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The Canadian area of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union has gone to court to

Malaysian Tin Output Rose in SeptemberMalaysian tin production in September totaled 2,559 me

As it became apparent that United States Lines' heavy losses and huge debt would compel its owners t

A major insurance group covering professional and college athletes will write no new policies on foo

As the port of Tacoma's budget director revealed a new 30-acre container terminal on the drawing boa

Carbide Assets Seen Enough to Meet ClaimsNEW DELHI, India - A government official told parli

A group seeking at least partial deregulation of trucking within Washington state is advocating majo

Estaleiros Navais de Lisboa, better known under its acronym, Lisnave, and one of the largest ship re

Indonesia's transformation from the world's biggest rice importer to a surplus producer has created

King Fahd of Saudi Arabia indicated his desert kingdom was not willing to reduce its OPEC-decreed oi

Monday, Nov. 24, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Northern Air AnnouncesNew PositionNorthern Air Freight Inc. named John S. Diefendorf

Third Rhine Spill AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The third major chemical spill in the Rhine river

The Pacific Rim remains an attractive and growing trading partner for the West Coast, but each natio

Everything appears perfectly normal here in the capital of North Korea after the recent flurry of ru

Citrus fruit production in 1986-87 is estimated at higher levels than previous season, the Organizat

Uniroyal Chemical Co. and Enichem Elastomeri SpA (a subsidiary of Enichem SpA) announced an agreemen

Low crude oil prices, will not last, and the United States should brace itself for an "oil price sho

Snamprogetti, the petroleum engineering company belonging to ENI, the Italian state energy group, wa

Fed May Allow Banks To Invest in Real EstateWASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve proposed allowi

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

Railroad traffic should remain flat overall next year although slow growth is expected for some comm

The government of Malaysia appears to be following the lead of equally hard- pressed neighbor Indone

China wants more foreign investment in industries that could be expected to earn foreign exchange.

Sea-Land Corp. introduced a new data communications link Monday that it said will allow importers an

International Longshoremen's Association locals in Philadelphia were voting Monday on a tentative ag

Dow Chemical U.S.A. and CommTech International agreed to jointly develop PBZ, a new class of ultra h

The annual rate of production of marketable phosphate rock in September 1986 was 42.5 million metri

New Service Monitors Japanese DevelopmentsCUPERTINO, Calif. - The first on-line information

Electric companies didn't give the United States nuclear power. Government research gave the techno

Pengo Industries Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, said it completed the sale of its oil tool division assets

Fluor Unit to Build Cogeneration PlantIRVINE, Calif. - A unit of Fluor Corp. said it has bee

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

Nearly three quarters of the world's 889 million illiterates live in Asia, and nations in the area

Within little more than a year, the United States may have a radically different trade classificatio

Business leaders here predict the withdrawal of Britain's Barclays Bank couldshift the forei

Alexander & Alexander Services Inc., New York-based broker, is forming a risk retention group to spe

BANKINGSouth African business executives term Barclays Bank's pullout from South Africa a se

The following index charts weekly changes in motor carrier tonnage originatingfrom 49 produc

Seed exports have sprouted into a huge business, with roots extending into many countries seeking to