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Credit insurers are closely watching the fallout from U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's new po

One of Canada's biggest battery makers has just launched North America's first 100 percent mercury-f

Some insurance consultants call it "gaposis" - the gaps in policies that may eliminate the very cove

A federal judge levied a $115.5 million penalty against officers of the collapsed Champion Insurance

COCOA PRODUCERS AGREE TO REDUCE PRODUCTIONACCRA, Ghana - The world's leading cocoa growers,

PAN AM LOSSES CONTINUE TO MOUNTPan Am Corp. lost $190.7 million in the first quarter. The Ne

Volkswagen AG, Europe's largest carmaker, releases 1989 group figures this week that probably will

Brooklyn beer is raising heads in Japan. For the past four months, Brooklyn Brewery Ltd. has

The Group of 7 major industrial nations has succeeded, perhaps in spite of itself, in stabilizing ex

U.S. natural gas producers asked Congress to block a plan to import major quantities of natural gas

The Grand Trunk Western Railroad and the United Transportation Union have reached an agreement that

NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE AUTHORITY (East Brunswick, N.J.) - Donald L. Watson was named executive director

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JOBLESS RATE FALLS IN W. GERMANY AGAINNUREMBERG, West Germany - The number of people out of

A section of Proposition 103 which allows banks in California to sell insurance has created a new ec

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index moved slightly higher during last week reflecting sta

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The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

3Com Corp. started shipping to Japan in late April its Japanese-language software designed to link g

U.S.A. Tecmarine Inc. this month will double its sailing frequency by adding a second containership

PA. PANEL TO CONSIDER BILL TO AID PORTIncreasing commerce through the Port of Philadelphia w

FACTORY LAYOFFS PUSH JOBLESS RATE HIGHERFactory layoffs helped push up unemployment in April

The Tennessee Valley Authority said it awarded seven spot coal contracts covering deliveries to four

The London Metal Exchange expects to have two U.S. warehouses up and running by the end of the year,

SODIUM ALUMINUM SULFATE General Chemical Corp. is increasing the schedule price of sodium al

MAGNETIC LEVITATION and electric automobiles have something in common. Both seem to get trot

Michael Hagan is executive vice president of American Commercial Barge Line Inc. His full name and

WASHINGTON - For the week ended April 28, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's majorrailro

A study by the San Francisco Estuary Project on dredging problems in the San Francisco Bay finds tha

FREIGHT FUTURES PRICES traded in a sideways range for most of last week, as holidays in shipping cen

Indiana industry pumped 212 million pounds of toxic chemicals into the air, land and water in 1988,

American Electric Power Service Corp., Lancaster, Ohio, announced that Valley Camp CoalCo., Oil City

US SELLS 600,000 TONS TO SOVIET UNIONThe U.S. Department of Agriculture Friday said private

HOUSE PANEL APPROVES CURBS ON LOG EXPORTSEfforts to restrict further log exports from govern

The United States may miss out on a trillion-dollar market for 12 "emerging technologies" without bo

Atlantic Container Line virtually broke even in this year's first quarter, for a dramatic improvemen

May 4, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Mexican manufacturers of cloth and yarns are unhappy with a renegotiated Mexican-U.S. textile pact t

New refinery units in Kuwait and Iran are changing the balance of supply and demand for residual fue

The major chlorine industry lobbying group, the Chlorine Institute, is concerned that recent Environ