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UAW SEEKS TO REPRESENTFEDEX DISTRICT'S LABORDETROIT - The United Auto Workers has petitioned

French state insurer GAN, and its banking subsidiary CIC, are ready to be privatized, Didier Pfeiffe

The single European market is nothing like a reality, despite a raft of European Commission legislat

A bill has been introduced in the New York Legislature to make insurance companies pay legal fees in

CANADIAN FINDS OILOFF WESTERN AUSTRALIACALGARY - PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd. said it has made

International Shipholding Corp. named two executives to the top management positions of its principa

To delay is to kill, the president of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. said Friday in a letter urging the M

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,500-$1,600 per ton lo

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 248.08 up 1.47 whi

International Petroleum ExchangeMay 9, 1997 *Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

May 9, 1997Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent pr

U.S. Republican lawmakers last week renewed their effort to abolish the U.S. Energy Department, call

May 9, 1997No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 27.7

Oil giant Exxon Corp. is expected to approve the construction of a major petrochemical plant in Sing

May 9, 1997RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unlead

New York Mercantile Exchange - May 8, 1997Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High L

DOW JONES CHANGESUTILITIES AVERAGE LINEUPNEW YORK - In the biggest shake-up in 50 years, Dow

Bre-X Minerals, the Canadian mining company whose stock was destroyed by revelations that its gold s

May 9, 1997U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o.

An Australian utility undertaking a $20 million upgrade of one Vietnamese power grid sees it as a po

FORMOSA PLASTICS PLANSSECOND PLANT IN USTAIPEI - Taiwan's petrochemical giant Formosa Plasti

A Canadian mining company is putting $50 million down on a copper and cobalt contract that could hel

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China is proposing to build what's billed as the world's first plant to convert coal directly into c

Insurance will be the focal point as Asian shipowners gather in Singapore today for the sixth time a

Friday May 9, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing t

DHL WORLDWIDE EXPRESSJoseph Riera has joined DHL Airways Inc. as senior vice president and c

Waterfront employers in Southern California may complain about the cost of longshore labor, but a st

Prices for new marine containers from the world's largest supplier have jumped 10 percent.Th

Border smuggling between Hong Kong and the mainland - now rampant according to many analysts - will

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In a challenge to U.S. sanctions policy, Iran said Thursday that it has awarded an offshore oil deve

A power plant somewhere in Africa. A pipeline in the former Soviet Union. A telecommunications proje

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

Thursday, May 8, 1997Percentages Per Year INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, May 10, 1996 - May 8, 1997 (a graph)* An

The U.S. dollar fell Thursday as Eisuke Sakakibara, an influential Japanese Finance Ministry officia

Elimination of the federal ethanol excise tax exemption would ''increase the trade deficit significa

CHICAGO MERC EXPANDSITS CURRENCY TRADINGThe Chicago Mercantile Exchange late this week began

The U.S. Export-Import Bank won the first round Thursday against congressional critics seeking to re