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Avtex Fibers announced a 5-cent-a-pound price increase on all high wet modulus rayon staple types. T

Wine buyers are accustomed to finding obscure words on labels - brix, premier cru and appellation co

Schering-Plough Corp. agreed to purchase Palo Alto, Calif.-based Cooper Companies Inc.'s U.S. contac

El Paso Chemical Corp.'s profitability over the past six months has earned high marks from market an

In a story on vinyl chloride monomer published March 23 that listed current U.S. capacity for VCM,

CP Chemicals Inc. is raising prices for the following products, effective immediately or as contract

A banner year for key sectors of the petrochemical industry in 1988 has been projected by Robert B.

ALLIED SIGNAL INC. (Morris Township, N.J.) - Edward L. Hennessy Jr., chairman and CEO of Allied-Sign

Union Carbide Boosts Linde's Gas CapacityDANBURY, Conn. - Union Carbide Corp. announced that

BP Chemicals America Inc.'s International division and Sterling Chemicals Inc. will share the cost o

Airgas Inc., a distributor of industrial gases and related products, has signed a definitive agreem

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European Community gasoil markets have barely reacted to the closure of the Rhine and Danube rivers

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. officials have agreed to not attem

Evergreen Line, facing a multimillion-dollar fine by the U.S. Customs Servicebecause marijua

Exxon Corp. added 450 million barrels of oil and natural gas reserves last year, at a cost of $1.8 b

The sole remaining Boston shipyard capable of handling large vessels apparently will not suffer majo

Some 11,000 tugs, barges and other river vessels are expected to remain idle until at least next wee

Price Support Loans Extended by USDAThe U.S. Department of Agriculture has extended old and

Canadian shippers, carriers and maritime circles in the Great Lakes-Seaway system have given their i

The recently confirmed raw sugar sale to a British trader for China on behalf of Cuba's account was

The Chicago Board of Trade has suspended trading in its 5-month-old CBT Corporate Bond Index futures

The Singapore International Monetary Exchange has accepted Nikko Futures (Singapore) Pte as a corpor

The Chicago Board of Trade has proposed a new futures contract designed to hedge short-term interest

China Products Exhibition. Products from China ranging from arts and craft items to textiles, clothe

Wool this year is expected to replace coal as Australia's major export commodity, mainly because of

The U.S. dollar moved broadly higher Tuesday in response to a feeling that it was oversold on Monday

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

Members of a South Korean grain buying mission say U.S. pressure on Seoul to increase beef imports m

Many owners of small businesses in Massachusetts question how much Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' proposed

Steel production rose to 1.996 million tons in the week ended March 26, an increase of 0.3 percent f

EC Commission OKs French Aid to RenaultBRUSSELS, Belgium - The Common Market's executive bod

Chances of a new agreement regarding Japan's restrictions of U.S. beef and orange imports appear sli

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Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, threw in the towel Tuesday and pulled legislation, requiring notice

It is now nearly three years since The Journal of Commerce sought to become a truly national newspap

Premier Andreas Papandreou on Monday told a conference on investing in Greece that his Socialist gov

Government officials have given tentative approval to a plan by Cargill Inc. to build a coconut oil

Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing has won the right to negotiate the purchase of the provincially ow

Unionists at the Beijing No. 1 Machine Tool Plant recently decided the factory manager had not been