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A sharp decline in sales in the West helped cause sales of new single-family homes in the United Sta

Foreign investors hit a winning streak when they put their money into Polish gambling, but now their

A four-year search for a buyer to purchase a historic but dormant Southern California shipyard came

Too many unsafe oil tankers continue to enter U.S. waters despite industry claims that it has improv

The European Commission and Austria were racing Wednesday to meet a midnight deadline to settle a ro

Preventing Undercharge Claims and Contracting With Motor Carriers, seminar sponsored by Transportati

In a case that illustrates how important a coming Supreme Court case might be, the Interstate Commer

The air freight industry responded cautiously Wednesday to American Airlines' announcement that it w

AIR CARRIER EXECUTIVES TO MEET ON BA BIDWASHINGTON - Chief executives of four leadin

A new world cotton futures contract, to begin trading today at the New York Cotton Exchange, is expe

New York Mercantile Exchange Sept. 29, 1992CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cent

China's renewed enthusiasm for all-out economic reform, which triggered a new avalanche of foreign i

Michigan drivers will pay $118.69 per vehicle for catastrophic injury insurance in 1993 - $8 more th

Municipal Mutual Insurance, Britain's ninth largest in surer, ceased underwriting Wednes day, leavin

The German Bundesbank is expected to hold interest rates unchanged at a meeting on Friday, ignoring

Transportation Secretary Andrew H. Card Jr. urged Congress to break the funding logjam and "grab the

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,200-$1,300per ton lots &

SHOWA DENKO TO AID INDONESIA PLANT PROJECTJapan's Showa Denko will participate in a joint pr

The nation's largest truck lines reported substantial increases in revenue, earnings and traffic vol

Blown off course by the winds of recession, the pleasure-craft electronics industry has run aground,

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China's sweeping move to give foreign investors lower tax rates and other preferential treatment in

In between pointing out the flaws and shortcomings of the proposed North American free-trade agreeme

The State of Virginia approved a rehabilitation plan for troubled Fidelity Bankers Life Insurance Co

Canada's seasonally adjusted gross domestic product remained unchanged in July at C$501.8 billion (U

China is fond of reminding people it has been around for 5,000 years. But only slowly isevidence eme

China and South Korea Wednesday signed four commercial agreements, the first fruits of a resumption

CENTRAL AMERICA NATIONS TO DISCUSS CUSTOMS PACTSAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Central American treas

The Brazilian corruption scandal threatening to bring down the government of President Fernando Coll

American equipment companies are increasingly investigating the idea of cooperative ventures to meet

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) Sept. 30, 1992Bid AskedCopper_

A shortfall in South African sugar exports next crop year is sending traditional buyers into the arm

While retrenchment is likely to cool China's racing economy next year, 10 percent growth for this de

The term "geographic deviation" as it relates to shipping was originally used by marine cargo insure

Economic policies to be followed by the soon-to-be installed administration of Brazilian Vice Presid

International Petroleum Exchange Sept. 30, 1992Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Dozens of worried customers of Northern Minnesota Utilities have called the company's Cloquet office

Port facilities in this northern city will be expanded to a capacity of 100 million metric tons by t

A U.S. trade agency said that if Quebec seceded from Canada, it could be excluded from the existing

Hong Kong will impose tighter legal restrictions and step up spot checks to combat fraudulent textil