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Monday's Supreme Court decision to review a $1 million punitive damage judgment against a Californi

The process of reunifying Germany will not distract Bonn from moving with its European Community par

A Finnish consumer affairs court banned a television advertisement for the fast-food chain McDonald'

China's legislature Wednesday approved the mini-constitution by which it will rule Hong Kong after 1

Scottish Lion Insurance does not generally compete with the H.S. Weavers agency and the Walbrook Ins

The level of domestic debt among Chinese commercial entities now exceeds US$20 billion, officials ac

California small businesses condemned a compulsory employer-paid health insurance proposal as too ex

Two constitutional amendments aimed at removing a protected tax status for insurance companies have

Two new West German firms are suspected of having made illegal deliveries to the Libyan chemical pla

SODIUM SULFATE Atochem North America Inc., based in Philadelphia, said it increased the pric

The Interox Group said it will build a new sodium perborate monohydrate plant in the United States a

US-SOVIET GRAIN TALKS LIKELY IN MID-MAYU.S. and Soviet officials will meet sometime in mid-M

Britain's chemical industry is expected to buck the general trend for U.K. companies this year by in

Dow Chemical Co. and Domtar Inc. abandoned their joint venture to recycle plastic, the first casual

Borden Inc., which has acquired nine packaging films companies in the last two years, said it bought

As ecological concerns grow, so do the chances of a renaissance for flax, an oilseed that has been

The council of London's International Stock Exchange and the board of London's International Financi

Chicago's futures exchanges will try to enlist White House support in their effort to defeat proposa

The Senate Agriculture Committee Wednesday voted to tighten a proposal offered last week that would

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Commodity Exchange Inc. copper futures dropped a sharp 470 to 365 points Wednesday, on news the 24-d

COFFEE JUMPS ON NEWS BRAZIL READY TO ACTCoffee futures prices surged Wednesday on trade talk

Irwin Jacobs, a Minneapolis-based financier, said Tuesday he intended to hold wheat stocks deliverab

U.S. companies eager to explore business opportunities in Eastern Europe will have a chance next wee

BUREAU VERITAS CONTAINER SERVICES CORP. (New Milford, N.J.) - Alex Mak Kwok- yiu was named vice pres

The Federal Maritime Commission wants to cancel carriers' tariffs if they fail to file yearly statem

The European Community must not bend its rules to force U.S. companies to increase their investments

Michael Beard, the president of Australia-New Zealand Direct Line, takes a stoic view of the plight

MITSUBISHI, FIAT DISCUSS JOINT VENTUREJapan's Mitsubishi Motors is negotiating with several

Prompted by the promise of reduced transportation costs and the push to keep overweight trucks off p

Saudi Arabia changed the May price formulas for its European customers to become more responsive to

Apr. 4, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

AMERICANS, JAPANESE TO DISCUSS WOOD SALESThe United States and Japan will resume negotiation

DEUTSCHE BABCOCK TO BUY STAKE IN RILEYASHLAND, Ky. - Ashland Oil Inc. will sell 20 percent o

EAST GERMANY TO OPEN OIL MARKET TO WESTEast Germany is planning to open its petroleum market

U.S. oil drilling rig activity is expected to grow 15 percent this year amid rising prices and deman

Primary inventories of gasoline declined, the American Petroleum Institute's supply bulletin for the

The European Commission's bid to forge a single energy market in the European Community after 1992 h

SOVIETS PLAN MEASURES TO AVERT OIL STRIKEIn a bid to avert a strike which could cripple the

My friend Jim Flannery, chairman of Houston-based Oilfield Technology International, which has a rep