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Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150per ton lots &

Monsanto Co. has promised to pay $1 million to whoever comes up with a way to recycle ammonia in che

Hong Kong faces stern challenges to its prime - and lucrative - role in China's foreign trade. Most

As of Aug. 23, 1994 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

Chicago Board of Trade members will vote Sept. 19 on a proposal by their former chairman, Leslie Ros

UZBEKISTAN EXPECTS GOOD COTTON HARVESTMOSCOW - Uzbekistan, the former Soviet Union's

Starbucks Coffee Co. will be opening a distribution center and coffee bean roasting operation in Yor

Soaring property costs are forcing foreign companies in Hong Kong to make tough decisions. Their emp

Several Russian governmental bodies, commercial banks and gold industry enterprises said they were f

The U.S. government's top official in Hong Kong has adopted a policy of actively promoting the inter

Northeast Indiana had the second-largest wheat harvest among the state's nine districts, according t

Aug. 23, 1994 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry has formally approved the palladium futures con

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 228.49 off 1.28 wh

1503 (Aug. 23, 1994) Previous day - 1506 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Aug. 23, 1994 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

Singapore is leading Asian ports in slashing marine bunker fuel prices and is starting to look compe

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Usually the story is about what's going into containers. You know, inventive shipping-line sales peo

Forty feet under the Mississippi River's opaque waters, a 5-foot-high ledge of mud blocks the way of

KOREAN YARD, UNION REACH TEMPORARY ACCORDSEOUL, South Korea - The Hyundai group and

The nearest ocean is three countries away and not a hint of a salty breeze ever makes it to this his

Wilmington will become the first Southeastern seaport permitted to use the cold treatment of importe

Lloyd's of London is expected to show an overall loss of UK1 billion ($1.55 billion) in the 1992 yea

CORPS MISSOURI UNIT GETS NEW COMMANDEROMAHA, Neb. - The Army Corps of Engineers' Mis

Delta Air Lines chose a unit of Cigna Corp. to operate the health care center it is building in Atla

Coors Brewing Co. employees who had contributed to a company retirement plan will come up short with

A seafarers union has ended a two-day walkout on a vessel owned by a Philadelphia tanker operator, a

Missouri's insurance department has asked regional insurers to bid on running and assuming the finan

MOODY'S CUTS RATING OF XEROX LIFE UNITNEW YORK - Moody's has downgraded the insuranc

Delmond Won, a Hawaiian state regulator and maritime industry executive who won Senate approval last

HCC INSURANCE POSTS RISE IN NET INCOMEHOUSTON - Net income reported by HCC Insurance

INTEGON CORP. (Winston-Salem, N.C.) - Jim Porcari was named vice president of claims, succeeding Cha

The U.S.-flag Great Lakes bulk fleets are still trailing their 1993 volume after a weather-beaten sl

Finance Minister Masayoshi Takemura said Tuesday U.S.-Japan framework trade talks on insurance "have

Moody's Investors Service assigned ratings to the universal shelf registration of Orion Capital Corp

Continental Casualty Co. must pay a $746,592 judgment to the state in a dispute over insurance cover

Congress will face a number of unresolved issues, including trade, transportation and insurance meas

U.S. Commerce Secretary Ronald Brown Tuesday refused to predict whether enough progress would be mad

The Journal of Commerce will be 167 years old on Sept. 1. Those familiar with this newspaper