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Increasing charter business is the main force behind a 12.3 percent rise in pretax earnings of South

PANIC SHORT-COVERING IGNITES COPPER RALLYCopper prices in London rocketed during the afterno

President Corazon Aquino has welcomed initial reports of a government agreement with foreign banks t

New Jersey will sponsor 10 companies at a trade show in the Soviet Union this fall, a trip that migh

One of the East Coast's largest suppliers of heating oil Thursday told retailers of the fuel his com

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APPLIX WILL SUPPLY SOFTWARE TO SWISS LIFEWESTBORO, Mass. - Swiss Life Insurance, of Zurich,

Aug. 17, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low Vol.

Bureaucratic infighting is obscuring the real issues that need to be dealt with when it comes to ele

TRISODIUM PHOSPHATE FMC Corp. of Philadelphia cut prices for technical grade trisodium phosp

Thu., Aug. 17, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

The Central Design Bureau of the Soviet Ministry of Communications, along with several Eastern Europ

The seven-year saga of one of the biggest fraud cases ever to face London's insurance community ende

Not every sector of the shipping industry is suffering manning shortages. Liner companies, w

UNOCAL, NORCEN WANT TO SELL ALBERTA MINECALGARY, Alberta - Unocal Canada Ltd. and Norcen Ene

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RICHMOND PORT REPORTS RECORD CARGO FOR '88RICHMOND, Calif. - The Port of Richmond said it ha

U.S ports loaded 12 percent more chemicals for export in the second quarter of 1989, compared with t

Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. of Toledo, Ohio, will acquire full ownership of its affiliate, Fibergl

The racketeering and fraud scandal that has rocked Chicago's giant futures exchanges may be due in p

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Large-scale Soviet sugar and grain purchases are driving prices higher and threatening the viability

INSURED STORM DAMAGE IN $40 MILLION RANGEInsured property damage from Hurricane Chantal, whi

The West German state airline is adding air freighter service between Seattle and Frankfurt to a lis

Reflecting the impact of a continuing rate war, insurance brokers experienced a generally lackluster

Sea Containers Ltd., the container lessor and ferries and ports operator, on Wednesday rejected an i

JAPAN POSTS 7.8 PERCENT RISE IN INDUSTRIAL OUTPUTProduction at Japan's mines and factories r

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade each are investing $2.5 million to develo

AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER SERVICE CORP. announced with much fanfare about a year ago that it would beg

Shipments of hard liquor fell last year to the lowest point since an industry survey began in 1970,

China may have found a hidden opportunity posed by its chronically congested ports and inadequate in

American companies could find strong markets in Europe for their products if they improved their des

THAI COMPANY TO BUY BUMBLE BEE SEAFOODSPillsbury Co. said Wednesday it will sell its Bumble

Gasoline retailers in Washington state are mounting a drive to have the Utilities & Transportation C

The first shot has been fired in this season's grain subsidy battle between the United States and th

Financial advisers for Todd Shipyards announced plans to evaluate the possibility of Todd coming out

Ten United Parcel Service Inc. delivery vans Wednesday joined a small but growing fleet of natural g

Although much is unresolved in the wake of the growing legal battles following the Alaskan oil spill

Aug. 16, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court and ruled that the Coast Guard acted properly las