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New claims for state unemployment insurance benefits were made by 341,000 people during the week end

The U.S. dollar rose to a high for the week Friday in quiet trading. Analysts said the dolla

Five Venezuelan public companies plan to pay $1.3 billion of refinanced debt ahead of schedule, the

Bankers and traders are still uncertain what the real impact will be when the government eases forei

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

Purolator Courier Corp. has begun hitting the road to sell its two-day or less regional ground deliv

The international environmental organization Greenpeace has launched a campaign to oppose nuclear na

July 10 Baltic International Freight Futures ExchangePrev.Bid Ask High

The Tennessee Valley Authority is getting ready to issue a solicitation for bids on a contract to su

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

Norway is amending its criminal code to impose tougher penalties on illegal exports of high technolo

Japan posted an unadjusted trade surplus of $6.608 billion in June, down from $7.358 billion a year

The minister of international trade and industry will go to Washington to try to defuse tension over

More than 170 years after Eliphalet Remington made his first flintlock rifle on a frontier forge, th

Representatives of Japan and the European Community ended two days of trade talks at the weekend at

Charles I. Hiltzheimer, former president and chief executive officer of McLean Industries, parent of

Jane's Defense Weekly says Iran has built up its navy to unprecedented strength in response to U.S.

United Airlines and three major European airlines said Friday they will invest $120 million to creat

LTV Steel Co. has filed an application in federal bankruptcy court for approval of an agreement that

Suspended 30 feet in the air in a metal and wood basket above a Navy ship, Ford Pulley said he felt

Heavy truck sales growth is still climbing at midpoint in a year that has surprised both analysts an

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

Appointments Made To Fla. HMO BoardTALLAHASSEE, Fla.- State Insurance Commissioner Bill Gunt

Mobil Exploration China said H.R. Taylor, a vice president, will head the company's office that open

Twelve years after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, President Eisenhower dedicated th

US and Sweden Sign Agreement on CustomsThe United States and Sweden plan to help each other

Cocoa-Trading Nations Meet Today in LondonTalks beginning today in London among cocoa-tradin

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

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

The deepwater port of Sept-Iles, 550 miles from Montreal on the north shore of the St. Lawrence Rive

The Interstate Commerce Commission granted rate relief to a railroad shipper using the agency's new

THOUGHTS WHILE TARMACCED; waiting for the plane to move. A new word has entered the lexicon,

Raymond A. Stewart resigned as president of Yellow Freight System Inc., the nation's largest general

Sea-Land Service Inc., a major container shipping company, has altered its proposal to buy ships and

Florida Gas Completes Expansion of PipelineFlorida Gas Transmission Co. completed a 100 mill

Cogeneration Project Gains Calif. ApprovalSACRAMENTO, Calif. - The California Energy Commiss

Imports by debtor nations between 1980 and 1985 would have been $110 billion higher were it not for

Make way, Mazda. Head for the hills, Honda. The Russians want to roll on U.S. highways. Sudd

Harmonized System Training Course. Series of three-day courses (running July through December) spons

Banks Allow Bolivia To Repurchase DebtBank of America announced Friday that commercial bank