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Grain Price Floor Seen As Part of GATT TalksThe European Community proposes that major grain

THE WORLD CHANGED last week. Make no mistake about it, the stock market crash was much more

1168.5 (Oct. 29) Previous day - 1158.0 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

Matson Navigation Co. said it will spend $26 million to expand its container inventory this year.

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is grappling with a mid-life crisis as it prepares to mar

The clamor for a weekly column by the publisher of The Journal of Commerce has reached deafening pro

The new Norwegian International Ships Registry now boasts a membership of 83 vessels, representing a

A Virginia Power fuel official said Virginia companies striving to fill a larger share of his utilit

Duquesne Light Co.'s overall electricity sales grew 21.2 percent in the third quarter, driven largel

Consumers Power Co. said that the economically priced natural gas it delivers, but doesn't own, is c

A cab driver recently expressed the concern of many who work for a living in Houston. "They tell us

Braniff Inc. said it reached agreement to merge with Florida Express Inc. The agreement in p

Officials of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad continued meeting Thursday with the line's lawyers

The second of Hong Kong's wounded maritime giants, Wah Kwong Shipping Group Ltd., has clawed its way

Japanese automobile manufacturers should cut by 600,000 their auto exports to the United States or r

The headline appearing on the Buying In column on Page 5A on Thursday, Oct. 29, should have read Buy

Japanese Steel Exports Fell 19 percent in QuarterJapanese steel exports declined 19 percent

Responsibility for the collapse on Wall Street and subsequent nose dives in world share prices lies

Students leaving the work force to return to school helped push New York state's unemployment rate u

Sophisticated application of hedging techniques is likely to minimize the impact of the dollar's slu

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Massachusetts health insurers are again worried that the state may compete with private group insure

TALK ABOUT TALKING 'til you're blue in the face. At an all-media panel on Monday dissecting

Sales of Lime Remain StableThe sales and consumption of lime by a composite of 94 U.S. produ

The president and chief executive of Sea-Land Service Inc. said the first step to revive the commerc

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

Two nuclear insurance pools have revised their liability insurance programs so that liability claims

Lawyers Wednesday filed the first suit stemming from the deadly collapse of the L'Ambiance Plaza pro

Dow Chemical Co.'s Dutch subsidiary has lost a legal battle to suspend an investigation by the Europ

Francis J. Ivancie has agreed that the Federal Maritime Commission, on which he serves, will have to

Views Still Accepted On Hawaiian Sub PlanThe Maritime Administration has extended until Nov.

An advanced flame-retardant system has been designed by Glomart Ltd. of Britain. The system,

Mexican Trade Surplus Up 165 percent in 9 MonthsMexico accumulated a US$6.24 billion trade s

Legislation Proposed To Cut Discount RateSen. John Heinz, R-Pa., proposed legislation Thursd

Insurers of stockbrokers are keeping their mouths closed and their umbrellas up as they await the fa

The U.S. dollar declined broadly Thursday, hitting a postwar low against the Japanese yen, despite t

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

Stocks rose sharply in a broad-based advance Thursday, as the feeling spread that the worst has pass

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

The drop in the dollar alone will not be sufficient to reduce the U.S. trade deficit substantially,