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Efforts are inching forward to set up an electronic information system that will enable major north

JAPAN BUILDERS EXPECT ORDERS TO INCREASE 16 PERCENTMajor Japanese construction firms expect

RISING INTEREST RATES OVERSEAS and signs of a rebound in U.S. economic growth have persuaded the Fed

JAPANESE FIRM ENTERS EAST GERMAN MARKETKYODO, Japan - Kao Corp., a major chemical company, w

S. KOREA, AUSTRALIA DISCUSS BEEF TRADESEOUL, South Korea - South Korea and Australia Tuesday

Jon M. Huntsman, the Salt Lake City investor, has decided to terminate negotiations with Pittsburgh-

Auto insurance reform is in the wind in Rhode Island - if lawyer-legislators don't scuttle it.

The Supreme Court Tuesday let stand a ruling that reinforces the federal government's effort to make

CALIFORNIANS HAVE HEARD about safe sex. But "safe surplus lines?" Indeed. Excess and surplus

The chance of a major San Francisco Bay Area earthquake is twice as high as previously thought - abo

NALCO CHEMICAL CO. (Naperville, Ill.) - The board of directors of Nalco Chemical Co. has elected E.J

Although there is no way to know what the Russian wheat aphid population will be in the United State

Brazil's largest vegetable oils processing company, Ceval Agroindustrial SA,plans to invest

AMBASE RETAINS FIRM TO SELL COVER UNITSAmBase Corp. has retained First Boston Corp. to offer

The story headlined, "EPA Deadlines Loom for Service Stations," beginning on Page 1A in The Journal

EC internal policy changes and growing external pressures will radically transform the shape of the

Statoil, the Norwegian state oil company, said it reached an agreement in principle on a 20-year dea

The U.S. dollar was mixed Tuesday, after rising on Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's Washing

Feb. 20, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Exports by this nation's electronics industry should grow 9.6 percent this year, to $18 billion, acc

Hydro-Quebec's plan to expand hydroelectric production and sell power to the United States will enda

Continued support by export credit agencies abroad will help to assure Hong Kong's success ahead of

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

CFTC DELAYS HEARING ON NYMEX GAS FUTURESThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission postponed i

GREENSPAN SAYS RATES MAY DROP IN GERMANYWest German interest rates may drop when East and We

The United Mine Workers of America announced Tuesday that union members employed by Pittston Coal Gr

Executives of All Nippon Airways Co. announced an agreement Tuesday to create - along with other Jap

Tue., Feb. 20, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Gross national product in China last year increased just under 4 percent over 1988 to 1.56 trillion

Cooperation of bulk shipowners through the formation of shipping pools is likely to increase and in

UNLIKE FEDERAL EXPRESS and United Parcel Service, all of TNT Skypak's trans- ocean express traffic i

European shipping lines are planning to send information about container shipments to the next port

A number of U.S. ports, bypassed by the container load center movement for a variety of reasons, may

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. will double the amount of cargo it ships with ABC Containerline NV thi

BENDER CONVERTS VESSEL TO LARGEST US TRAWLERMOBILE, Ala. - Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co.

EUROTUNNEL, CONTRACTOR NAME PROJECT MANAGEREurotunnel, the Anglo-French group that owns and

The Massachusetts Port Authority is always happy about taking business awayfrom New York, bu

CSX Transportation Inc. is recalling 1,000 furloughed employees on Feb. 26, at its freight car repai

CSX Corp. is moving to acquire the Richmond, Fredricksburg & Potomac Railroad. CSX, which di

William J. McDonald, an attorney who played a major role in the formation of Consolidated Rail Corp.