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Dow Chemical Co. has moved into the seed biotechnology market with the acquisition of United AgriSee

Union Carbide Denies Bhopal SettlementDANBURY, Conn. - Union Carbide Corp. has denied report

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

Two U.S. investors in Peru will be allowed to send home profits following a 14-month prohibition on

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

Top Stories The upheaval in the stock market has not affected operating strategies in the in

A committee of top medical experts in the state has been formed to develop medical guidelines to eva

A shocking" lack of medical data is leading doctors to perform common procedures on Medicare patient

Rapidly aging trucks will force the nation's food producers to spend heavily on new transportation e

NY Firm Sweetens CNW Takeover OfferA New York investment firm has amended its offer to buy o

Montana Rail Link Inc. paid Burlington Northern Railroad $27 million topurchase track, equip

The United States remains easily the largest overseas investor in Hong Kong, despite a surge in inve

A revised White House estimate of the scope and progress of the AIDS epidemic is likely to conclude

It's a bright clear Sunday afternoon near San Francisco Bay, and a crowd is gathered inside an old A

Oil Price Discounts May Be New StrategyOil price discounting by Persian Gulf producers is ra

The European Community and Canada Monday began two days of talks covering strained bilateral trade r

Any insurer that tries to buy its way out of Massachusetts' troubled auto insurance market should ta

The following index charts weekly changes in motor carrier tonnage originatingfrom 49 produc

Trucks are no longer the ugly ducklings of Detroit. Automakers who have seen their passenger

Towers Financial Corp. loosed another cannon in its continuing battle through the media to purchase

Eurotunnel, the Anglo-French consortium digging a tunnel under the English Channel, Monday set a pri

The drop in the dollar against the yen has whetted Japan's appetite for American high-tech companies

Output at the nation's factories, mines and utilities shot up 0.6 percent in October, the biggest in

AVIATION British Caledonian Airways will still seek a partnership with a foreign airline if

Mexico's 1988 federal budget, submitted formally to congressional review this week, projects a downt

The European Community Commission is moving against South Korea's Hyundai Merchant Marine in the com

Railroad labor's decision to strike the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway is clear proof that th

Brazilian exporters nervously awaited the list of products on which the United States will impose pu

The Middle East Economic Survey, a respected oil industry weekly reported Monday that a buildup of 2

Hubco Exploration Inc. made a field extension discovery in the Lake Fortuna field, St. Bernard Paris

Sequa Corp., formerly Sun Chemical Corp., reported third-quarter net income of $16.9 million, or $1.

Genentech Inc.'s bright future, illuminated by Friday's federal approval for tissue plasminogen acti

New Lloyd's of London Broking Group FormedA new insurance broking group that will have stron

The ocean shipping business here has been booming this year as U.S. buyers rush to beat price hikes

Good performance from rail, shipping and trucking operations contributed to improved results for Can

Thermo Process Unit Wins Soviet OrderWALTHAM, Mass. - Thermo Process Systems Inc. announced

The U.S. dollar rose sharply early Monday, but skidded off its session highs on market disappointmen

At the New York Mercantile Exchange, the trading pits really are the pits. Nymex Chairman Wi

CF AirFreight Names Teraoka VP, SalesPALO ALTO, Calif. - Thomas A. Teraoka was named vice pr

Budget negotiators came out of their Monday morning session with grim faces and few words of encoura