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Himont Inc. announced that its board of directors approved construction of two plants to produce a v

Wed., March 22, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

Some timber now being exported would be reserved for Washington state mills to cut into export lumbe

JAPAN ANNOUNCES RISE IN ITS TRADE SURPLUSJapan had a $1.68 billion customs-cleared trade sur

Orders received by U.S. factories for such expensive items as cars, aircraft and steel fell 3.6 perc

Ludmilla Sharova has lived in this picturesque town on the sloping banks of the River Istra for all

The Interstate Commerce Commission has decided to force the nation's railroads to pass on to their s

The Maritime Administration has released updated versions of two annual statistical reports.

Sea-Land Service Inc. and Hemisphere Navigation Co. want the Federal MaritimeCommission to d

A joint venture between Stake Technology Ltd. and the Syndicate of Wood Producers of the Lower Saint

NEW LIMITS URGED ON PESTICIDE EXPORTSThe US government should step up efforts to curtail the

R. Sean Lapp has resigned as director of Elders IFFO to form a new international futures and options

Michigan's prime agricultural products are being promoted as Michigan Premium through a new state pr

Weather patterns in the hard red winter wheat areas, Kansas in particular, are set to dictate near-t

JAPANESE MARKET OKS 24 FOREIGN TRADERSTOKYO - The Tokyo Commodity Exchange for Industry appr

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

Strong export demand has made manufacturers nationwide generally optimistic about near-term producti

William G. Lowrie was named executive vice president of Amoco Oil Co., effective April 1. Am

The Bush administration now believes the economy will probably be in "a moderate slowdown" this summ

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1640 (Mar. 22, 1989) Previous day - 1644 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Members of a joint task force examining the U.S.-European Community dispute over trade in meat from

Sir Leon Brittan, European Community commissioner for competition policy andfinancial instit

A worldwide shortage of well-trained and affordable sailors is becoming the major problem for compan

IBM, TOSHIBA DEVELOP DISPLAY FOR COMPUTERSInternational Business Machines Corp. has said it

CHASE SECURITIES INC. (New York ) - Christopher R. Bovich was named vice president and head of munic

The Sierra Club has blamed toxic chemical fallout from the skies for increased deaths, deformities a

West Germany's Hoechst AG said Wednesday that 1988 earnings jumped 31.5 percent to a record 4.09 bil

Production of most major chemicals increased in Canada during 1988, according to data from the feder

Some of the world's most indebted nations are taking a lesson from their bankers and dealing in futu

The five Federal Reserve districts in the MidAmerica region are reporting steady and solid growth in

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of Commerce , U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, Room HCHB

Electricity sales increased 4.9 percent in 1988, pushed up by extreme weather and continued expansio

Primary inventories of gasoline were virtually unchanged and distillate fuel declined during the wee

The company that lost a bitter trademark dispute in a federal appeals court is a futuristic computer

Harland & Wolff PLC, one of the most famous names in shipbuilding, has been saved from closure by a

Indonesia, a vast archipelago of nearly 200 million people, is diversifying its exports away from th

An already shaky International Cocoa Agreement was dealt another body blow last week when a meeting

Electronic data interchange has become the apple of the eye for one of the nation's leading computer

The following prices were supplied by Merrill Lynch, New York. Ranges are in cents per dollar of the