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The freight futures market reversed course and turned sharply downward last week, following several

The American Trucking Association has finalized the sale of its trucking software to Bluebird System

Aided by radio-activated toll tags, motorists may soon be speeding past toll booths if an experiment

1490 (Dec. 2, 1988) Previous day - 1501 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

HENKEL HIKES COST OF PHOTOMER LINEAMBLER, Pa. - Henkel Corp.'s Coating Chemicals business ha

Eli Lilly & Co. has acquired Devices for Vascular Intervention Inc., a developer and manufacturer of

Brazil's largest shipyard, Verolme, is undergoing an ownership shuffle and gaining a welcome infusio

US FACTORY ORDERS ROSE 1.6 PERCENT IN OCTOBERNew orders to U.S. factories for manufactured g

Glaverbel of Belgium and Schott Glaswerke of West Germany are planning to create a joint venture to

You may not need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, but transportation, agriculture and

U.S. securities house Merrill Lynch predicts that the 10 major Asian economies will experience avera

JAMES, JAPAN'S GINSEN AGREE TO COOPERATEFred. S. James, America's fourth largest insurance b

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index moved higher last week, continuing its advance of the

Japan's largest ketchup maker plans to build a $17 million plant that will turn tomato paste into ke

AMERICAN PRESIDENT COS. (Oakland, Calif.) - J. Douglass Coates was promoted to president of American

CUSTOMS ALLEGES FIRM HAD ILLEGAL IRANIAN PACTALEXANDRIA, Virginia - Customs officials have s

China is lowering rice exports to Hong Kong this month by 9,200 metric tons, a local Chinese daily,

Plans to make the European railroad system more competitive were approved by Transport Ministers fro

The European Free Trade Association and the European Community finalized two agreements last week th

The Asian Pacific time zone will be the growth area of the 1990s for the futures industry, and the S

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Year12/2 12/1 Chan

PETROLEOS DE VENEZUELA PLANS NEW US VENTUREUnocal Corp. and Petroleos de Venezuela SA, Venez

Computer viruses seem to be everywhere lately - even on the cover of Time Magazine - and that is goo

Recovery of the Philippine economy is gaining momentum, with growth in the first nine months of the

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent)is as f

PRICES INCREASED FOR CURING AGENTSRohm & Hass Co. will increase prices on its curing agents

Plans by local airports to charge higher landing fees may be the most effective way to reduce airpor

The state Supreme Court on Wednesday put off action for at least a week on insurance company lawsuit

WHAT IT IS: Tax law changes this year were packaged in a law drafted mainly to make so-called techni

MONEY? POWER? PROMOTIONS? A bigger apartment? No, Japanese male office workers dream most of

Poland plans to start introducing free currency trading next year, ending a ban that has existed sin

7th Annual Container Technology Conference, Dec. 5-7. Kensington Exhibition Center, London, England.

During one week in October, inspectors for the New York state Department of Transportation stopped 8

ABANDONMENT BY ANY OTHER NAME is . . . With all the line sales and abandonments going on thr

LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND POWER (Los Angeles) - Eldon A. Cotton was appointed assistant ge

Recent heavy rains are helping to bring export coal barging conditions on the Mississippi River back

The European Community Commission has asked EC states to recognize each other's driver's licenses, e

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient, bronze age port on the Israeli coast with a warehouse stoc

TRADE IMPROVEMENT WAS STYMIED in the third quarter, economist Donald Ratajczak said after the Commer

The incoming U.S. administration appears poised for a hard line on the issue of trade and developmen