the fallout from

INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION IN FRANCE RISES 0.3 PERCENTFrench industrial production, excluding con

NOW ISSUES CALL FOR PER-MILE RATESThe National Organization of Women Inc. told state lawmake

New York Mercantile Exchange July 17, 1990CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

July 18, 1990 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

DAVID HALPERIN NAMED NEW COMEX PRESIDENTDavid A. Halperin was elected president of the Commo

S. KOREAN AGENCY NAMES LEE The Korea Trade Promotion Center, commonly known as Ko- tra, name

The Bush administration has held up the shipment of an industrial furnace to Iraq despite prior gove

AMOCO CORP. (Houston) - David F. Work was named president and general manager of Amoco Egypt Co.

OIL IMPORTS SURGE TO RECORD LEVELSU.S. oil imports surged to record levels in the first half

Underdeveloped Laos has an economy plagued with infrastructural and bureaucratic problems, but as th

Harried executives trying to work with outdated equipment on business trips in Eastern Europe could

Japan should improve the quality and the quantity of its aid to developing nations, an Economic Plan

The Massachusetts Port Authority, in an effort to keep a local congressman and airport neighbors hap

Investigators looking into a tanker grounding last month that caused a major oil spill in New York H