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Owen Bieber, United Auto Workers union president, is lending his presence to efforts to organize a N

U.S. tax laws put U.S. multinational corporations at a disadvantage in doing business overseas, acco

International Business Machines Corp. posted a 50 percent jump in its fourth quarter profit Tuesday

Steel production rose to 1.859 million tons in the week ended Jan. 16, an increase of 3.8 percent fr

AIR CARGO Pan Am offers interline cargo service on its Eastbound flights from Honolulu. 5BA

Most LIPA Spending Goes for Legal FeesALBANY, N.Y. - The Long Island Power Authority, set up

OPEC is walking a shaky "pricing tightrope," Petroleum Intelligence Weekly reported Tuesday.

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

More than a score of interested Philippine parties, some thought to have foreign backers, attended a

Olin Boosts Prices Of Sodium ChloriteSTAMFORD, Conn. Olin Corp. is increasing its off-list

Senator Line and the port of Wilmington make a great match - one that should benefit the carrier, th

Traffic moving through the port of Duluth in 1987 increased 7.3 million tons over the prior year.

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

Traders of developing country debt are waiting for clarification of the accounting procedures to be

A high-ranking Vietnamese economist has announced that his country's new foreign investment code is

A COMPLETE GENTLEMAN is how Transportation Department officials described Secretary James Burnley's

The port of San Francisco has named Vello Kiisk as its acting executive director. Mr. Kiisk,

Olympia & York Developments Ltd. is fast becoming the major figure in the shadows as the drama invol

NY College Alumni Meet Today in San FranciscoThe West Coast chapter of the New York Maritime

New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo called the U.S.-Canada free trade pact "a very good agreement for the C

The author of a new state law that makes it harder for injured consumers to successfully sue the man

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For the first time, Australian investment in the United States exceeds U.S. investment in Australia.

Foreign marine underwriters would gain an unfair competitive advantage over their U.S. counterparts

Major corporations are relying on short-term financing and a variety of other techniques to reduce t

The U.S. Forest Service has postponed more than one-third of the 1988 timber sales proposed in North

There will be a coal strike. There won't be a coal strike. No one is saying for sure, but talk in th

Coastal Corp., Houston, wants to build a $288 million interstate pipeline that would bring up to 500

Halliburton Co. said that its Brown & Root (U.K.) Ltd. affiliate, and Saipem (U.K.) Ltd. formed Euro

A reputed Mafia "soldier," a co-defendant with a longshoremen's union leader in a federal racketeeri

Competitive pressures on both the wine and spirits industry and ocean carriers in the trans-Atlantic

A life insurance trade group filed suit Friday in Suffolk Superior Court here seeking to block imple

The Alliance of American Insurers believes that there are enough votes in the House Energy and Comme

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is bird watching again. "Every year, from January through

Thousand-story skyscrapers and a return of the blimp, rationed medical care and sale of "tuition fut

The Interstate Commerce Commission rejected a request from railroad labor that it void its approval

The U.S. Department of Agriculture named Wayne Sharp, a career foreign service officer with the Fore

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

Farmers planted 48.3 million acres of winter wheat last fall for harvest later this year, a 1 percen

January 15, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallo