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Saudi Basic Industries Corp. - Sabic - will avoid disrupting pricing levels in the Japanese market f

Major Japanese steamship lines are turning landlord as they are being forced to direct more of their

The Maine Maritime Academy next September will become the nation's first such school to diversify it

IC Industries Inc. moved a step closer to exiting the transportation business, completing the sale o

UGI Corp.'s AmeriGas Industrial Gases subsidiary will supply 100,000 cubic feet an hour of gaseous n

An Australian maritime union has called for an investigation into the occupational health and safety

Hydrogen Peroxide demand growth in the United States will grow 14 percent in 1987 to 365 million pou

Dainippon Ink & Chemicals Inc. said it would delay its $473 million hostile bid for Reichhold Chemic

Dow Corning Corp. has announced plans for a $27 million research center to develop new silicone prod

G.C. Hanford Manufacturing Co. plans a $5 million expansion of a facility that produces penicillin p

Thu., July 9, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

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

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

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

Debt-burdened Third World countries may find it harder to draw more foreign income as the use of the

The government will formally lift many foreign exchange controls next Wednesday in a bid to cut its

Stocks declined on profit-taking late Thursday, after trading aimlessly for most of the session.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has started its largest investigation ever into the nation's

A top European Community official Thursday warned that Japan's failure to open its capital markets

The demand for new and more innovative trade financing options probably will continue for several ye

A consensus for a new economic reform program is building in Mexico, however, it will require substa

Elliott Gibbons says he tried to earn money and spread holiday cheer last Christmas by playing class

Wells Fargo Offers Gold-Linked CDSAN FRANCISCO - Wells Fargo Bank unveiled an unprecedented

Canada's BC Rail Closer to ShutdownVANCOUVER, British Columbia - Provincially-owned BC Rail,

Two railroad tankers overturned near a railroad yard, and officials evacuated hundreds of nearby res

Burlington Northern Inc. reported second quarter earnings of $74 million, or 99 cents a share, compa

Despite operating at below half capacity, shipping on the St. Lawrence Seaway for the first half of

A U.S.-owned supertanker was hit by rockets and machine gun fire in the Persian Gulf as Congress mov

For the week ended June 27 total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

Kuwait broadened its two-week-old drive beyond the Arab world Thursday in quest of support for shipp

Iran warned the United States Thursday not to go ahead with reflagging Kuwaiti tankers to protect th

The New Orleans Steamship Association, whipped in a legislative battle over pilotage fees, is regrou

Iran has built copies of potent missiles it seized from Iraq last year, the commander of the Revolut

The United States failed to rally the support of other members of the United Nations Security Counci

Air France, the French state-controlled airline, chalked up excellent results during the first half

Pan Am Corp. said it will soon submit a formal application to the Allied Civil Air Attaches for comb

Flying Tiger to Lease 747 from GPA GroupFlying Tiger Line Inc. signed a long-term lease agre

It is hardly a coincidence that when terrorism, political or social disorder overseas erupts and cla

Volvo GM to Build Va. Import FacilityGREENSBORO, N.C. - Volvo GM Heavy Truck Corp. said it i

A Delta Air Lines jet with equipment trouble drifted off course and passed close enough to a Contine