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Timken Co., the roller bearing company, is taking a minority stake in a joint venture in India and s

One day after agreeing to repeal the 1988 catastrophic health insurance law for the elderly, key sen

INDUSTRIAL AND MEDICAL GASES Air Products and Chemicals Inc. will increase prices a minimum

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

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Commodity Exchange Inc. copper futures ended moderately lower Monday in response to concerns about a

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

If he had his way, Nippon Goodyear President Dean E. Schlup would tear down all the Bridgestone bil

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

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

Trade union leaders at the Ford Motor Co. in Britain called a strike ballot Monday among 32,000 work

Unwelcome scrutiny from the Securities and Exchange Commission has dealt Bergvall + Hudner Co. its f

Axa-Midi Assurances said it would postpone testimony before insurance regulators in Chicago and Idah

JAPAN'S PIONEER BUYS STAKE IN DISCOVISIONTwo U.S. subsidiaries of Japan's Pioneer Electronic

A number of large Rotterdam transport concerns, along with the city government and the municipal por

Nov. 20, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

American Ship Building Co.'s Tampa Shipyards division, which had feared layoffs because of lack of w

Komatsu Ltd., Japan's leading producer of construction machinery, said sales rose 11.1 percent durin

Tons of U.S. food are arriving in Poland but officials say it may take weeks or months to begin pour

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

Boeing Co.'s largest union early today was completing a count in a contract ratification vote that c

KOITO REJECTS PICKENS' REQUESTKoito Manufacturing Co. rejected Monday a request by Texas oil

The Soviet Union is ordering four more containerships from two West German shipyards from which it p

Illinois International Port has approved a lease that calls for a $100 million investment in 300 acr

An accord that could open up one of the world's largest oil areas will be signed in mid-December, of

Prices for Third-World debt in the secondary market broadly rebounded last week as speculators bough

FIRE SHUTS DOWN UNIT AT CHEVRON REFINERYNEW YORK - One of the crude oil processing units at

Nov. 20, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Corning Inc. held dedication ceremonies last week at its reopened Blacksburg, Va., plant, which prod

An import bill of $70 million for an entire year might seem laughable to countries that spend billio

STAGFLATION, LOW ECONOMIC GROWTH and high inflation, is threatening Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

The Swedish owner of two U.S. cruise ship lines has put off plans to list itself on the Stockholm St

A story headlined, "Ship Finance Critic Hits Plans to Keep Using Older Tankers," on Page 14B of The

H.E. SCHURIG OPENS OFFICE IN SINGAPOREHOUSTON - H.E. Schurig & Co., a Houston-based internat

EMMETT IS CONFIRMED AS NEW ICC MEMBERThe Senate has confirmed Edward M. Emmett to serve as a

Turf battles over regulating new financial products are hurting U.S. chances to compete in the globa

One of the many problems confronting Congress as it develops new farm legislation for 1990 is rice a

The Bank of America, chairman of Costa Rica's bank advisory committee, Monday announced that the gov

Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee Iacocca, normally the main attraction at an annual meeting of United Aut

Italian industrial production in August rose 5.8 percent from a year ago, the Italian Statistical In