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Heavy truck sales sank to a five-year low last month in one of the clearest signs yet of the nation'

The U.S. court of appeals here said the secretary of transportation acted properly in approving the

Canadian exporters are counting on capturing as much as US$10 billion in business from the reconstru

The European Commission this week admitted that its proposed reform of the Common Agricultural Polic

An explosion early Tuesday morning at Union Carbide Corp.'s Seadrift, Texas, petrochemical complex k

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

Maritime fraud investigators are hailing the successful conviction this week of the central figure i

Keppel Corp. recorded a significant jump in pretax profit in the year through last Dec. 31, despite

Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Doug Green admitted this week that he never actually performed any

The United States came under a barrage of criticism Tuesday for unfair imposition of countervailing

Tue., March 12, 1991 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

There is a certain air of flamboyancy about Christopher J. Rankin, chief executive for North America

Mar. 12, 1991 Copper Total, 16,172. Gold Total, .1,511,848.Silver Total, .263,058,816.

COMAIR Comair Holdings Inc., parent of Comair Inc., flew 30.7 million revenue passenger mile

Employer groups are gearing up to fight a labor-sponsored bill that would more than double federal u

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TRADING ALLIANCE CORP., a New York-based trade finance merchant bank, said the government of Hungary

Container manufacturers in Southeast Asia say they have orders booked solid through June, but beyond

INFONET MODIFIES NEW ZEALAND NETWORKEL SEGUNDO, Calif. - Infonet Corp. has modified its elec

If 1990 was a year of dwindling profits for the United States' $185 billion forest products industry

Officials from Japan's Agriculture Ministry angrily demanded Tuesday that U.S. trade officials remov

As world tin stocks remain high and prices low, Indonesia's state-owned producer is proposing massiv

1771 (Mar. 12, 1991) Previous day - 1763 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Up, up and away. That's where employee-benefit costs are headed. And to battle those rising

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The Interstate Commerce Commission voted Tuesday to remove remaining government regulation from lumb

Proposed road improvements at two major airports and at a huge marine terminal complex would be cut

Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd., the colony's largest, posted a 35 percent drop in profit for

Undercharges will again be a lively topic at this year's annual spring meeting of Nasstrac, the Nati

Soybean futures settled narrowly mixed and little changed from Monday, bouncing from session lows bu

The information accompanying the photograph headlined "All Aboard!" in The Journal of Commerce, Marc

The Federal Reserve must keep its supervisory authority over the largest U.S. banks, Fed Gov. John L

Surety companies are awaiting a court decision that defines their right to avoid the prior approval

Proposals to build passenger and cargo traffic at languishing Kansas City International Airport have

It will take from four to 21 days to extinguish the fires at each of the hundreds of burning oil wel

Moving to fill one of the hot job markets of the 1990s, a Texas company has announced it will open a

GASOIL SUPPLIERS CUT PRICE OFFERS TO INDIAThe sellers of gasoil to the Indian Oil Co. revise

The number of rigs drilling for oil and gas in the United States fell by one last week to 948, comp

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Mar. 12, 1991 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid- Prem