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Mexico does not foresee the creation of a common market with the United States over the short term b

GM SETS SALES RECORD FOR FOREIGN MARKETSLeading U.S. automaker General Motors Corp. announce

Dane Miller, president of Biomet Inc., made some hurried telephone calls at O'Hare International Air

The United States, in a radical proposal to deal with the growing problem of delinquent payments to

EGYPT LOWERS PRICE OF CRUDE OIL BY $1CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt cut the price of its crude oil by

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway is the latest to use leasing to assure it of sufficient locomo

When Japan's largest shipping line decided to take on some big competitors in the field of electroni

The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have agreed ona set of guid

SET-ASIDES REDUCED FOR RICE FARMERSRice farmers will have to idle only 20 percent of their a

Four men directly involved in the administration of a dockworkers union bank account fund are expect

Amoco Corp. and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union were still negotiating Thursday as of pre

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

* Customs Update 4A * Greg Johnson - Managing Traffic 2B* Boeing Delays Freighter Conversion

Knight-Ridder Inc. reported Thursday that fourth-quarter earnings from continuing operations rose to

Westbound trans-Atlantic freight rates for conference carriers will go up effective April 1, the Ame

S&P MAY LOWER RATING ON CON FREIGHT DEBTStandard and Poor's Corp. may lower the A+ senior de

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China Thursday released its second set of trade figures for last year, and they show a deficit inste

Monetary union between East and West Germany should be one of the first steps in the formation of a

Having survived several months of tumultuous fighting over auto insurance, state officials are optim

Latin America watchers rule out Brazil as a candidate for a new debt accord anytime soon, citing a l

Coal is more likely to gain market share in the unified European economy after 1992 than competing f

A fall in Soviet oil exports to traditional East European markets is pushing extra business toward O

KEMPER AUTHORIZES BIG STOCK REPURCHASELONG GROVE, Ill. - Kemper Corp. Thursday announced pla

JAPAN WEIGHS APPLYING MONOPOLY LAWS ABROADJapan's Fair Trade Commission said Thursday its in

U.S. shoe importers are turning away from their largest traditional suppliers in a bid to cut costs

Argentina late Wednesday slapped massive increases on public service tariffs and gasoline prices tha

When Silicon Valley's hottest new personal computer hit the stores back in 1986, Lucian Wencel was o

Start-up of Boeing Co.'s program to convert used 747 passenger planes to giant air freighters has be

Southwest Airlines' net income for the fourth quarter was $8.1 million, or 27 cents a share, on reve

A Northwest Airlines flight attendant has retired at age 70 after logging nearly four and one-half y

J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc.'s fourth-quarter earnings fell to $8.4 million, or 36 cents a shar

WASHINGTON - For the week ended Jan. 27, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railro

Foreshadowing the channel-deepening project scheduled to begin this summer, yearly maintenance dredg

The Senate has adopted an amendment to its clean air bill that would ban use of the solvent methyl c

U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter stressed that it was "not realistic" to ex

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS FOR SHIPMENTS OF WEARING APPAREL AND TEXTILES FROM THE SOVIET UNION. In anticipat

Zurich Insurance Co., Europe's second largest insurer, is restructuring its United Kingdom operation

Chile's 1989 trade surplus totaled US$1.599 billion, down 27.9 percent from a year ago, the Chilean

Feb. 1, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f