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Todd Shipyards Corp., struggling to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, wants to sell its profitable

Negotiations for adding the Port of Richmond deepwater terminal to the stable of facilities under th

Air cargo airlines - some of the heaviest users of the aging jetliners that must be overhauled to be

Skandia International said it has signed a letter of intent to buy the Charter Group, an insurance a

Westcoast Energy Inc. and its Southeast Asian partners said they have stopped work on an ethylene an

The full House defeated an attempt by the powerful chairman of the Ways and Means Committee to trans

PITTSTON-RELATED STRIKES HIT MINES IN 2 STATESPIKEVILLE, Ky. - More than 350 United Mine Wor

The Supreme Court said Monday it declined to review the Interior Department's controversial decision

BOEING, UNION TAKE UP MARATHON NEGOTIATIONSBoeing Co. and the International Association of M

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Among other provisions, Zimbabwe's new investment code: * Requires 25 percent foreign owners

Anecdotal evidence suggests that the British economy is wobbling to a halt as high interest rates an

Mon., Oct. 2, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

The Maritime Administration announced Monday that two contracts totaling $3.1 million have been awar

Nintendo is going after America's adults, after already hooking its children on its electronic game

Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter said there is an excellent chance that greater crop flexibilit

Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries PLC said Monday it will build a large- scale plant in the Uni

Companies that are major oil consumers can hedge the price of future purchases with oil swaps over t

Oct. 2, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

British Coal Corp. is better prepared than at any time in its history to meet the challenge of rival

Shippers, ocean carrier conferences and the Federal Maritime Commission are coming to the end of nea

Just 37 percent of U.S. executives surveyed recently said they have begun implementing strategies to

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

The United States and Mexico are reviewing a proposed Customs facility that, its backers say, could

BRAZILIAN COFFEE CHIEF ARRIVES AT ICO TALKSThe arrival here of Brazilian Coffee Institute Pr

Pioneer Life Insurance Co. of Illinois and Manhattan National Corp. have signed a definitive agreeme

Buoyed by recent sales of subsidized vegetable oil to Tunisia, and by favorable world prices general

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

New export orders for the U.S. industrial sector rose sharply last month for their best showing sinc

B.F. Goodrich Co. Chairman John D. Ong said that the current $26 million expansion at the company's

Based on the unexpectedly large increase in U.S. August durable goods, economists have raised their

The policy may well be the nation's first example of patent enforcement insurance, and is especially

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

An expected purchase of U.S. poultry by the Soviet Union will help that nation feed its people this

Several Japanese oil companies have separately asked the Ministry of International Trade and Industr

The general public has regarded British Rail as something of a joke ever since a British Rail planne

K MART STORES USE RECYCLABLE PLASTIC BAGSK mart Corp. has begun using recyclable plastic bag

THE STOCK MARKET HAS BEEN A MOST RELIABLE predicter of recessions, someone once quipped; it has fore

Grains and soybeans surged ahead Monday as traders scrambled to buy contracts following rumors that

An old train ship destined for the scrap heap is causing a lot of commotion off the Soviet coast.