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The market for hybrids - financial instruments that combine elements of futures contracts and stocks

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

Aug. 18, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

British Petroleum Co. will join with Japanese and South Korean interests to explore two offshore oil

Japan's Ministry of Transport asked Northwest Airlines to improve its servicing of planes at Tokyo's

Right about now, Ruth Shaw would have been nervously awaiting the layoff slip. The 37-year-o

South Korean companies are reluctant to take out special foreign exchange loans for use later this y

INSURERS TO COMMENT ON ANTITRUST GUIDELINESThe California attorney general can expect "wheel

Although the South Korean government has said that it plans to step up the liberalization of the nat

The impact of by-products on live cattle prices has soared in the past few decades and should contin

Chile's debt with commercial banks is "perfectly manageable, given its low level," but the non-negot

* John Boyd - Economic Beat 3A * Gordon Platt - Currency Forecast 3A* JofC Industrial Price

INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION IN FRANCE RISES 1.5 PERCENTFrance's industrial production rose 1.5 per

The first step toward the creation of a single electronic information network for Europe's ports was

1421 (Aug. 18, 1989) Previous day - 1421 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

The Tennessee Valley Authority said it issued only one contract for 500 tons of steam coal in its la

BRITISH AIRWAYS (London) - Frank Pullman was appointed general manager, worldwide cargo operations.

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

DELOITTE HASKINS & SELLS (New York) - Charles L. Crowley was named head of this international accoun

Like any defense contractor, Pratt & Whitney is accustomed to the government's fickle attitude towar

STEEL IMPORTS INCREASE FOR 3RD STRAIGHT MONTHSteel imports rose in June for the third consec

Cocaine and high explosives may soon have more in common than the element of danger. Officia

There was a good deal of skepticism in the executive suites of U.S. shipping lines last week.

Aug. 18, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries Secretary-General Subroto, in a bid to stop cheating b

AIR INTER IN FRANCE PLACES ENGINE ORDEREVENDALE, Ohio - Air Inter, the French domestic airli

Investor Harold Simmons of Dallas may be launching a bid to acquire Georgia Gulf Corp., a $1 billion

An increasing number of HMOs are altering their rules to allow patients the option of going to outsi

CHINA BUYS US CORN FOR 1ST TIME IN 2 YEARSChina has bought U.S. corn for the first time in a

Most livestock and poultry producers appear to have outdistanced the impact oflast year's drought an

THE FIRST WARNING came when the church in our neighborhood said it could no longer collect newspaper

Claiming that a chemical firm "obstinately refused" to clean up pollution in Northwest Dade County,

With world cotton demand up sharply this year, growers say they will ask the Department of Agricultu

MC Shipping Inc. is a ship owning company that charters out its ships to other operators. The compan

Ports and shipping lines have each contributed to a proliferation of volume incentive freight rates,

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

The Massachusetts Port Authority said it has not abandoned hope for its controversial plan to ease c

CONSUMER PRICE RISE HIT 0.2 PERCENT LAST MONTHConsumer prices rose 0.2 percent in July, matc

REGIONAL BLOCS Doing Business in Israel: Meeting the Challenge of 1992. Sept. 11. Short<

Exxon Corp. late last week told Alaska Superior Court that it did not violate any federal or state l