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European rapeseed oil has started to trickle into the United States, apparently at prices below comp

The biotechnology industry and at least one congressman say the government should make it easier to

The Federal Maritime Commission has ruled in favor of Deppe Linie GmbH & Co. in a dispute over a cus

A top European Community official sought to ease U.S. fears Wednesday over its plan for a single ban

NEC Corp. fell in line with the industry trend and government pressure Wednesday, announcing a semic

The air freight industry is asking the federal government to use its new national transportation pol

The Trump Shuttle made less noise than usual here Wednesday with its announcement that it is the fir

Southern Co. said that overall kilowatt-hour electric sales rose 2.3 percent in January compared wit

Primary inventories of gasoline increased while distillate fuel stocks fell, the American Petroleum

Amoco Chemical Co. announced Wednesday it will construct a new 300 million pounds-a-year polypropyle

LIFFE TO REDESIGN JAPANESE CONTRACTThe London International Financial Futures Exchange said

CHINA MAY PROMOTE REFORMIST IN SHAKE-UPThe reformist governor of China's most prosperous pro

Privatization, a buzzword promising to breathe new life into ailing Italian industries ranging from

A top official of Southern Pacific Transportation Co. has fired a thundering broadside at some compe

Xtra Corp. said Wednesday it would be unable to find a buyer for the company before a scheduled elec

The U.S. dollar rose slightly against the yen Wednesday despite repeated rounds of reported central

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

BMA Corp. said Tuesday it would sell Business Men's Assurance Co. to one of Europe's largest insurer

TOKYO - Japan's Sony Corp. said Wednesday it soon will begin selling a small keyboard-less computer

Trailer Train Inc., the railcar pool subsidiary owned by the nation's major railroads, has been able

The telecommunications market for global paperless trading is heating up, withAmerican Telephone & T

THERE'S SOUND AND FURY in Congress about passing new clean air legislation limiting sulfur emissions

Sen. Steve Symms, R-Idaho, will try to amend the Senate clean air bill to weaken the government's po

The Sydney Futures Exchange's new computerized trading system is an ''unqualified success," Les Hosk

Shell International Petroleum Co. voiced "surprise and dismay" Wednesday over the Maritime Administr

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China's main shipbuilder has announced plans to develop its technology and engineering and extend it

Voters in this city Tuesday overwhelmingly turned down a referendum that would have limited some ope

The Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury sold a total of $750 million worth of dollars for Japanes

S&P AFFIRMS AMBAC'S CLAIMS-PAYING ABILITYStandard & Poor's Insurance Rating Service affirmed

Connecticut insurance regulators see insurers' recent withdrawals from that state's automobile insur

The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is looking for increased trade with the United States in 1990, and t

Their currency is named for the sun, but with inflation of nearly 3,000 percent last year, Peruvians

The extraordinary events in Eastern Europe are opening doors for U.S.-style futures trading.

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Consolidated Rail Corp. is pushing a plan to revamp the often contentious system by which railroads

The Federal Maritime Commission will launch an investigation Friday of Matson Navigation Co.'s propo

Global interest rates - including long-term U.S. lending costs - should begin falling by July by up

Empresa Lineas Maritimas Argentinas SA, the state-owned Argentine shipping line known as Elma, is up