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MODERATE: THAT'S HOW THE CURRENT RATE of inflation, more than 5 percent a year, is described. That m

TOKYO STOCKS PLUNGE ON YEN'S WEAKNESSTokyo stocks closed sharply lower Monday in thin trade

CAPITAL ACCOUNT DEFICIT NARROWS IN GERMANYFRANKFURT, West Germany - West Germany posted a ca

JAPAN'S MITI DENIES PRESSURING CARMAKERSJapan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry

Motorists who drive without insurance may soon have to face the tale of the tape. The state

United Community Insurance Co., a subsidiary of the Lawrence Group, has filed a $42 million defamati

John T. Lynch was elected president of management consultant and reinsurance intermediary Towers Per

NOWHERE TO RUN, nowhere to hide: That's the position transportation companies will find themselves i

The Port of Baltimore's new high-technology container terminal, scheduled to open last summer but t

The Soviet Union is running out of tobacco to meet the rising demands of cigarette smokers, accordin

HOUSING COMPLETIONS ROSE 9 PERCENT IN JANUARYU.S. housing completions rose 9.2 percent in Ja

Argentina's debt will be marked down by about $1 billion by means of a new debt-equity conversion fu

ORDERS, OPTIONS DOUBLE FOR PRATT & WHITNEYEAST HARTFORD, Conn. - Orders and options for Prat

MOBIL, OMV SET DEAL FOR NORTH SEA FIELDMobil Corp. and OMV, the Austrian oil, natural gas an

Major truck lines are considering a 4 percent rate hike in early June, just six months after the las

The race to provide double-stack container service to Mexico is on in earnest, with two railroads pl

Right-O-Way Inc., an air freight forwarder, has established a road feeder service designed to genera

A Pennsylvania publisher plans to provide food for Soviet minds along with better-tasting sausage fo

U.S. polyethylene producers are optimistic that their planned April price hikes will stick despite s

The Pepper Commission's plan to guarantee Americans access to health care would have little effect o

HOW DO YOU HAUL garbage without everyone knowing it's garbage? That was a much debated quest

Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and city officials broke ground Monday on a critical truck access road in So

The calendar says 1990, but in regards to a new union dockworkers contract, the year is beginning to

Conterm Consolidation Services (U.S.A.) Inc., Los Angeles, has established a new gateway operation i

Cargo volume at the Port of Baltimore is projected to continue to decline this year and next, but su

One of three major improvements to the filing process occurred around the first of the year when Un

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of Commerce , U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, Room HCHB

Intercargo Corp., which underwrites U.S. Customs Bonds for forwarders and brokers, said its fourth q

The U.S. dollar rose Monday, particularly against the Japanese yen, sparking further dollar sales by

Toyota Motor Corp., Japan's largest automaker, said Monday it plans to build a huge proving ground n

Maxwell House Coffee Co. plans to close one of two roasting plants in either Hoboken, N.J., or Jacks

PERU OFFICIALS DECLARE COPPER STRIKE ILLEGALLIMA, Peru - The Tacna city office of Peru's Min

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European Community policies aimed at forcing foreign manufacturers to produce semiconductors inside

Mar. 12, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, founded 30 years ago, is at a turning point.<

A maritime brief on Page 3B of The Journal of Commerce March 12, headlined ''US Merchant Fleet Decli

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

Marine insurers are bracing themselves for a surge in claims from the exceptionally severe winter st

American Telephone & Telegraph Co. signed an agreement Monday to share a key technology used in maki