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New York Mercantile Exchange - June 3, 1997Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High Lo

GAS PROJECT BOARDDISBANDED IN NIGERIALONDON - The board of directors of the Nigerian Liquefi

June 4, 1997Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

Iraq tried to send five oil executives to London to negotiate its first petroleum sale here since th

Wednesday June 4, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

Leftist rebels have dynamited Colombia's main oil pipeline for the 31st time this year, a spokeswoma

FDA BANS SLAUGHTEREDANIMAL PARTS IN FEEDWASHINGTON - The government has banned the use of vi

U.S. gasoline inventories rose by 2.9 million barrels in the week ended May 30, compared with the pr

Northwest Natural Gas and Portland General Electric have reached agreement on PGE surplus gas sales,

Ford Motor Co. plans to make 250,000 vehicles that can fill up on either gasoline or ethanol, a move

TWO AUSTRALIAN BANKSTO SELL HEALTH INSURANCEMELBOURNE, Australia - A government scheme to en

FEDERAL EXPRESS UNVEILSSERVICE ENHANCEMENTSMEMPHIS - Federal Express Corp. announced three s

This week, I found myself in the unusual position of actually having to buy some insurance. Since I'

Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin has signed a government order to speed up settlement of a

Insurers will be eyeing New Jersey's gubernatorial race now that Jim McGreevey is the Democrat's cha

Texas lawmakers closed their biennial legislative session by ushering in a number of important tort

The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to approve a six-month renewal of its ''oil fo

CANADIAN ATLANTIC FREIGHTCONFERENCESMichael Jordan, chief executive of Canada Maritime, was

Mexican environmental officials have published long-awaited rules of operation for companies that ar

Shippers and shipowners have a litany of complaints about ports around the world.Shippers wa

Vermont Sen. James Jeffords and Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe hope to funnel millions of federal dollars

The receivers of bankrupt Dutch plane maker Fokker said they would begin liquidation of the company

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GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

APL Ltd., the United States' second-largest ship line, is planning to spin off its U.S.-flag unit as

Tang Pei Fen, 34, has worked for Lucent Technologies of Shanghai Ltd. for four years following some

SHIPSBULK CARRIER SAFETY TO TOPMARITIME PANEL'S AGENDALONDON - The safety of

Independent government analysts are expected to tell a Senate panel today that the proposed alliance

Backers of a bill to decontrol exports of common encoded software have pulled within one vote of app

The Port of Kobe is striving to win back business that has not returned since the city was devastate

Tuesday, June 3, 1997Percentages Per Year INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by Reuter Money Service, are selling rates among

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, June 7, 1996 - June 3, 1997 (a graph)* A

LABOUR VOWS REVERSALOF SHIPPING'S DECLINELONDON - Britain's new Labour government is promisi

George P. Livanos, a committed marine environmentalist who built his Ceres Hellenic Shipping Enterpr

The U.S. dollar declined slightly Tuesday as the German government backed down from its confrontatio

Canada has long been cast as a country divided by two solitudes, according to a locally famous phras

President Clinton came under sharp criticism from a Senate panel Tuesday for postponing until Septem

The chairman of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. assured concerned customers Tuesday his company will not r