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It's Monday afternoon and 200 cattle are up for auction at Peoria Union Stock Yards Co. A da

UK DELAYS PRIVATIZING OF ELECTRIC UTILITYBritain's right-wing Conservative government said F

Buyers and sellers alike agree the steam coal market is firming, but the Tennessee Valley Authority

Electronic data interchange provides an invisible web that helps hold the natural gas industry toget

OPEC'S HEAD TO MEET WITH EC ENERGY CHIEFBRUSSELS, Belgium - Organization of Petroleum Export

The U.S. government's approval of the sale of Northwest Airlines Inc. does not set new national poli

TNT Ltd., the giant Anglo-Australian transportation company, has established a beachhead in the Sovi

A half hour after sunset, private plane landings are banned at the Aspen Airport, even if the Boeing

AIRBUS INDUSTRIE JET CERTIFIED BY AIRPORTAn Airbus Industrie A320 aircraft, powered by Inter

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As he showed a customer a brochure on the Port of Georgetown, David Schronce said, "Well, that's the

THE FREIGHT FUTURES MARKET drifted downward early in the week, but picked up on Thursday and Friday.

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1420 (Sept. 29, 1989) Previous day - 1421 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

A proposal that the United States submitted late last week to the world trade body, the General Agre

CURRENCY CHANGE WAS THE BIG ISSUE of last week, as the Group of 7 major industrial nations launched

Motorola Inc. of Schaumburg, Ill., said it would use alternative solvents and recycling equipment to

International financial experts have gathered in New England this week for a conference on how to ge

REGIONAL BLOCS Europe: 1992. Oct. 12. Coral Gables, Fla. Seminar co-organized by the Florida

Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Co. President Sheldon Salzman said last week that Michelin has agreed to incr

Mobil Chemical Co. said it will build a plant in La Grange, Ga., to manufacture 60 million pounds a

SODIUM BICARBONATE FMC Corp.'s chemical products group, based in Philadelphia, Pa., is incre

Defense attorneys for indicted Chicago Mercantile Exchange yen futures traders won a significant pre

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Kika de la Garza will offer a bill in Congress this week that

Japan's Agriculture Ministry plans to abolish limits on new entrants into the domestic feed industry

The world's chief protector of endangered wildlife risked the wrath of environmental groups by advoc

PANELS APPROVE BILL ON FASTENER STANDARDSThe Fastener Quality Act of 1989, H.R. 3000, could

CHINA SAYS IT WANTS REFORMED SOCIALISMCommunist Party chief Jiang Zemin said Friday China wo

An article that appeared on page 7A of the Sept. 26 issue of The Journal of Commerce incorrectly sai

The West German central bank will soon raise its key interest rates, the head of that country's fift

Snowdrops, crocuses, scillas and other bulbs that bloom in early spring are undaunted by frost or la

The Bank for Foreign Affairs of the U.S.S.R. is considering opening an office in Chicago, said Eugen

Saving $3 million a year through implementation of a consultant's recommendations alone probably won

A federal judge has ordered the Maritime Administration to respond by Tuesday to a Miami barge opera

As Timothy Rhein sees it, U.S. shipping lines have two choices: deregulate or become extinct.

A committee of the Tokyo Stock Exchange has come up with three proposals for special membership. But

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Sales at chain stores have grown faster this year in oil-patch states than elsewhere in the country,

The House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee has approved legislationdirecting the gove