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Two environmental groups have gone to court to block a port of Oakland airport expansion, charging t

The administration of Australia's civil airways services is to be changed. In a bid to cut c

The Federal Aviation Administration has taken the first steps toward replacing and improving a key p

The U.S. dollar turned lower against most major foreign currencies around midday Monday after moving

Eastern Rejects Union Coalition's BidEastern Airlines said its board declined to give furthe

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

A rally led by blue-chip stocks pushed the Dow Jones average of 30 industrials above the 1900 level

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

Information is one of the most valuable assets on Wall Street and observers like James Lorie, a prof

Fed May Allow Banks To Invest in Real EstateWASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve proposed allowi

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

Monday, Nov. 24, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The feasibility of 24-hour global trading in gold futures - or otherfinancial instruments -

An avalanche of private lawsuits seems to be in the making in the Ivan Boesky insider trading scanda

A growing trend among major railroads is to spin off unprofitable branches to short lines that revi

Fruehauf to Offer Debt SecuritiesFruehauf Holdings Inc. filed with the Securities and Exchan

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

Gorbachev in India MOSCOW - Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev left Moscow for a visit to In

Trucking analysts believe a dissident Leaseway Transportation Corp. shareholder will have trouble pr

Railroad traffic should remain flat overall next year although slow growth is expected for some comm

The West German economy will grow at a real, price-adjusted rate of 2.5 percent in the course of 198

Third Rhine Spill AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The third major chemical spill in the Rhine river

Italy, Britain and Greece got the biggest shares of the 2.5 billion European Currency Units (about $

Brazil's October trade figures were the worst in four years, constituting a serious setback in Braz

The government of Malaysia appears to be following the lead of equally hard- pressed neighbor Indone

Black labor leaders still favor U.S. corporate disinvestment from South Africa, but they are concern

McLean Industries Inc. and two of its subsidiaries, United States Lines Inc. and United States Lines

Volkswagen and Ford confirmed here the formation of a $4.5 billion international joint venture holdi

The Pacific Rim remains an attractive and growing trading partner for the West Coast, but each natio

Industrial production was up 26.9 percent for the first 10 months of the year for foreign joint-vent

Company Agrees to Buy Unisys Corp. OperationsA company formed by New York-based Clayton & Du

China wants more foreign investment in industries that could be expected to earn foreign exchange.

Nearly three quarters of the world's 889 million illiterates live in Asia, and nations in the area

Northern Air AnnouncesNew PositionNorthern Air Freight Inc. named John S. Diefendorf

Canadian exporters of softwood lumber are upset about the latest attempt by Canada's government to a

The harshness of Brasilia's new adjustments to its nine-month-old economic stabilization plan, as we

European Community foreign ministers Monday indicated they want to prevent a flood of petrochemical

Sears in Agreement CHICAGO - Sears, Roebuck and Co. and Hagemeyer NV, a general trading comp

BANKINGSouth African business executives term Barclays Bank's pullout from South Africa a se

The tone of the Uruguay round of multilateral trade talks will be determined by trading nations' wi