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BOEING, MCDONNELLSHAREHOLDERS TO MEETSEATTLE - Boeing Co. and McDonnell Douglas Corp. shareh

A strengthening U.S. dollar is beginning to hurt U.S. companies that sell into world export markets,

U.S. officials questioned the Japanese government this week about pending legislation that will lift

As of Feb. 27, 1997Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

A major recovery in Russian oil production is still some years away, because Russia's new energy com

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 242.89 up 1.27

International Petroleum ExchangeFeb. 27, 1997 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Feb. 27, 1997Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Feb. 27, 1997RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unle

Feb. 27, 1997No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 30

New York Mercantile Exchange - Feb. 26, 1997Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High L

Feb. 27, 1997U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

NEW AIR CARGO SITE SETFOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAMORENO VALLEY, Calif. - A second new air cargo

AIRAIR FRANCE PROMISESSERVICE DESPITE STRIKEPARIS - Air France said it would

LUFTHANSA CARGOWolfgang Schmitz was appointed senior vice president of sales and planning an

Ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau and his insurers are suing the Singapore shipyard where his research

The Clinton administration has made South America the latest target of its free-market aviation poli

Indonesia, long a laggard in maritime infrastructure, will soon have its first modern containerport

The Port of Liverpool is switching to a new communications network for the local community this week

An early test of how willing the United States is to open up its telecommunications market gets unde

''The key to China's accession is really market access. That's the bottom line of everything they ha

RUSSIAN TRADE UNIONSVOW TO STRIKE IN MARCHMOSCOW - Russian trade unions vowed Thursday to go

With new labeling requirements scheduled to take effect in Mexico this weekend, exporters and U.S. g

Computers and parts were the shining light in Thailand's trade performance in an otherwise gloomy 19

RUBIN: TIME TO PAYUN, WORLD BANK DEBTWASHINGTON - U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Thurs

The Philippines continues to maintain that it does not unfairly block imports of pork or poultry fro

KANSAS HOUSE ADVANCESOUT-OF-STATE TAX BREAKTOPEKA, Kan. - The House has given tentative appr

California this week introduced legislation that would prohibit insurance companies from using domes

Compensation awards announced this week resulting from two airline disasters highlighted the vast di

The ever-widening losses at Physician Corp. of America are endangering a $509 million managed-care m

MASSMUTUAL PROFIT SHOWSGAIN FOLLOWING MERGERSPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Massachusetts Mutual Life I

Russia's chief insurance regulator, Valery Sukhov, believes the Russian insurance industry is just m

OFFERS TO BUY* CHEDDAR CHEESE 50 percent FAT. Target price: $2,100, quantity: 1,000 metric t

BAKER HUGHES TO BUYSPECIALTY FIRM PETROLITEST. LOUIS - Petrolite Corp., a specialty chemical

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,524-$1,595 per ton lo

Police say a murderer who eluded them for weeks died in the ValuJet crash that killed 110 people in

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Thursday Feb. 27, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

Two Japanese oil companies that tested crude oil from Alaska's North Slope last year said they won't

China goes to market today with a bond issue of around $120 million to help finance the world's larg