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W. GERMANY'S GNP INCREASED 4 PERCENT IN 1989FRANKFURT, West Germany - West Germany's real gr

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New officers were named to three major property/casualty insurance organizations during the joint in

In his annual state of the state address, California Gov. George Deukmejian indicated that he and As

Primary inventories of distillate fuel oil, used for home heating, and gasoline were drawn down furt

The law firm of Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens, New York, which handles maritime regulatory cases, h

The December freeze in the Florida orange groves should guarantee Brazilian citrus growers and proce

Mobay Corp. of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Calgene Inc. of Davis, Calif., announced Tuesday anagreement to

RJR'S DEL MONTE UNIT SOLD TO MERRILL GROUPRJR Nabisco Inc. announced the completion of its a

Maersk Inc. said Wednesday that the Navy's Military Sealift Command had acted wisely in splitting a

The head of Iran's tanker operations said that its damaged ship in the Atlantic is in danger of spil

Jan. 10, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

South Korean President Roh Tae Woo Wednesday called on the business community to develop advanced te

FRANCE TO LIBERALIZE INVESTMENT RULESFrench Economic Minister Pierre Beregovoy Wednesday pre

CARRIER GROUPS END SURCHARGES AT 2 PORTSShipping lines operating between Japan and the Middl

American Airlines is raising rates for hauling cargo between airports, the company said in a release

Defense lawyers will likely challenge secretly taped conversations in the massive fraud probe of the

The dollar traded mixed Wednesday, after rising from early lows on reports that the Federal Reserve

Charlie McKinney's business started with a sketch on a paper napkin. What he drew became the

In the story headlined "Sedgwick Regroups For Global Aims," which appeared on Page 13A in The Journa

A new three-year agreement between Grand Trunk Western Railroad and the Brotherhood of Locomotive E

Tokyo stocks tumbled Tuesday on rumors linking the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to a stock scanda

China has bought an additional 300,000 metric tons of U.S. wheat under a price subsidy program, the

The EC Commission said Tuesday it had closed an anti-competition case against the U.S. soft-drink ma

A story that appeared in The Journal of Commerce Jan. 8 on Page 1B under the headline, "Manila Boxpo

China told its 1 billion people Tuesday that a 16-month-old austerity drive was not aimed at loweri

The Port of Hampton Roads, Va., soon will boast double-stack trains, special intermodal trains that

U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills Tuesday said Brazil's problems shipping sugar to the United St

Eurotunnel, the Anglo-French Channel Tunnel group, said Tuesday it is ''getting closer to a deal" wi

The dollar rose Tuesday in what most dealers called a technical consolidation after recent weakness.

The Soviet Union Tuesday proposed that the Comecon trading bloc begin trading on a hard currency bas

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

Industry leaders say the idea of a "world car" may finally come to fruition in the 1990s, but its de

Work on a long-stalled naphtha cracker in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung is likely to get

Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America Inc. said passenger car sales in December totaled 13,941 units, a

Analysts expect underwriting results for Canada's property/casualty industry to deteriorate further

A leading association of sugar users asked the Agriculture Department Monday to raise U.S. sugar imp

US TRADE AID: NO DATE FOR USSR GRAIN TALKSORLANDO, Fla. - Contrary to statements by U.S. Tra

A proposed change to the Customs Service's policy on fuel oil blending operations would close a nett

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