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Lloyd's of London said Thursday it has ruled out the need for an inquiry regarding hundreds of milli

Despite a later Easter selling season this year, some of the nation's big retailers Thursday reporte

Hoechst-Celanese Corp., based in Somerville, N.J., expects flat or slightly slower growth in 1990 be

Talks will resume next week in Geneva on reducing U.S. and Soviet stockpiles of chemical weapons, in

American President Lines has reached an agreement with the Port of Oakland to buy two Alliance crane

By a two-to-one margin, some 400 members of the United Maritime Officers Association have voted to m

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The Port of New York and New Jersey has reversed a steady decline in general cargo volume and has be

Plans by Pennsylvania to upgrade lines operated by the Delaware & Hudson Railway Co. within the stat

Olin Corp. said its Venezuelan joint venture Pralca signed contracts to build an 86,000 metric tons

Canadian hydropower plants would have to undergo environmental reviews comparable to those required

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission Thursday reissued a January 1989 ruling that clarifies its

Apr. 5, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Phillips 66 Co. will introduce a cleaner version of its "SuperClean Unleaded Plus"mid-grade unleaded

U.S. companies are becoming less competitive because of the threat that they may have to pay huge da

AMOCO TO RECYCLE USED MOTOR OIL IN ILL.Amoco Oil Co. started a motor oil recycling pilot pro

A major trade group's proposal to the Brazilian government on coffee export policy is heavily loaded

A group of leading ship management companies and the safety agencies that certify the seaworthiness

A former shipping executive was indicted Tuesday for mail fraud in connection with the delivery of a

FOREIGN AFFILIATES TO HIKE INVESTMENTMajority-owned foreign affiliates of U.S. companies pla

Japan must redouble its efforts to meet the objectives of a 1986 agreement on increasing the foreign

Thu., April 5, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

THERE'S STRENGTH TO HOG AND PORK BELLY PRICES beyond better fundamentals, analysts said. Whi

A two-tier earthquake insurance package was introduced to Congress Wednesday and assigned to the Hou

Acid rain legislation will prove a boon for Western coal producers but its devasting impact on the M

OPEC crude oil production in March rose by 200,000 barrels a day to a total of 23.7 million barrels,

STRIKERS, BIG HMO MEET WITH MEDIATORNegotiators for 11,000 striking hospital workers and the

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W. COAST OFFICIAL URGES MORE DREDGING FUNDSA West Coast maritime official called for an incr

Local business reaction to Britain's long-awaited proposals on Hong Kong people's right of abode was

Oil prices and rising environmental consciousness will direct intermodalism in the 1990s, a group of

FED UP WITH RISING RATES and unsatisfactory responses from ocean carrier conferences, toymakers form

Olaf von Maydell, who has headed the U.S. operation of West German shipping line Hapag-Lloyd AG for

The United States needs to loosen its antitrust laws to help domestic companies band together and pr

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The yen rose Thursday on rumors that the Group of 7 industrial nations will agree in Paris Saturday

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Scottish Lion Insurance does not generally compete with the H.S. Weavers agency and the Walbrook Ins

The level of domestic debt among Chinese commercial entities now exceeds US$20 billion, officials ac

Two constitutional amendments aimed at removing a protected tax status for insurance companies have