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Acid rain is in danger of falling into second place among the most hazardous environmental problems

Shell Canada Makes Significant Gas FindCALGARY, Alberta - Shell Canada Ltd. discovered signi

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

It's not only the weather that's heating up. The benzene spot market has warmed at least a nickel ov

Statistics compiled on petrochemical trade for May 1988 by the National Petroleum Refiners Associati

Phillips 66 Co., a subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum Co., will expand its Marlex high-density polyeth

NEPERA INCREASES PYRIDINE PRICEHARRIMAN, N.Y. - Nepera Inc., a major worldwide supplier of p

W.R. Grace & Co. subsidiary Grace Japan K.K. has opened a new $8 million research center in Atsugi,

The Food & Drug Administration, in a long-delayed action, said it would allow Red No. 36, a common d

The state Insurance Department is reviewing a rate increase proposal by Blue Cross and Blue Shield o

Washington became the fourth state to reject an unfriendly takeover of Farmers Group Inc. by the Bat

Analysts are split on whether Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures can make another run at season

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Year8/3 8/2 Chan

WILLAMETTE SETTLES WITH UNION WORKERSPORTLAND, Ore - Willamette Industries Inc. has reached

Despite trade tensions between the two countries, Japan remains the top consumer of U.S. agricultura

London cocoa traders have expressed considerable dissent after the International Cocoa Organization

The U.S. dollar declined slightly Wednesday, moving in a narrow range in a fairly active market.

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

Six years after Mexico's debt crisis began, declining living standards and unprecedented political g

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

DEUTSCHE BANK SIGNS BIG MANHATTAN LEASENEW YORK - Shearson Lehman Hutton said Deutsche Bank

The all-male stock market wrangled for years over whether to let women become brokers, but when the

Wed., Aug. 3, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

Australia is continuing to strengthen its banking links with China. National Australia Bank

The Federal Reserve Board Wednesday officially approved international capital standards for banks an

Steel production rose to 1.965 million tons in the week ended July 30, an increase of 3.1 percent fr

Activity in finance, insurance, transportation, construction and other services continued strong in

Shipments from the steel service center industry, which includes carbon industrial steel products an

The government said Tuesday its chief forecasting gauge of future economic activity shot up 1.4 perc

Sales of new homes surged 8.4 percent in June, the biggest increase since February, the government r

A surge in manufactured exports paved the way to a 5.5 percent rise in global trade volume in 1987 o

Orders to U.S. factories for manufactured goods, powered by a big jump in demand for civilian and mi

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of Commerce , U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, Room HCHB

A new Bank of China study foresees great demand for a type of steel used in some electrical machiner

The nation's largest banks made a pretty penny trading yen, deutsche marks and other foreign currenc

Texaco Inc., which has already sold two major assets this year after emergingfrom bankruptcy

Indonesia, the world's largest exporter of liquefied natural gas, is moving into the liquefied petro

Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. and the other utility co-owners of the Nine Mile Point 2 nuclear plant fi

Chemoil Corp., a major maritime fuel supplier, expects to enter the refining business today with the

EGYPT RAISES PRICE OF EXPORT OIL BY $1.40CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt said it raised its oil export