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Two stories about the Panama Canal that appeared in The Journal of Commerce during the past two week

* Howard Simon - Simon Says 4A * A.N.R. Robinson - Europe's Threat to the Caribbean 6A* Ljub

General Motors Corp. is counting on a new line of sleek, plastic-bodied minivans to help it gain a b

Port of New York tugboat workers who endured a nine-month strike last year are now faced with renewe

The New York Mercantile Exchange's plans to place its contracts on an electronic, 24-hour trading ne

A new system for classifying all goods entering and leaving the United States is causing fewer probl

Union des Assurances de Paris, the largest French insurer, and Banque Nationale de Paris, will set u

AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK (New York) - Ronald Gironta, Shirley Goldlust, Lynne Miller and Donna Nelson

Inventories of gasoline and distillate fuel increased during the week ending Dec. 30, 1988, as did U

U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., introduced two bills Wednesday designed to impede the sale of foreig

BLUE STAR LINE INC. (San Francisco) - David Whene was named operations manager for this ship line th

Jan. 5, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange*PrevClose High L

GE Electrical Distribution & Control Co., a subsidiary of General Electric Co., and Fuji Electric Co

MELVIN BELLI, the San Francisco lawyer representing some of the Pan Am crash victims' survivors, com

Premium rates for the federal government's flood insurance program likely will remain stable for the

Driven by heavy underwriting losses in automobile insurance, profitability in Canada's property/casu

Bankers Trust New York Corp. has agreed to take a 49 percent stake in French stockbroker Didier Phil

From Cancun's white sands to Acapulco's glitzy discos, Mexico intends to pour as much as $10 billion

The U.S. banking system has reduced its exposure to Third World lending to the extent that it can de

JUDGE CONTINUES STAY ON DREXEL-FUNDED BIDA federal judge, citing concerns about Drexel Burnh

ATLANTIC RICHFIELD CO. SETS UP GAS SALES UNITAtlantic Richfield Co., which has seen natural

Jan. 5, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

After falling 41 percent in 1987, U.S. crude oil production declined another 2.3 percent in 1988, ac

Since Jan. 1, the ban on exports of Alaska North Slope crude oil has been partially lifted, and as m

BRITISH RULES RESTRICT SOME CHEMICAL EXPORTSBritish companies are unlikely sources for chemi

TRANSPORTATION TABLE TO MEET IN WASHINGTONThe outlook for 1989 in the railroad, trucking and

Ford Motor Co. already provides 14 percent of the West's passenger cars, but now the automaker would

The prospect of 100 percent duties on U.S. walnuts and dried fruit imported into the European Commun

Higher volumes of containers filled with Christmas goods from Asia and strong exports on both the At

Car rental companies have been hard put to come up with the kind of glamourousattention-getting prom

A decision by the Federal Reserve Board to allow U.S. banks to accept foreign currency deposits star

WHEN TALKS ON MERGING precious metal futures operations broke off between the New York Mercantile Ex

Computer Graphics: Assessment and Forecast, Jan. 11-13. Sheraton Grand on Harbor Island, San Diego,

The chemical industry trade association in the United States is working closely with other countries

The number of applications for new drug approvals is doubling every year, a pace that threatens to c

The Justice Department urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an appeal from ocean carriers and long

A federal appeals court, ruling in a trademark-infringement case, Thursday spared Toyota Motor Corp.

ALCAN BUYS ASSETS OF JARL EXTRUSIONSAlcan Aluminum Corp., the U.S. subsidiary of Canada's le

Imagine a stack of French toast piled halfway to the moon. Or enough sandwiches to circle th

The prime rate is expected to be increased soon, perhaps today, if the U.S. employment data show str