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There's a new player in the liquefied natural gas vessel purchase game, and it's upped the ante dram

U.K. confectionery and soft drinks group Cadbury Schweppes said Wednesday its pretax profit rose 16.

Attempts by several of the world's leading coffee producers to formulate proposals for a new coffee

Mexico's two largest processors of decaffeinated coffee are looking to import between 300,000 and 40

Cocoa futures continued to trade about $30 higher Wednesday although traders were apprehensive about

Petrochemical capacity in Southeast Asia is being rapidly increased, with announcements almost daily

GHANA ARGUES AGAINST COCOA-PRODUCING CARTELACCRA, Ghana - The formation of a cocoa-producer

Japan's newly appointed agriculture minister Wednesday questioned the country's ban on commercial ri

CONAGRA INC. (Omaha) - Robert H. Peyton was named president of the international agribusiness' Easte

Soybean futures were moderately higher Wednesday in response to a surge in the price of soybean oil

Iran is expected to produce more than 3 million tons of petrochemicals in the year starting March, u

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FRANCE'S MATIF UNVEILS 3-MONTH PIBOR OPTIONSFrance's financial futures exchange, Matif, anno

Two full memberships at the Chicago Board of Trade Tuesday changed hands at $325,001 and then $325,0

South Korean companies will be allowed to buy the total volume of their planned overseas futures tra

The first service station in California retailing compressed natural gas for automotive use opens to

Traders in the Japanese futures market, both domestic and foreign, see a feud brewing between the To

PacifiCorp's Pacific Power & Light unit said kilowatt-hour sales increased 6 percent for the fourth

ROBERT GENTILE ASSUMES FOSSIL ENERGY POSITIONRobert Gentile was sworn in as the Energy Depar

World Bank approval of a second loan to China, after a moratorium following the June 1989 military c

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

E. GERMAN BANK CHIEF SEEKS MORE LATITUDEFRANKFURT, West Germany - The head of East Germany's

The United States Postal Service likely will seek a third extension of its domestic airmail system c

EGYPT CUTS OIL PRICES BY 60 CENTS A BARRELCAIRO, Egypt - Egypt is cutting crude oil export p

FRENCH TRADE DEFICIT SHOWS SHARP DECLINEFrance recorded a seasonally adjusted trade deficit

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Sales of imported cars in Japan are up and show promise of growing in the 1990s, but Japanese insura

European Expedite, the troubled European wholesale air express carrier based in Brussels, has been t

Canada's second-largest airline, Canadian Airlines International Ltd., is negotiating alliances with

* Trading With Czechoslovakia 4A * Tom Connors - Washington 8A* Chemical Industry Pushes Ele

The House of Delegates, Virginia's lower house, passed a bill Wednesday that would give banks in the

The Commerce Department's Bureau of Export Administration offers these tips to exporters and freight

INSURERS TO FOOT BILL IN COPPER MINE CLOSUREMELBOURNE, Australia - Australia's Bougainville

German unification is coming at just the right time for Tishman Speyer Properties Inc., a New York-b

KAIFU PLEDGES EFFORT TO EASE US RELATIONSPrime Minister Toshiki Kaifu said Wednesday that Ja

A surge in regional business has prompted American computer-component maker Western Digital Corp. to

Insurance companies for Springfield Mall concluded a multimillion-dollar settlement Tuesday with the

The nation's pension insurance agency has urged the Supreme Court to leave intact its ability to pre

Management decision-making by Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Massachusetts, as well as state regulation,

Harvey Rosenfield, chairman of the California consumer group Voter Revolt and author of Proposition