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A new investor group associated with Anacostia & Pacific Co., a Chicago-based investment banking fir

Seated in his workshop where he has meticulously transformed elephant tusks into intricate ivory art

Security analysts voiced surprise Wednesday at the sharp increase in fourth- quarter operating incom

General Motors Corp.'s Pontiac division said Wednesday it expects its domestic market share to rise

Despite the imminent entry of International Business Machines Corp. into the satellite tracking busi

Despite a fall-off of freight traffic late in the year, "1989 was a pretty darn good year," accordin

1989 VOLUME ROSE 20 PERCENT AT COTTON EXCHANGEThe New York Cotton Exchange set a record for

All state-owned buildings in New York will have to improve energy efficiency by 20 percent by the ye

The percentage of employers offering any kind of retirement plans has plunged during the last decad

Seaports seem most likely to benefit from Vietnam's ambitious bid to boost its economy by enlisting

VIETNAM EXPECTS FIELD TO PRODUCE MORE IN '90HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnam produced around 10.2 mi

A salvage firm Tuesday said it repaired an Iranian supertanker that spewed millions of gallons of cr

EAST GERMANY PLANS TO RAZE BERLIN WALLBONN, West Germany - The Berlin Wall is to be pulled d

The U.S. dollar rose sharply against the yen on the first trading day of 1990 while holding smaller

In a thin holiday trading week, secondary market prices for Third World debt were narrowly mixed, as

The Interstate Commerce Commission has lowered the maximum rates railroads may charge shippers for t

Cocaine worth $4.2 million was stashed in two waterproof tubes attached to the underside of a Colomb

NCR Corp. has won a US$3 million contract from People's Bank of China, the central bank, for automat

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London insurers decided Tuesday to restore war risk premiums for cargoes carried on merchant vessels

Morton International Inc. of Chicago said it acquired Dr. Renger GmbH & Co., a manufacturer of speci

1599 (Jan. 2, 1990) Previous day - 1592 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

It used to take two, three or even four weeks to get a roll of film developed in Hungary. But with t

JAPANESE FIRMS COVET E. EUROPEAN MARKETSJapanese companies are rushing to stake their claims

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

DEVELOPMENT BANK SETS LENDING RECORD IN 1989The Inter-American Development Bank last year ap

World outrage over the Tiananmen Square brutality has been blunted by President Bush's attempts to r

A six-mile stretch of beach on Staten Island was fouled Tuesday morning when 5,000 gallons of heatin

CSX Corp. earned $125 million, or $1.25 a share, in the 1989 fourth quarter on revenue of $2.03 bill

Oil prices continued fairly strong, but the intensity of the price increases was much abated from th

Trade delegations visiting the Seaway Port Authority of Duluth each summer, especially those from tr

Employees have been living with uncertainty at Trans World Airlines Inc. ever since Carl Icahn bough

Florida citrus processors received 7.08 million oranges during the week ended Dec. 31, up from 4.65

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. said Tuesday it will sell its virology blood screening business to Joh

U.S. soldiers on Tuesday began removing about 1,000 pieces of military hardware sent by ship from th

In a continent where large merchant fleets and state ownership are virtually synonymous, Brazil has

Transfer of Brazil's state-owned merchant fleets to the private sector is likely to pick up steam un

A story starting on Page 1A of The Journal of Commerce Jan. 2, "Lykes Gets Marad Nod For Accord With

Panama's beleaguered shipping registry will reopen its New York office, the newly installed head of

North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long ordered a rate cut in auto insurance last week, but m