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John W. Snow was in his small book-lined office preparing to teach an economics class at the Univers

For a good insight into Vietnam's clandestine way of doing business, consider how the diplomatically

PANAMA LOOTING TAKES TOLL ON PORTSPANAMA CITY, Panama - Looting that swept Panama after last

In a move to expand its role in the lucrative refrigerated container market, shipping giant Sea-Land

The sustained surge of trade in Southeast Asia is prompting more companies to look at containers as

The Shipbuilders Council of America is sponsoring a Jan. 31 seminar that will take a close look at t

1592 (Dec. 29, 1989) Previous day - 1584 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Dec. 28, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

The Port of Hueneme, Calif., said that it has signed a contract with San Francisco-based CMT Systems

Stock in the Germany Fund Inc. rose for a third straight day last Thursday despite a warning that th

The government's index of leading economic indicators rose a scant 0.1 percent in November, the Comm

A Dallas entrepreneur who tried earlier to found an airline for smokers said last week that he wants

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

HOLIDAY DELIVERIES SET RECORD FOR UPSGREENWICH, Conn. - United Parcel Service said it delive

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

WASHINGTON - For the week ended Dec. 23, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railro

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

Belcher Co. of New York Inc., Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., changed its name to Coastal Oil New York Inc.

Waterfront employer and labor groups said the 1927 Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act was

The Interstate Commerce Commission approved a 5.5 percent rate increase for the nation's trucking co

SHELL SAYS MAINTENANCE WON'T SHUT BRENT LINEThe pipeline serving the North Sea Brent crude o

Fri., Dec. 29, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Distillate supplies and gasoline inventories decreased, the American Petroleum Institute's latest we

AMERICAN EXPRESS ARM TO SELL GENEVA UNITNEW YORK - American Express Bank Ltd., the internati

ROTTERDAM CONSIDERS CRUDE CONTRACT CHANGEROTTERDAM, Netherlands - The crude oil contract tra

Despite an economic austerity drive, the Chinese government is determined that its first big nuclear

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

This state claims more fame from burning fossil fuels at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway than for it

Industrial nations have finalized an emergency loan for Poland of as much as $500 million to help c

There's not as much marketable coal in three key eastern Kentucky counties as generallyperceived, ac

A surprise drop in Britain's balance of payments deficit for the fourth successive month to 1.43 bi

* Kevin Commins - Currency Forecast 3A * JofC Industrial Price Index 6A* James M. Nevler - C

Dec. 29, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

THE FUTURES MARKET drifted sideways for another week, with volumes way down as traders on both sides

China's central bank chief says a 15-month-old austerity program must stretch and that state compani

The circular, paneled chambers of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals hardly seems the place to

The international silk trading pattern is changing as Asia, which produces 95 percent of the world's

FRANCE'S TRADE BALANCE DECLINED IN OCTOBERFrance's trade balance in October fell to a season

The dollar will start 1990 with a bang, but it probably will weaken later in the year, currency ana

Motorola Inc. has shelved a semiconductor manufacturing plant in the Philippines in anticipation of