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GLOBAL FARM STRATEGY STRESSED AT CONVENTIONThe need for a global agriculture strategy and di

Federal prosecutors said two yen traders cooperating with the FBI investigation of the futures pits

Members of the Institute of Marine Underwriters collected 1.6 billion ($2.7 billion) in premiums in

Japanese exports of all types of motor vehicles fell below 6 million units in 1989, the first time i

China watchers say much of the country's economic policy these days is self- defeating because of co

Indonesia may cut the selling price of its liquefied natural gas to stay competitive and hold its le

Du Pont Co. said Tuesday it would cut 900 jobs as part of a restructuring of its polymer products bu

A proposal by President Bush to impose an 11-cent fee on every futures trade elicited a mixed reacti

The price of lumber has soared this month, shrugging off signs of a weak housing market in pockets o

THE HIGHER BOND YIELDS GO, the more buying interest there likely will be for the new supply of Treas

Timothy Gailey, Massachusetts insurance commissioner, said he's under timepressure to introd

TEXAS DEMOCRATS VOTE ON NEED FOR REFORMAUSTIN, Texas - Democrats in Texas will have a chance

Although President Bush's budget proposal doesn't include funding for revising maritime subsidy prog

SONY CORP. INTRODUCES TINY ELECTRONIC BOOKSony Corp., having reshaped lifestyles by bringing

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The Port of Houston was reported "back to normal" Tuesday after Monday's picketing by independent tr

Combustion Engineering Inc. shareholders Tuesday approved the merger of C-E into a subsidiary of Ase

An increasingly popular strategy among U.S. shippers is to reduce the number of freight carriers and

The costs to employers of providing medical coverage continued to soar last year, outpacing inflatio

Brazilian exporters are leaning fiercely on the government to devalue the currency. But whil

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With large tracts of docklands and shipping waterfront up for sale or lease along the Brooklyn shore

Mark Reis, acting director for the Port of Seattle's harbor development section, will become directo

Duncan Alexander, operations manager of the export division at Johnson & Johnson International, file

Yemen's economic strategy in the 1990s will be to maintain its development of oil, gas and mineral r

Domestic coal production totaled 20.8 million tons during the week ended Jan. 20, up 2.6 percent fro

Amoco Corp. and Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine of France have begun detailed negotiations for the a

The Bush administration announced it plans to sell $773 million in Apache attack helicopters and Hel

The U.S. dollar jumped dramatically late Tuesday following a report that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorba

Although it may be some time before the dust settles from political upheavals in Eastern Europe and

GREEK VESSEL MISSING OFF SOUTHERN ENGLANDBritish coast guard units searched Tuesday for a Gr

The FBI's focus on an Enterprise businessman in its investigation of two mail-bomb slayings prompted

A large piece of maritime history that lay submerged beneath the streets of New York for decades has

The number of working U.S. oil and gas rigs continued to decline, dropping by 27 to 937 for the week

Railroad intermodal executives received an earful from large shippers early this week on all they ar

Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and top state transportation officials Tuesday unveiled a $400 million plan

The Army's civil engineers, responsible for the nation's navigation, flood control and environmental

President Corazon Aquino is considering emergency measures to offset an expected slowdown in foreign

CME RAISES MARGINS FOR S&P 500 FUTURESThe Chicago Mercantile Exchange has raised its minimum

NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (New York) - Robert A. Levin and Lewis S. Sunderland were named vice pr