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Iraq was France's primary oil supplier in November, during a successful boycott of oil from Iran, fo

Prices for regular unleaded gasoline at self-service pumps in California have dropped an average of

Despite gloomy prospects for the U.S oil industry in 1988, Phillips Petroleum Co. said that it will

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The government said Monday that an oil spill that killed thousands of birds

The erstwhile hometown airline Presidential Airways has once again felt the competitive presence of

Coast Guard Finalizing Budget-Cutting PlansCoast Guard Commandant Paul A. Yost has indicated

Longshoremen on the Pacific Northwest docks are back at work this week after walking off the job for

An arbitrator in the dispute between Mack Trucks Inc. and the United Auto Workers extended a contest

Longshoremen at the port of Montreal have ceased their rotating walkouts following the appointment o

Burnham Service Corp.'s fourth quarter earnings fell to $704,000, or 15 cents a share, from $1.3 mil

An 80-year-old railcar factory being closed by Paccar Inc. could be replaced with a highly automated

1390.5 (Jan. 19) Previous day - 1386.5 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

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Baytree Investors Inc. expects to make a formal tender offer this week to acquire all outstanding st

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

A funeral Mass was held Monday for Bernard S. "Ted" Costello, a prominent ship's agency executive, w

The European Community Commission's competition directorate has expressed doubts about the acceptabi

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

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

New Jersey motorists already pay the nation's highest average insurance rates and their automobile p

Cisbaclub, the shipbrokers' and agents' insurance mutual, announced Tuesday the expansion of its cov

Health insurers have to start talking with health-care providers if they want to contain medical cos

The premise behind newly enacted pension law is that employers should never make promises they canno

The military government of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida said it will privatize all or part of 96 state-own

The federal government Tuesday officially made seven states finalists in the race for the multibilli

The U.S. trade picture will improve in 1988, high-technology companies are in for their best year in

Japan's overall trade surplus in December soared to nearly $9 billion, aided by a surplus with the U

The Japanese government since July 1985 has revised 84 regulations governing standards, certificatio

The prosecution Tuesday demanded one-year prison terms for two former executives of Toshiba Machine

West Germany Looks For Economic GrowthFRANKFURT, West Germany - Strong private demand will c

The Bank of Japan has agreed to extend special import financing facilities to the Japanese subsidiar

Venezuela, Alcoa Plan Big Aluminum PlantCARACAS, Venezuela - The Venezuelan Guyana Corp., kn

Agriculture ministers of the European Community opened a second day of talks Tuesday on a package of

Sports and Leisure '88 Scheduled for MarchThe Japan External Trade Organization is sponsorin

British soldiers in the Falklands Islands, Dutch suburbanites and Americans in New England and Minne

The Reagan administration is close to announcing trade reprisals against Brazil for its computer sof

It was another year of feast or famine in the heavy truck industry, proving once again that motor ca

Nowhere does the name of LTV Corp. appear. But as pension plan analysts study the new pensio

What does it mean when a guy who always buys one bag of dog food every Thursday suddenly buys 10 bag

The Henley Group Inc. Tuesday launched a proxy fight to gain seats on the board of directors of the