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Wholesale truckload prices for home heating oil fell further in a number of Northeastern markets on

The prime rate cut Monday to 10 percent from 10.5 percent greased thedollar's skids but impr

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

CIBA-GEIGY TO SELL CALIF. SUBSIDIARYCiba-Geigy Ltd. said it will sell a laser and a photofin

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Work has begun to stop erosion at Montauk Lighthouse, whose bluff is being washed into the Atlantic

COD QUOTA PROTEST BLOCKS AMSTERDAM PORTAMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Dutch fishermen halted shipp

US OFFICIAL VISITS CHINA FOR TRADE TALKSA senior U.S. Commerce Department official is in Chi

1637 (Jan. 8, 1990) Previous day - 1619 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

As the European Community embraces sweeping political changes in Eastern Europe, anxiety is growing

7 NATIONS DUMPING BRASS, COUNCIL CHARGESThe Copper and Brass Fabricators Council asked the C

Videotex, the delivery of information and services on a computer screen, has struggled to gain a foo

Removing remaining oil from a crippled Iranian tanker in the Atlantic may take another seven to 10 d

Hundreds of people clamoring to buy imported VCRs surrounded stores in a Russian city for five days,

PRATT & WHITNEY WINS CERTIFICATION ON ENGINEEAST HARTFORD, Conn. - The Pratt & Whitney PW200

Burlington Air Express has followed the lead of combination carriers that recently took steps to off

JAPAN'S TRADE SURPLUS PUT AT $1.09 BILLIONJapan had a $1.09 billion trade surplus on a custo

Mon., Jan. 8, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

Eastern European governments have fallen in love with free markets, but there's at least one free ma

AVERAGE GASOLINE PRICE INCREASES 4.5 CENTSThe average price for a gallon of gasoline rose mo

Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner said administration wrangling over a national transportat

New terms being applied to corn and soybean delivered-freight contracts may become standard operatin

A tough U.S. position on agricultural trade may turn up the heat in ongoing multilateral trade negot

Exxon Corp. officials say any losses from a 200,000- to 500,000-gallon oil spill at the Arthur Kill

Temple Holdings Ltd. has sent a letter to takeover target Sea Containers Ltd., asking that the elect

Antonio J. Colorado, long known here as "Mr. 936" for his efforts to save Section 936 tax benefits f

The Department of Commerce is predicting that railroad freight traffic growth will taper off during

The National Grain and Feed Association has urged the Interstate CommerceCommission to rejec

International Development Systems Inc., Washington, D.C.-based consultants on textile and apparel tr

THE NEWS SEEMED ALMOST TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. Housing, at last, was responding to the business downtur

COMMODITIES PRICES, as reflected in the 21-market Commodity Research Bureau Futures Index, fell by 9

President Bush Monday told the American Farm Bureau Federation his administration's "first priority"

Du Pont Co. said Monday it will spend $1 billion this decade to establish a major nylon manufacturin

TEXAS LOSSES HEAVY From December FreezeAUSTIN, Texas - December's heavy freeze caused an est

The Overseas Private Investment Corp. plans a second investment mission to Hungary and Poland this s

Two Agriculture Department analysts say the 1992 plan by the European Community to bring a single-ma

The Interstate Commerce Commission said it will allow trucking companies to raise their rates with t

Importers are beating a much-hated Customs Service user fee by bringing more goods into the country

Faster-than-expected growth at major steamship lines is causing the Port of Tacoma to revise upward