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The Senate Agriculture Committee Thursday approved grain-quality legislation after making several ch

The requirement for Congress to trim $800 million from the 1991 commodity program budget means farme

Jan. B. Kay resigned her position as senior vice president planning and development of the New York

Sugar prices were lower Thursday in response to news that the Soviet Union denied buying sugar on th

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France's financial and commodities futures exchange, Matif SA, is taking 28 percent of the shares of

US FARM GROUPS URGED TO BE ACTIVE IN EUROPEU.S. farm groups should take a more aggressive ro

Selection of the site for a combined trading floor for New York's commodity exchanges could be made

The passenger ship Monterey, subject of a recent congressional debate over whether it should be allo

In just four years, China has surged to become the second-largest supplier of military hardware to T

U.S. business executives are worried that the United States will halt progress toward more favorable

United Airlines said it has received authority from the National Transportation Agency of Canada to

U.S. NAVAL INSTITUTE. April 20. New London, Conn. Seminar: "DOD Enters theDrug War: Can It M

The U.S. dollar was mostly higher Thursday, except against the yen, which extended its technical ral

INVOICE RULE. Effective May 3, 1990, imports will be required to provide on commercial invoices the

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

CHINA REPORTS RISE IN URBAN JOBLESS RATEChina's urban unemployment rate rose to 2.6 percent

HIGHER JAPAN RATES HELD HARMFUL TO USHigher interest rates in Japan would slow its economy a

The recent sharp fall in value of the Japanese yen is a cause for concernbecause it might ha

Thu, Apr. 19, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

The U.S. bond market may be witnessing a glimmer of what it has long feared - the big Japanese sell-

Foreign banks are lending record amounts in Japan to fill the breach caused by Bank of Japan restric

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SANTA FE PACIFIC CORP. REPORTS QUARTERLY LOSSSanta Fe Pacific Corp. Thursday reported a firs

New claims for state unemployment insurance benefits were made by 371,000 people during the week end

The United Nations goal to establish adequate housing worldwide by the year 2000 is one of several p

Some lines of type were dropped from the Publisher's Notebook column in The Journal of Commerce of W

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

There may be a plastic car in your future. But not if the steel industry has its way. Since

1436 (Apr. 19, 1990) Previous day - 1444 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Santa Fe Pacific Corp. said Thursday it reached an out-of-court settlement with plaintiffs in a laws

A contract agreement covering work at Japanese ports has been reached, ending the possibility of a d

MANDATING MINIMUM STANDARDS is not the way to alleviate the plight of ailing truckers, shippers say.

President Carlos Menem says he's determined to go through with his planned privatization of the anti

Faster than a speedy Congress, more powerful than an Earth Day rally, market forces and the fear of

Truckers could run heavyweight, triple-trailer loads across the nation's midsection if a direct Chic

CF MOTOR FREIGHT (Palo Alto, Calif.) - Gary M. Keenan, former director of operations planning and qu

The Port of Oakland has sent a senior delegation to the Far East to meet with shipping clients and p

Can a small but prosperous New England upstart find happiness with a dowager who has fallen on hard

''We can't do that" was the initial reaction of Doug Thomas, Airborne Express' Washington, D.C., dis