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Indonesia's transformation from the world's biggest rice importer to a surplus producer has created

The 41,578-deadweight-ton U.S.-flag barge carrier Stonewall Jackson, en route Aqaba for Hampton Road

Uniroyal Chemical Co. and Enichem Elastomeri SpA (a subsidiary of Enichem SpA) announced an agreemen

Executives from the longshoremen's union representing major ports in eastern Canada will gather in M

The American quality of life is heavily dependent on a healthy industrial infrastructure, said a top

Caltex to Give S. Korea Control of Oil RefinerySEOUL, South Korea - Caltex, which owns 50 pe

Monsanto Chemical Co. and FMC Corp. have filed anti-dumping and countervailing duty petitions with t

Combustion Engineering Inc. was awarded a $115 million contract by the Arizona Nuclear Power Project

Electric companies didn't give the United States nuclear power. Government research gave the techno

King Fahd of Saudi Arabia indicated his desert kingdom was not willing to reduce its OPEC-decreed oi

Pengo Industries Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, said it completed the sale of its oil tool division assets

Iran's oil exports fell 20 percent last week because of bad weather, an authoritative weekly economi

Retail gasoline prices dipped about a third of a cent over the past two weeks despite rising wholesa

Low crude oil prices, will not last, and the United States should brace itself for an "oil price sho

Snamprogetti, the petroleum engineering company belonging to ENI, the Italian state energy group, wa

An Interior Department draft study recommended that the oil-rich Coastal Plain of northeastern Alask

Fluor Unit to Build Cogeneration PlantIRVINE, Calif. - A unit of Fluor Corp. said it has bee

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 $