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Wednesday's dissolution of Japan's powerful House of Representatives, entailing a pro- jected loss f

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Virginia's Port of Hampton Roads is facing a slowdown in its double-digit growth rate and a possible

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

The economy is expanding slowly in most regions of the United States, with the West outperforming t

Nissan Motors Corp. U.S.A. intends to go ahead with a controversial commercial scheduled to air duri

FMC CHIEF TO ADDRESS TRANSPORTATION TABLEJames J. Carey, acting chairman of the Federal Mari

Jan. 24, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

Norfolk Southern Corp. earned $148.2 million, or 87 cents a share, in the fourth quarter, down 17.2

Shoemakers here are watching anxiously for signs of change in discouraging domestic and export marke

The dollar fell sharply with the stock market early Wednesday and later rebounded on worsening news

SINGAPORE COMPANIES POST RECORD EXPORTSLocally owned companies are projected to have exporte

Stranded oil terminal operators voiced hope that the Chelsea River could be reopened to tanker traff

The Coastal Corp. said Wednesday that its Belcher Oil Co., Miami, subsidiary will change its name to

INTERNATIONAL PROTEINS CORP. (Woodbridge, N.J.) - J. Eric Hanson was named vice chairman and chief e

PHILIPPINES PUSHING COAL DEVELOPMENTMANILA, Philippines - Philippine President Corazon Aquin

One of the colony's largest shipowners is studying plans to shift some technical operations to Singa

A Norwegian investment bank and a Bermuda-registered oil company are attempting to raise $140 millio

The European Community has been forced by Britain and West Germany to rework its plans to harmonize

Aeroflot, the Soviet airline, chose the European Airbus Industrie consortium over U.S. aircraft manu

BIG 3 AUTOMAKERS DROP 6 PERCENT IN SALESThe three major U.S.-based carmakers showed a 6 perc

The European Community will formally accept defeat today in a long-running and acrimonious dispute w

Although Israel enjoys free trade agreements with both the European Community and the United States,

IBM and Siemens AG, the German electronics giant, have announced an agreement to develop jointly a n

Brazil's 60,000 oil workers returned to their jobs Wednesday after voting to accept a special labor

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange said late Tuesday that it has expelled and levied heavy fines agains

U.S. and Soviet negotiators today begin their fourth and final day of bilateral shipping talks with

Vulcan Carriers Ltd. has won Maritime Administration approval to use six ships instead of four under

The work rules of the Port of Baltimore's unopened high-technology marine terminal will remain unset

The Soviet Union is facing a severe crisis as nearly 3 million tons of grain imports sit idle in por

You're the marketing manager for Xebec Co., a maker of industrial process- control equipment. The co

London's influential marine insurers are removing Panama, including the Canal Zone, from their list

JOHNSON & HIGGINS (New York) - Gregory N. Dekker was named a vice president, aviation division, of t

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A key business group this week called for a drastic scaling down of export controls on products trad

Taiwan's Securities and Exchange Commission has approved plans by Merrill Lynch & Co. and Shearson L

Gov. Jim Florio's plan to reduce New Jersey's car insurance rates may win him friends among drivers,

Deputy U.S. Maritime Administrator William A. Creelman will discuss the maritime implications of the

The Bank of America projects steady growth in California's exports but a slight decline in imports f

The grain crop that produces America's bread has been stalked by drought for the second year in a ro