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Soviet oil production is lagging increasingly behind target this year and was about 24 million barre

The past two weeks of public hearings into rebating, or illegal discounting of freight rates, in the

Some 64,000 dockworkers who belong to the International Longshoremen's Association are set to vote t

CARTER: AFRICA NEEDS HELP WITH AGRICULTUREOTTA, Nigeria - Former president Jimmy Carter urge

Cincinnati Milacron Inc. agreed to buy a blow-molding machinery line from Hayssen Manufacturing Co.

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J. - Degussa Corp.'s peroxygens division will increase

ALLIED-SIGNAL TO BUILD AUTO CATALYST PLANTMORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Allied-Signal Inc. will bu

Canadian specialty chemical producers say they would be badly hurt by accelerated removal of tariffs

The export bonus program has succeeded in its mission of targeting shipments of U.S. farm commoditie

TAIWAN SET TO LIFT TARIFF ON GOLD IMPORTSTaiwan's parliament should approve the removal of a

Brazil and Colombia are ready to withhold coffee from the United States unless importers there pay r

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission Monday said it filed and settled a 19-count administrative

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The proportion of Japanese farming households tilling land of more than 2.5 hectares continued to ri

An increase in closing mortgage rates, coupled with higher home prices, dug deeper into home buyers'

The U.S. dollar's decline steepened Monday morning after major American bankscut their prime

AFGHANISTANISM: THAT WAS SOMETHING PEOPLE in the newspaper business used to hear a lot about. It ref

Now that most money center banks have lowered their prime rate to 10.5 percent from 11 percent, futu

The Asian move toward privatization seems to have found a new fan, with the South Korean government

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

Mon., July 31, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

India's film industry, one of the world's biggest, is on the brink offinancial disaster as v

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U.S. steel production increased 0.3 percent in the week ended Saturday from the previous week.

The West will increase its support for sweeping political and economic reform in Poland and Hungary

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

TNT Skypak, Europe's largest express package carrier, is looking for ways to provide domestic servic

As intermodalism moves toward its maturity in the United States, the same ocean carriers that operat

The main obstacle to Hoylake Investments Ltd. pulling off Britain's largest- ever takeover with its

After weeks of shifting moods about their business prospects in China, Japanese executives are back

HOW TO USE: The following government bid opportunities are among the hundreds of such opport

A plan to raise the federal excise tax on foreign reinsurers, and two other proposals before a House

Aon Corp. of Chicago, the diversified insurance holding company, considers itself "well positioned"

CF OFFERS SOFTWARE TO HELP SHIPPERSMENLO PARK, Calif. - Consolidated Freightways Inc. is off

A federal agency judge said a Texas obstetrician let his fear of a malpractice lawsuit cloud his jud

When "K" Line and Southern Pacific Transportation Co. teamed up to bring double-stack trains to Mexi

Trans-Pacific carriers have established intermodal operations in Asia to varying degrees, depending

Canadian rail shippers back a government report saying a provision for confidential contracts is the

AMERICAN EXPRESS EXITS P/C BUSINESSAmerican Express Co. has agreed to swap its common share

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