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McDonnell Douglas Corp. has notified customers that deliveries from its Long Beach aircraft plant wi

The chairman of the National Petroleum Council, an advisory group to the president and Congress mad

January 9, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon

Four years ago, the first sale of a crude oil futures contract threatened to set the oil industry on

The Maritime Administration has refused to reconsider a decision giving subsidized liner companies m

The price Ecuador receives for its crude oil reached $16 a barrel, the highest level since oil price

Prices of crude oil were quoted about 10 cents a barrel higher on the European spot market at the cl

A severe cold wave disrupted production at the Tyumen gas and oil fields in western Siberia and is t

An Indonesian Cabinet Minister says he expects oil prices to go above $18 a barrel soon if producers

Mexico Renews Pact For Oil Sales to IsraelMexico renewed its contract to sell 40,000 barrels

Venezuela denied that it has been approached officially by the United States to form a common energy

Differentials between cash and futures prices for crude oil, heating oil and gasoline widened signif

Burger King Installing Cogeneration SystemsAmerican Private Power Inc., a cogeneration proje

Western Canadian coal exporters are gearing up for further price and volume cuts when contracts with

Small property owners in the nation's inner cities are falling back on emergency insurance plans in

MBIA Inc. said it will close its first deal this week as a new municipal bond insurer. The d

A coalition of insurance industry interests have charged in a federal suit that inadequate rates wil

Australian Insurer To Sever S. African TiesJOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Colonial Mutual Life

The New York State Bar Association, in a letter last Friday to Gov. Mario Cuomo and state legislator

Miffed by a drop in their export quota to the United States, Australian sugar producers are agitatin

Mexico's annual inflation rate broke the triple-digit barrier for the first time in 1986, the centra

The Japanese trade surplus with China for last year is estimated at US$4 billion, down from the US$5

Maryland will receive $80.9 million for various water projects during the 1988 fiscal year, accordin

Faced with growing economic problems, Communist Yugoslavia plans to adopt constitutional changes op

Atlantic Xpress' Container Trader will be several days late in arriving in Charleston, S.C., but the

Horace Alston and Richard Hughes have been ousted as leaders of the Internation al Longshoremen's As

Greater confidentiality in service contracts with ocean carriers will be a major goal of shippers -

A Guinness family member said that he and his family don't want the embattled chairman and chief exe

Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., the giant British conglomerate, agreed to purchase the

Key economic development leaders in Washington state highlighted the state's growing ties with Pacif

A more market-oriented world agricultural trading system is a top Reagan administration priority in

The European Community's farm policy, initially designed to stabilize the agriculture market and gua

GENERAL NEWS Favorable economic data don't appease economists. Page 3AFINANCIALThe

One aspect of the farm industry that's likely to see continued change is the banking industry.

In an effort to maintain its world market share in agriculture, Canadian authorities are banking on

Tony Hawke grimaces when foreign visitors praise this southern African nation's productive farmers,

Australian trade officials are confident that agricultural commodities eventually will come under th

The prospects of an improved export picture for U.S. farmers is bleak, agriculture officials say, un

NEC Corp., a major Japanese electronics manufacturer, plans to commission South Korean and Taiwanese

Congress is starting to map out its trade legislation strategy. About 180 House members, ove