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

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

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

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The reconstruction of the Soviet and Eastern European economies out of the ruins of the Cold War cou

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

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

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

Regardless of what the United States does to improve East-West trade, the main onus rests on the Sov

Shareholders of Zenith Electronics Corp. have voted overwhelmingly to approve the sale of Zenith's c

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index was little changed last week as higher cotton, hide a

The Agriculture Department announced last week that the federal price support for milk produced by f

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The European buying spree by French insurance companies advanced last week when the state-owned insu

LAWSUIT CHALLENGES CITY'S POLYSTYRENE BANPORTLAND, Ore. - A plastics recycler and five compa

E.I du Pont de Nemours & Co. finally passed a litmus test of sorts this autumn. A handshake

Holiday vacationers returning home to severe damage from burst water pipes are tripling estimated in

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

A key U.S. business organization is about to recommend a significant easing of restrictions on expor

The Federal Maritime Commission, preparing for a mid-1990 review of Taiwan shipping practices, has o

Domestic textile manufacturers say they'll do everything in their power to block a proposed joint ve

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

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

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

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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

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

Southeast Asia is following the footsteps of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan down the rich man's path

SOCK SHOP NEGOTIATES FOR LOWER RENT IN USSock Shop International PLC, the high-flying Britis

Thick fog in the Pacific Northwest is causing some delays for air cargo, particularly in the Puget S

Personnel attached to the air cargo business development unit of the Port Authority of New York and

1584 (Dec. 28, 1989) Previous day - 1585 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

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