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French shipowners shortly may order some 30 new and secondhand ships, worth an estimated 5.5 billion

Mar. 20, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

INFLATION IS NOT IMPROVING ANY. If anything it's getting worse, economists said. The 0.5 per

Despite predictions of more thefts like the raid of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, many museum

Three of the nation's largest insurance companies have filed suit so far in an effort to block insur

Panama should be able to ship nearly all of its 70,000-metric ton U.S. sugar quota by the end of Sep

Gold and other precious metal prices turned lower late Tuesday as investors abandoned the hard asset

Anxious to dispel any thoughts that it might be a vault for dirty money, Switzerland has passed a bi

DELTA SEEKS NOD TO FLY TO THREE SOVIET CITIESDelta Air Lines will seek authority to serve th

Nevada Power Co. will add 210 megawatts to its capacity next year to meet unexpectedly high demand f

KUWAIT COMPANY TO BUY MOBIL OIL ITALIANAMobil Corp. will sell its refining and fuels marketi

Canada's merchandise trade in January moved into a surplus of C$670.7 million (US$567 billion), afte

US-SOVIET GRAIN PACT NOT LIKELY THIS WEEKU.S. and Soviet negotiators are not likely to compl

E.I du Pont de Nemours & Co. has begun commercial-scale production of a high- strength polyamide fib

More foreign airlines are likely to seek access to U.S. cities under relaxed route standards adopted

The name of John Solt, director, Gulf region, for Hapag-Lloyd (America) Inc., was misspelled in an i

NORTH AMERICA Expo Mex '90. March 25-27. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Contact Trade

Sea Containers Ltd. and three subsidiaries said Tuesday they were extending the expiration date for

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

NY INSURERS CAN'T PASS OUT-OF-STATE COSTS ONALBANY, N.Y. - New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo sign

A state Senate task force on Tuesday recommended placing a one-year moratorium on any new mandates o

A superior court judge has melted a previously imposed freeze on automobile rates and premiums in Ge

The rate-setting conference of shipping lines in the westbound trans-Pacific trades will reduce its

Dexter Corp., based in Windsor Locks, Conn., said it agreed in principle to acquire all of the issue

Commodity Futures Trading Commission member Fowler West Tuesday proposed creating an arbitration pan

The replenishment of oil inventories, sorely depleted during December's record cold weather, was a m

Average weekly earnings of U.S. workers other than on farms rose 0.3 percent in February, after adju

The first double-stack railroad service between the United States and Mexico is scheduled to begin t

The Seabrook nuclear power plant's reactor began operating early Tuesday, five days after receiving

SEVERAL WEEKS AGO I learned that Peter Bouw and Lee M. van Wijk will assume the respective offices o

A sharp jump in the cost of clothing helped push consumer prices up a surprising 0.5 percent in Febr

FDIC EYES SEPARATION OF FOREIGN EXCHANGEFederal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman William Sei

Santa Fe Pacific Corp. completed repayment of the bank debt associated with its restructuring Tuesda

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It's one of the oldest cliches in the book. After any big robbery, the police are supposed to check

The U.S. merchandise trade gap widened in January to $9.25 billion, even though exports adjusted for

A House maritime subcommittee will take up the fiscal year 1991 budget requests of the Maritime Admi

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Developers of the World Trade Center of Mexico expect to sell $400 million to $600 million worth of

ITEL BUYS 35 PERCENT STAKE IN GRAND TRANSPORTNEW YORK - Itel Corp., San Francisco, has purch