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Oil prices surged by 75 cents a barrel in heavy European trading Wednesday, as the market detected a

French Buy Saudi Oil At Official OPEC PriceFrench oil companies Elf Aquitaine and Total CFP

Akzo Chemie to Hike Trigonox A-W70 PriceAkzo Chemie America, Noury Chemicals announced it is

The Long Island Lighting Co. is not worried by a suit Suffolk County filed seeking $8.7 billion in d

Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige deplored Japan's apparent reluctance to buy U.S. supercomputers,

Air cargo statistics for November show strong growth in domestic tonnage with a 26.1 percent increas

A class-action lawsuit (87-ch-02033) was filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Chancery Divisio

The Dutch government is expected to carry out its threat to stop subsidies of surplus dockers after

The search for the Hanjin Incheon is officially called off, but shippers remain puzzled about how a

Syndicates in the troubled Insurance Exchange of the Americas in Miami might not resume underwriting

A potent lobbying effort on behalf of the elderly, led by Rep. Claude Pepper, D-Fla., is pushing the

The Senate Merchant Marine Subcommittee remains without a chairman. Sen. John Breaux, D-La.,

Japan Awards Victims Of US Military CrashThe Yokohama District Court ordered the Japanese go

A New Jersey congressman has called for the Legislature to investigate why the state doesn't use a m

A large percentage of Japanese investment capital has moved into the domestic stock and bond markets

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

Kuwait has moved deeper into the British downstream oil market by acquiring 500 gasoline stations fr

IOA Re appointed John W. Parker Jr. president, a new position at this reinsurance underwriting manag

The battle for control of San Miguel Corp., the largestindustrial corporation in the Philippines, en

Japan and the United States will start trade talks in Geneva shortly on a U.S. request to lift Japan

Itel Agrees to Purchase Flexi-Van Fleet, AssetsItel Corp. has entered into a formal agreemen

The Franco-Italian 42-50 seat twin-turboprop commuter airliner, the ATR-42, is making a major impact

The Conrail engineer whose locomotive caused the fatal Amtrak crash Jan. 4 has been admitted to a ps

The airmail package from Australia was labeled camera lens" - but when a U.S. Customs inspector open

European Community farm ministers Wednesday agreed to allow the ECCommission, under certain

Although the Agriculture Department has kept its 1986-87 U.S. (September- August ) corn export forec

The U.S. dollar moved toward the high end of its recent trading range Wednesday in light activity.

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

There is little concern among Britain's banks that Brazil's deterioratingfinancial position

The Soviet Union is likely to step up its borrowings in the international capital markets over the n

Midwest Exchange To Trade OTC StocksCHICAGO - The Midwest Stock Exchange will become the fir

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

Supplies of distillate oil declined, while gasoline inventories were unchanged, according to the Ame

North Korea denounced South Korea's project to construct a massive dam near the demilitarized zone,

A Treasury Department official cited considerable progress toward improving the economic prospects o

New US-EC Rifts? WASHINGTON - More potential trade policy disputes threaten U.S.-European Co

U.S. business failures in January increased 0.5 percent to 5,614 from 5,586 a year ago, according to

Court Rules Against Northrop in Saudi CaseA company controlled by arms dealer Adnan Khashogg

The chairman of the House Commerce Committee has agreed to plunge ahead this spring with hearings on

Venezuela and its major commercial bank creditors have agreed to allow the conversion into shares of