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A Texas graduate student who is a licensed customhouse broker won the first scholarship award presen

TNT Mailfast plans to offer several new services next year that will extend well beyond its traditio

The U.S. dollar declined Monday after the Federal Reserve intervened by selling dollars against deut

The current optimism among owners of dry bulk ships that carry grain, coal and ore ought to be tempe

The Port of Boston again handled its benchmark million tons of general cargo in 1988, but new figure

ANCHOR SAVINGS BANK (Hewlett, N.Y.) - Donald L. Thomas, 72, retired as chairman and chief executive,

Officials in China are calling for more investment in natural rubber, and going abroad to find it.

POLYESTER Hoechst Celanese Corp.'s Textile Fibers Group, New York, announced price increases

Strong markets for tankers and dry bulk carriers and new investment activity were foreseen by partic

The Coast Guard has replaced its HH-3A helicopters at Cape Cod Air Station with a shorter range HH-6

The United States requested formal consultations Monday with the European Community over a West Germ

Wed., March 16, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

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

Japanese government officials have decided to lower the duty on pork imports next month, and will an

When the Suzuki Samurai made its debut three years ago, it quickly became the hottest import in the

CONSUMER PRICE INDEX EXPECTED TO RISE 0.5 PERCENTWASHINGTON -The consumer price index rose i

A South Korean company is expected to form a joint-venture shipping company shortly with China, furt

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

Citing a report that found the Superfund program ripe for a contracting scandal, a House panel chair

RAIL WORKERS IN NY BARRED FROM STRIKINGNEW YORK - A federal judge has barred workers at four

Mar. 20, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

PHILLIPS 66 TO EXPAND TEXAS NEOHEXENE PLANTPASADENA, Texas - Phillips 66 Co. will add to its

Mar. 20, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures Market*PrevClose Hig

California Insurance Commissioner Roxani M. Gillespie opened the state's first ever public auto-rate

An empty New York sludge barge adrift for six weeks has been found off the North Carolina coast, but

Worldwide orders for new all-cargo air freighters will average more than $2 billion a year between n

TRUMP WITHDRAWS BID FOR EASTERN SHUTTLENEW YORK - Real-estate magnate Donald Trump said on M

Great Lakes congressmen gave their support to the Maritime Administration's policy allowing foreign-

America's life insurance companies, which manage hundreds of billions ofdollars in real esta

The Maryland Port Administration has awarded the last of six contracts to deepen the shipping channe

EC, EFTA MINISTERS DISCUSS CLOSER TIESBRUSSELS, Belgium - EC foreign ministers and ministers

MEXICO CITES GROWTH DESPITE SLUMP IN OILThe Mexican economy grew for the second consecutive

ROBOT IMPROVES SPEED, SAFETY OF AIDS TESTINGA Singapore company has unveiled a robot that pr

HUNGARY, UNIONS AIR STRIKE LAW REVISIONBUDAPEST, Hungary - Government and union officials Mo

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Growth in Asia's energy demand could spark development of the enormous reserves of natural gas from

AMERICAN PRESIDENT COS. (Oakland, Calif.) - Michael Diaz was appointed president of American Preside

Dockworkers in Genoa are bent on continuing the two-month-old port strike, in spite of an agreement

A three-way joint venture is investing M$150 million (US$58 million) in Malaysia's first plant to pr

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., owner of P&O Containers and the Port of Felixstowe, repo