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Dec. 7 Baltic International Freight Futures Exchangeprev.Close High Low

Two former presidents face a Dec. 20 runoff in a fight to lead New Orleans' largest International Lo

Consumer Credit Rose $3.7 Billion in OctoberWASHINGTON - U.S. consumers took on $3.739 billi

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

Flying Tiger Offers W. German-US ServiceFlying Tiger Line Inc. has inaugurated direct servic

Chevron Chemical Co. and Nomura Jimusho Inc. of Japan purchased shares of Karonite Chemical Co. prev

Newmont Mining Corp. said it began discussions in Australia to explore the possible sale of part or

The Bureau of Land Management is not disputing a House report that says hundreds of landfills on BLM

Fla. Rail Project Hires Boston Firm for StudyDEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. - A Boston company specia

The war memorial in Pearl Harbor stands as the symbol of an attack that brought both immediate fear

Ex-Philippine Official, J. Ongpin, Found DeadMANILA, Philippines - Former Finance Secretary

When Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meets with President Reagan in Washington this week, a key ques

The Federal Labor Relations Authority will file at least two complaints against the Federal Aviation

The average price of gasoline fell almost a penny during the past two weeks to just over a dollar a

Young movers and shakers may find upward mobility a lot easier thanks to a new van making moves for

Henry Kaufman, managing director and member of the executive committee in charge of Salomon Brothers

The United States and Canada reached agreement on the final text of the bilateral trade accord betwe

United Express Airlines will begin offering six daily passenger flights next week between Portland,

Massachusetts may be offering the best package of financial incentives to lure Sematech, but the sta

Rail shippers could face delays in the Canadian Northwest due to the closure of the New Westminster

U.S. companies have shown little interest in a new Taiwanese program that makes it easier to establi

U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson called for the reform of European Community, Japanese

The Massachusetts attorney general submitted a proposal to the state insurance division Monday to ra

No Safe Level in Meat For Drug, Panel SaysAny trace of the antibiotic drug chloramphenicol i

The Oct. 19 stock market crash will shrivel the year-end bonuses paid to investment bankers but isn'

New Solution Sought To EC Budget WoesFRANKFURT, West Germany - West Germany is working on a

American Mutual Clipped in Calif.The state insurance department ordered American Mutual Rein

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' failure to enforce its production quotas in the p

Navistar Notes Big TurnaroundNavistar International Corp. reported net income of $54.4 milli

U.S. Department of Agriculture officials are gathering ammunition to harpoon a proposed fiscal 1988

The U.S. dollar rose against major foreign currencies Monday on the market's new sense that Washingt

Reichhold Raises Latex PricesDOVER, Del. - The emulsion polymers division of Reichhold Chemi

Teamsters Ratify Pact With SouthwestThe Teamsters union has ratified a new three-year contra

The number of hours worked by longshoremen in the port of Baltimore declined almost 9 percent in the

The head of West Germany's central bank defended the government's new plan to stimulate the nation's

Taiwan Excludes US From Fruit Import BanTAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan suspended fruit imports from

Efforts by Taiwan to stanch counterfeiting of brand-name goods have been moderately successful despi

There's no better time than now to try to crack the Japanese market, a banker told California export

Maryland International Trade Conference. Dec. 8. Baltimore Convention Center. Contact Linda Jordan a

A wide variety of major projects around the world have established Combustion Engineering as a globa