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Mon., Oct. 16, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

The Brooklyn waterfront looked something like its former self Monday as a breakbulk ship unloaded 15

Key officials at the African Development Bank are looking into the possibility of creating an Africa

1509 (Oct. 16, 1989) Previous day - 1494 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

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

PUERTO RICO MARINE MANAGEMENT INC. (Edison, N.J.) - William Stallings was named South Atlantic area

The Soviet Union has signed an agreement to expand four major commercial ports in Cuba by 1991, incl

HIGH COURT UPHOLDS PAN AM JUDGEMENTThe Supreme Court on Monday refused to free Pan American

Dockworkers in three union locals are scheduled to vote on a tentative labor contract this week, but

State officials apparently are at odds over whether to proceed with a lawsuit against 15 auto insura

Jesse M. Calhoon, the retired president of the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, is blasting

The trouble with Europe's plan for the insurance industry for the 1990s is that the impracticalities

Caribbean countries have agreed to increase their level of cooperation in the fight against the smug

Oct. 16, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Canadian regulators are expected Thursday to approve an ambitious plan to tap the rich Arctic gas r

Many small and midsized U.S. companies are ill-prepared to do business in the 1990s, presuming that

IRAN'S CRUDE EXPORTS DECLINED IN SEPTEMBERNICOSIA, Cyprus - Iranian crude oil exports droppe

BRITISH AEROSPACE SEES POSSIBILITY OF MERGERBritish Aerospace PLC said Monday it was looking

In late September, Thomas B. Crowley, chairman of Crowley Maritime Corp., got an urgent call from so

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The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to an asbestos manufacturer trying to challenge a court order to

MARINE TERMINALS CORP. (San Francisco) - James F. Wiltshire was named vice president of contracting

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

Debating cargo preference for U.S. ocean carriers usually involves a confusing blur of numbers on th

PRODUCER PRICES JUMP IN SEPTEMBERPrices at the wholesale level rose a steep 0.9 percent in S

Protective Life Insurance Co.'s claims-paying ability was recently rated ''AA" by Standard & Poor's.

COCOA GRIND DATA CONSTRUED AS BEARISHTraders said here that the 2.8 percent fall in the U.S.

Himont Inc. of Wilmington, Del., asked federal officials to ban imports of some Japanese-made chemic

Word that financing had collapsed for the expected $6.75 billion acquisition of UAL Corp., one of th

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

The surge in oil prices which sent key crudes in London and New York up by about $1 a barrel in the

Two regional trucking companies will soon find out if the same incentives that help sell airline tic

Aficionados of statistics might have been heartened last week when U.S. drilling contractors reporte

Property/casualty insurers' burden from the Tax Reform Act of 1986 will amount to $7.8 billion in ne

Bush administration officials are becoming concerned that congressional wrangling on reform of trade

UNIROYAL TECHNOLOGY LICENSED TO VENTUREUniroyal Chemical Co. of Middlebury, Conn. said it pl

Although he was not available for comment Friday, Peter Wilson is rumored to be quite anxious about

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

Currency traders expect the dollar to decline this week, particularly if the U.S. trade numbers Tues