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The West's financial leaders appear to have won a battle to curb wild currency swings but economists

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Year1/31 1/30 Ch

SPECTRA, ITALIAN FIRM SIGN MARKETING PACTHANOVER, Mass. - Spectra Pharmaceutical Services In

Bromon Aircraft Corp. said production of its BR-2000 turboprop commuter plane, to be assembled in Pu

Indo Product '89. Feb. 4-12. Hall of Nations Jakarta Fairgrounds. Indonesia's national products exhi

London insurers showed little signs of optimism about their prospects for the current year after rep

CANADA GDP INCREASED 0.1 PERCENT IN NOVEMBER '88Canada's seasonally adjusted gross domestic

NORFOLK SHIPBUILDING GETS CONVERSION PACTThe Maritime Administration has awarded a $42,892,4

THERE MAY BE A FEW STALWARTS around who fondly recall that brief period a generation ago when there

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Brazilian flagship airline Viacao Aerea Riograndense, Varig, seems to have the pole position for the

Production of plastics resins totaled 4.54 billion pounds in October, up approximately 8.9 percent f

The Justice Department's proposed settlement of its racketeering suit against the Teamsters union ne

Overseas coal exports through the Gulf of Mexico were up in 1988, despite a summer drought that brou

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Three maritime labor organizations are supporting International Shipholding Corp.'s planned $34 mill

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

The depreciation of the deutsche mark raised the danger in West Germany of imported inflation, Bunde

Tue., Jan. 31, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Alaskan shipping and commerce has been hit hard by the cold snap that has sent temperatures plunging

Intermodalism in the 1990s will be marked by on-dock train loading, a paperless exchange of document

For years, Steve Hatch ran trade shows that showed Japanese exporters how to ship billions of dollar

BAKER CALLS FOR CUTS IN CFC EMISSIONSSecretary of State James Baker called Monday for immedi

Matson Navigation Co., San Francisco, Calif., again wants the Federal Maritime Commission to resolve

The U.S. dollar turned mostly higher late Monday, in a seesaw market. Dealers were hard pressed to e

A German gave Russia communism, and now Soviet businessmen and academics are returning for a dose of

China's high-profile investment group has formed a joint venture with a U.S. company to manufacture

MARITRANS PARTNERS EXPANDS COASTAL FLEETMaritrans Partners L.P., a tugboat and barge operato

The head of Lakewood Industries Inc. believes his machinery problems will be over by the spring. He

Nationale-Nederlanden N.V. announced that its U.S. subsidiary, GeorgiaUS Corp., has entered into a d

The Port of Shanghai, China's biggest and most congested, needs some US$188 million for technical re

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China, with a third of industry already idle because of energy shortages, faces nationwide power cut

Striking longshore union leaders and top Italian politicians are scheduled to meet today in the hop

The Illinois International Port District, which operates the Port of Chicago, is expecting cargo vol

Following the December meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the oil market

THERE IS ONLY ONE THING WORSE than not getting what you want and that is getting it. That observatio

ICO COFFEE SHIPMENTS FAIL TO REACH QUOTALONDON - Producing members of the International Coff

The U.S.-China science and technology pact, which expires today, will likely remain in force until a

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