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Malaysia's natural rubber production fell 11.5 percent to 675,943 metric tons in the first 6 months

CENTRAL OF GEORGIA ALLOWED TO CUT CREWSNORFOLK, Va. - The Central of Georgia Railroad Co. an

The government has more than 250 hours of secret tape recordings of one group of traders and brokers

Southern California ports and shipping lines are afraid they might lose business if one provision of

Check out any parking lot on a scorching summer day and you'll see it: an invention so simple, so ob

Taiwan is starting to use its vast foreign exchange reserves aggressively and hopes to overtake Hong

In his ceaseless quest to spur business, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has taken a step

SPANISH BANK BUYS STAKE IN KEMPER CORP.MADRID, Spain - Banco Santander, Spain's fourth-large

The Dominican Republic, whose major trading partner is the United States, is hoping to ease Caribbea

A new ship-chartering company formed this spring has gotten off to a fast start. MC Shipping

THREE COMPANIES BUY AMOCO NEB. PROPERTIESBeard Oil Co., Floyd Oil Co. and Triad Energy Corp.

IS THE UNITED STATES HEADED for a "canola explosion"? This was recently suggested by a California-ba

PORK HAMS AND SHOULDERS FROM THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY. The U.S. Trade Representative has suspended the

A Caribbean resort operator is joining with a Persian Gulf holding company to develop a resort prope

Farmers and the grain trade are moving to stop the Senate from passing a bill with a provision requi

Maritime labor unions complain that Japan's shipowners have gone too far in substituting inexpensive

Exxon Corp. says it has scrapped an oil drilling project located amid Mayan ruins in a Guatemalan ra

Navistar International Corp. reported third quarter net income of $28 million, or 8 cents a share, o

Federal regulators and lawmakers said they were pleased - but expressed cautious optimism - with the

The Communist Party on Thursday opened the possibility of radical change in the Soviet Union's struc

London gold market participants are confident the new gold forward rate agreement, introduced by N.M

MODEST RISE EXPECTED IN CONSUMER PRICESU.S. consumer prices crept up only 0.2 percent in Jul

The U.S. International Trade Commission says it has set a final hearing Oct. 31 on the request of Am

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The shrinking number of jobs on U.S.-flag merchant ships has made the U.S. fleet largely immune to t

As the deep freeze of the Alaskan winter approaches, hundreds of tons of French fertilizers are bein

Aug. 17, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

When the government of Kuwait received U.S. approval to employ non-American seamen on 11 Kuwaiti tan

Consumers Power Co. is asking the Michigan Public Service Commission to clear the way for it to sign

From Anchorage to San Diego, West Coast air cargo volumes grew at all but one of the West Coast's la

In an attempt to reduce the number of drivers in New York's overly-populated assigned risk plan, Ins

A Bermuda company that insures Exxon Corp. and most of the major domestic oil companies is consideri

The Indiana Port Commission and Ceres Terminals Inc. will meet Aug. 28 to try to resolve a steel shi

1421 (Aug. 17, 1989) Previous day - 1417 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

BACKGROUND: The ability of many Third World countries to repay their external debt deteriorated shar

The Food and Drug Administration is conducting new tests of the 30 most prescribed generic drugs, re

General Motors Corp. expects sales in Taiwan this year to reach $350 million as demand continues to

IBM, SIEMENS INK DEAL TO SET UP ROLM UNITSInternational Business Machines Corp. and Siemens

The United States posted an $8.2 billion merchandise deficit for June, its smallest monthly trade ga

U.S. exports to Mexico are poised to boom, now that there's a promise of more money to spend on non-