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News Thursday that the Soviet Union had requested a 12-month credit extension on some of its cocoa p

The $16.3 billion project in Hong Kong to build a new airport, expanded container port, harbor cross

In the first quarter of 1990, California's exports continued to outpace those of the nation as a who

Oil reserves were found off the northern coast of Angola, the Angop news agency reported Friday, quo

AMERICAN BUREAU OF SHIPPING (Paramus, N.J.) - Chryson Sariyanidis was appointed Mediterranean region

Several multi-line insurers are proceeding with plans to trim the fat from their operations by focus

Developing Asian nations must take measures now to boost competitiveness if they wish to protect or

WINGFIELD RECEIVES C. ALVIN BERTEL AWARDSusan Wingfield, Mississippi Valley Coal Exporters C

High-tech communications technologies have allowed major shippers to reduce sharply their use of fre

ConAgra Inc. agreed to help manage Soviet poultry and hog operations, the company announced Friday.<

John Kerin, primary industries minister, said the government will review the wool industry's pricing

Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Ltd., after being rescued by its main competitor, has its eye on expansion

June 1, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Japanese life insurance companies have asked the Ministry of Finance for permission to create bankin

A second summit is taking place in Moscow as lawyers from around the world meet today to discuss rad

The only European car manufacturer to boost sales in the United States last year was Volvo AB, and t

The Soviet Union is submitting its currency legislation to the International Monetary Fund and has c

The last few weeks for Missouri River barge operators gave new weight to a favorite expression here:

Unemployment in May slipped back to 5.3 percent after a 5.4 percent rate the previous month as facto

* Gordon Platt - Currency Forecast 3A * JofC Industrial Price Index 6A* Barry Parker - Freig

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

A new U.S.-based company fostering U.S.-East European trade and investment opened its first East Eur

EAST GERMANY TO LIFT BERLIN BORDER CONTROLSEast Germany said Friday it would end all border

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Japan appears ready to argue that it should keep a large trade surplus to finance Eastern European e

DUBAI FUTURES TO OFFER HEDGING OPPORTUNITIESThe new Dubai crude oil futures contract, soon t

The European Community wants greater involvement by European oil companies in exploration and produc

The breakaway Baltic nation of Lithuania is desperately trying to figure a way out of its severe ene

Continued strength in the price of raw cotton helped push The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price I

As George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev discussed the future role of the Soviet Union in the world trad

A steep decline in dry cargo freight rates over the past couple of months and an early start to the

THE SLUGGISH ECONOMY is no surprise to anyone who follows the weekly railroad freight data.

A growing number of cities are secretly videotaping municipal employees on workers' compensation fix

Three former executives at Chicago-based CNA Insurance Cos. are forming an insurance consulting busi

Currency traders expect the dollar to rise against the deutsche mark and decline vs. the yen, a reve

GOLD-DOLLAR SWAPS BY SOVIETS REPORTEDThe Soviet Union has signed deals with some Western fin

"It's lean business here," says John Frisbie of the U.S.-China Business Council, one year after Chin

Managers of the Port of Trieste know they will never recapture the halcyon days of the 19th century,

West German cocoa imports rose 355 metric tons to 23,800 tons in March from February and rose 786 to

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