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The formal start-up of daily trading later this year on the Hungarian Stock Exchange could help attr

Two days of talks on opening this country's market for imported beef went nowhere, and South Korea a

Air France is buying 55 percent stake in UTA, an airline subsidiary of the Chargeurs group, for a to

EASTERN RECORD PROBE WIDENED BY GRAND JURYA federal grand jury probe into allegations that E

Mexico's average daily crude oil production increased 0.4 percent to 2.516 million barrels in 1989 f

The Coast Guard has started construction of a larger, faster prototype motor lifeboat that eventuall

COTTON MERCHANT JULIEN FILES UNDER CHAPTER 11Julien Co., the world's No. 2 cotton merchant,

This country will end its liberal policy on imports March 31, the commerce ministry says. Some busin

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

The California Fourth District Court of Appeal (Division 3 in Orange County) has refused to overturn

The widow of historical shipbuilder Nicholas Benton has filed a $29 million negligence suit against

Waterman Steamship Corp. is seeking Maritime Administration permission to extend for five years a su

By the end of this year, Yugoslavia plans to set up international financial and commodity exchanges

FREE SPENDING BY POLITICIANS IN THE 1970s was largely responsible for the inflation that swelled to

CHELATING AGENTS Dow Chemical Co. announced a 3 cent-a-pound price increase for its Versene

The Pacific Northwest's largest international trade organizations - Boeing Co., Microsoft and the po

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. has named John W. Murray manager of operations for its mid-Atlantic divisi

An Environmental Protection Agency review of toxic industrial releases is reviving concerns that per

UK'S FERRANTI BLAMES US ARMS UNIT FOR LOSSBritish defense group Ferranti International Signa

Congress is expected to expand both economic aid and trade benefits to Eastern Europe this year.

EXXON PLANT TO RESUME FULL OPERATIONS SOONBATON ROUGE, La. - Exxon Co. U.S.A.'s Baton Rouge

Qantas continues to dominate the air cargo business in and out of Australia and the government-owned

Jan. 12, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago1/12 1/11

Fri., Jan. 12, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

ECONOMIC GROWTH EXPECTED TO SLOWWorldwide economic growth is expected to slow down this year

It will be several weeks before all the barges now blocking navigation on the Monongehela River are

More than 75 years after the ill-fated luxury liner Titanic failed to make it across the Atlantic on

Sembawang Shipyard Ltd. is undertaking a substantial financial restructuring to raise cash for furth

REGIONAL BLOCS Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: End of an Era? Jan. 23. Portland, Ore. Conta

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

The Bush administration, facing strong opposition from the auto and oil industries, is trying to rev

Most of the ships that transferred out of Panama's shipping registry over the last three months are

Colombia is studying a Costa Rican proposal for a more regulated supply of mild coffee to internatio

CANADA UNEMPLOYMENT HIT 7.7 PERCENT IN DECEMBERCanada's seasonally adjusted unemployment rat

Sea Containers Ltd. disclosed Friday it had completed 80 percent of the recapitalization program it

Jan. 12, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low Vol.

BETHLEHEM STEEL TO SELL RAIL STAKELACKAWANNA, N.Y. - Bethlehem Steel Corp. has agreed to sel

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

SCOR (New York) - John T. Andrews has been named senior vice president and general counsel of SCOR U