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International Petroleum ExchangeJan. 3, 1997 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Anti-nuclear activists are concerned that outgoing Maine Yankee President Charles Frizzle may not be

Jan. 3, 1997RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unlea

Jan. 3, 1997No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 34.

Greenland's unexploited oil and mineral resources could provide ''economic freedom'' that would allo

New York Mercantile Exchange - Jan. 3, 1997Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

Jan. 3, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

U.S. inventories of distillate fuel oil, used as home heating and diesel fuel, rose 2.5 million barr

Friday, Jan. 3, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

Denmark has become the world's largest producer of windmills, following the bankruptcy of a U.S. man

HYDRO-QUEBEC FILESPOWER PLAN WITH FERCTORONTO - Hydro-Quebec is making another bid to crack

Cargo volumes kept growing, the ships were virtually full, and yet rates in the Europe-Asia trades s

The troubled Caucasus region of the former Soviet Union is poised for explosive growth in world trad

The muddled and sometimes contradictory regulatory environment in which liner shipping companies ope

The matron purchasing the Georgian-style coach lamp would gasp were she to learn her latest purchase

An Feng Steel Co. of Taiwan and Kingstream Resources of Perth, Australia, announced plans Friday to

China's exports of coal for 1996 are estimated at 30 million tons, up 11 percent from a year earlier

MSAS IN JOINT VENTUREWITH MEXICAN COMPANYBURLINGAME, Calif. - Forwarding and logistics provi

A year of relative calm in labor relations helped to lift Jamaica's bauxite and alumina exports to t

Iraq will be reinstated into OPEC's quota system gradually when it is allowed by the United Nations

TOTEM RESOURCES CORP.Marc Langland was appointed to the Seattle-based company's board of dir

OFFICE LOOKS AT ASSETSOF NEW JERSEY BLUESTRENTON, N.J. - Attorney General Peter Verniero say

Rotterdam, the world's biggest port, registered a fall in traffic in 1996 but retained its market sh

A wrecked Argentine navy ship is still leaking toxic diesel fuel into one of Antarctica's prime wild

Federal officials will investigate the shipyard accident that killed Lt. Gov. Kathleen Blanco's youn

Longtime New York maritime lawyer Gerald Ullman, who led the fight against mandatory longshore rates

Insurers expect a flood, but not a deluge, of homeowners and auto claims as the waters recede in the

California auto insurance rates decreased significantly in 1996 and will continue to do so in 1997,

WILLIS FABER NORTHAMERICA INC.Peter C. Hearn was appointed executive vice president of the r

The global ship financing market seems calm now, but two troubling impressions have appeared on the

Eagle Insurance, a division of The Robert Plan, a U.S. auto insurer, has bought Royal Insurance's Ne

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Friday, Jan. 3, 1997Percentages Per Year INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K.

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

A surge in imports, more business with foreign banks and restrictive monetary policies led Asian cou

A strong economy, which implies higher interest rates, will drive the dollar higher in the weeks ahe

Partners in the Airbus consortium reached a preliminary accord Friday to restructure the European pl

''Every single major carrier is in there trying to get into the market, but getting concrete deals i

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Jan. 12, '96 - Dec. 13, '96 (a graph)* A

President Clinton's decision Friday to delay full application of U.S. economic sanctions against Cub