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EXCELLENT COTTON YIELD SEEN IN AUSTRALIASYDNEY, Australia - Australia's recently harvested b

Consolidated Freightways Inc., hurt by a slumping economy, a tough rate environment and continuing l

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. is shrinking its staff in Albuquerque, N.M. and Topeka, Ka

STRIKE PARALYZES UPS CANADA SERVICEOperations of United Parcel Service Canada Ltd. were para

Corn futures reached their daily limit in active, heavy trading Tuesday on concerns about the effect

U.S. officials are considering easing sanctions against Iraq to allow it to sell a limited amount of

International Business Machines Corp. plans to increase its investment in a Chinese joint venture an

July 23, 1991 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

The Mexican government has deregulated its domestic air cargo market, a move that experts say will l

The European Commission today is expected to approve the Belgium government's $1 billion aid packag

The Senate voted Tuesday to demand still more policy reforms by China in return for keeping its acce

China's central bank is bracing for intense pressure on resources to bail out defaulting companies a

Amid the swamps of the Pacaya-Samiria Reserve, the largest park along Peru's Amazon, dolphins and ma

A U.S. coal producer's decision to ship low-sulfur Western coal through the St. Lawrence Seaway to E

A plan espoused by European Community Agricultural Commissioner Ray MacSharry is not the right means

Summer crop harvests, already started in many areas of China, are expected to be good despite devast

International Petroleum Exchange July 23, 1991Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Monday July 22, 1991 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

The first Ibero-American summit conference ended here last week with the signature of a 10-page join

Industrywide bargaining between railroads and unions could be a casualty in the wakeof a special gov

Moves by Citicorp and Chase Manhattan Bank to break into the energy futures business are likely the

TO THE UNITED STATES/CANADA BANGLADESH. Early September. Washington, San Francisco and New O

The bitter dispute in one of the nation's largest maritime unions took another wild turn Friday when

Given adequate credit, the U.S.S.R. could import "in excess of 40 million (metric) tons" of grain th

July 22, 1991 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

Mon., July 22, 1991 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

A surge in overseas investment in Indonesian industry will translate into growth in the container sh

Britain and the United States were at loggerheads Monday after Washington blocked a multimillion-do

WHERE THE JOYS are - that's where Jay Farquhar says he went. Mr. Farquhar was director of in

There's a turf war going on in the San Francisco Bay area over the material dredged up from the bott

The Journal of Commerce has been selected to receive an award from the Women's Economic Round Table

July 22, 1991 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

RADIO HOLLAND GROUP WINS MARINE CONTRACTKIEL, Germany - Honeywell-ELAC-Nautik GmbH, a manufa

The latest diplomatic moves to end the Arab boycott of Israel may offer the best chancein years to l

AIRBORNE FREIGHT POSTS SLIGHT FALL IN EARNINGSCiting the recession, Airborne Freight Corp.,

Trans World Airlines Inc., owned by investor Carl Icahn, bid Monday to take over bankrupt Pan Am Cor

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service AgEx

FOOTWEAR Leather shoes. Contact Societe de l'Industrie Nationale de la Chaussure, Burkina Fa

A proposed North American free-trade area should be broader and deeper than the existingU.S.-Canada

Foreign direct investment will be a dominant force in shaping global economic trends in the 1990s, a