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The current wheat crop in Australia will yield a harvest some 20 percent below last year's.

The people who use and pay for Australian ports should be more vocal in demanding improvements, says

Bad-debt losses by banks and other farm lenders remain high but are declining as farmers cut expense

Father Stefan, striding up the path in his hooded Benedictine cassock, at this moment is between a b

MasterCard International Inc. said it was holding more talks with Cirrus Systems Inc. to buy the nat

Northwest Airlines, the Minneapolis-based carrier whose MD-80 was involved in a fiery crash earlier

The Labor Department granted two major life insurance companies permission to invest both pension fu

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

Lloyd's Searches For Missing GoldST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Lloyd's of London is searching for a

The Republican chairman of the state Senate Insurance Committee says Gov. Mario Cuomo's insurance su

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, credited with opening the door to selling insurance in Eastern Euro

Annual rates charged by insurers who cover 80 percent of New Jersey's motorists will go up by approx

Massachusetts Automobile insurers say they're on the brink of collapse due to what they claim are un

Scientists reported this week that AIDS appears to lie dormant an average of eight years in adults w

The U.S. dollar rebounded Thursday afternoon following four days of declines that drove it to a seve

A new instrument to measure radon levels in buildings, soil and air has been introduced in Sweden by

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

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

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is rethinking the bounds of regulation to accommodate th

After three days of sell orders, foreign exchange dealers here remain bearish on the U.S. dollar, an

Stock Prices Soar To Record HighStock prices rose sharply Thursday, with the Dow Jones avera

Thu., Aug. 20, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Thursday marked six months since Brazil suspended payments on $68 billion worth of debts and could o

The Brazilian government is close to approving rules for conversion of portions of its foreign debt

AVIATION Investigators now believe that the engines that powered ill-fated Northwest Airline

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

An official of Mack Trucks Inc. said the company was considering higher employment levels and produc

A New Orleans stevedore that uses Teamsters labor won approval to work a public wharf on the riverfr

1129.0 (Aug. 19) Previous day - 1128.5 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

Continued freight rate discounting sent second quarter profits plummeting for both national and regi

Rate Bureaus Propose Mid-October IncreasesTwo major trucking industry rate bureaus proposed

Aug. 19 Baltic International Freight Futures ExchangePrev.Close High Low

There was a loud knock at the door at Navistar International Corp. last month. It was the so

The West German operator Senator Line has reduced the transit time of its round-the-world service by

Waterman Steamship Corp. wants Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole to bar subsidized lin

Some 200 union workers at General Ship Corp. struck Wednesday in a dispute over a job classification

An unusual and expensive salvage job was recently completed off the coast of Brazil when a tug and b

A letter of intent that would return shipbuilding and repair work to the Brooklyn Navy Yard is expec

The port of Charleston has become the first South Atlantic port to handle more than 4 million tons o

Still another trucking group has urged the Federal Maritime Commission to require ocean carriers to