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The U.S. dollar traded lower against most foreign currencies except for the Japanese yen, which move

THE CHICKENS at last are coming home to roost. The budget deficit, which the public adamantly refuse

Another large steamship line with its Pacific Northwest service based in Seattle is being courted by

With first-quarter profit more than double last year and its stock prices near its all-time high, Ai

Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, warned the Bush administration Tuesday that failure to designate Japan

COURT REINSTATES SUIT AGAINST CONRAILConsolidated Rail Corp.'s freight rate policies appear

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Santa Fe Pacific Corp. plans to split into three separate companies, stockholders at the company's a

Nearly half of the nation's interstate highways are in "barely tolerable or worse condition," the Ge

Nigeria may be forced to suspend its ban on cocoa bean exports, which is due to take effect from Jan

Output from China's plastics processing sector this year is expected to be about the same as in 1988

Cocoa prices were moderately lower Tuesday after the actively traded July futures contract dropped b

US WOULD CONSIDER FOOD AID TO LITHUANIAThe U.S. government would weigh emergency food aid to

Karel Van Miert, European commissioner for consumer affairs, said Monday that consumers should be pr

NORTH AMERICA Caribbean Expo 90. April 27-May 6. Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Contact

Apr. 24, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

FRANCE'S TRADE DEFICIT NARROWED LAST MONTHFrance registered a seasonally adjusted merchandis

NORSK HYDRO AGREES TO DEVELOP SOVIET FIELDNorway's Norsk Hydro group Monday signed a contrac

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

Preliminary national budget statistics for fiscal 1989 suggest that Japan's already massive public d

Ten companies are seeking licenses from the Federal Maritime Commission to operate as ocean freight

Norton Lilly International Inc., a steamship agent, is based in Secaucus, N.J. The company's headqua

EXECUTIVE EGOS may keep railroads from effectively using the paperless trading technology ofthe futu

JAPANESE CAN ORDER NY GOODS IN THE MAILJapanese who haven't the energy to go to New York can

CARGILL EYES SETUP OF JAPAN OJ FACILITYCargill North Asia Ltd., a Japanese unit of Minneapol

The Bush administration is backing a proposal for the Securities and ExchangeCommission, whi

Monsanto Co. and Dow Chemical Co. Tuesday reported lower first-quarter earnings, as the companies fe

MC Shipping Inc. declared a dividend of 45 cents a share for the quarter ended March 31. "Th

The U.S. Energy Department is creating a new export office to help expand international sales of oil

For Link America, one of the air cargo industry's largest road feeder operations, its first decade h

West German chemical concern Bayer Tuesday reported post-tax profit of 2.12 billion Deutsche marks (

The New York Commodities Exchange Inc. announced that it will raise the spot April margin requireme

Japan's vice-minister of finance for international affairs, Makoto Utsumi, spoke favorably Tuesday a

The Port of Portland said it is planning to build a $1.7 million, 100,000- square-foot general cargo

It is tough to find anyone who is pleased with the government's study and assessment of natural reso

The multibillion-dollar effort to overhaul the air traffic control network has become mired in delay

Ten Consolidated Rail Corp. boxcars of unwanted New York garbage sitting in aCSX Transportat

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There's a run on legal pads, ball-point pens and blank audio tape today. That's because 64 H

A state Insurance Department official on Tuesday defended the agency against allegations of possible