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Venezuela Covets US InvestmentsCARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela plans to seek about US$3 billi

Japanese Ambassador Nobuo Matsunaga tried on a pair of U.S. shoes, pronounced them good and vowed to

Poland's Communist leadership, emboldened by the program of Kremlin leaderMikhail Gorbachev

The House made the Democratic plan its champion budget, after sending President Reagan's request cra

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

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

Gelco Completes Sale Of UK OperationGelco Corp. has signed a contract for the previously ann

Wilh. Wilhelmsen Ltd., after suffering through several dismal and depressing months, said it secured

A new round-the-world containership line will make the port of Oakland its first inbound call, boost

The affiliation of the New York Futures Exchange and New York Cotton Exchange will create a financia

A quarterly loss of $294 million is threatening New York State Electric & Gas Corp.'s dividend, whic

Automobile Alarm Detects MovementA Hong Kong-based company came up with an automobile access

The man who bucked presidential advisers and won President Reagan's endorsement of catastrophic acut

Call it a multimillion-dollar calculated risk that failed. Last year U.S. Customs Service ag

GE to Supply Boeing With Fan EngineBoeing Co. said it has selected General Electric Co.'s ne

President Jose Sarney created a special commission to renegotiate Brazil's $108 billion foreign debt

Mich. May Form Pool For Carnival IndustryLANSING, Mich. - Carnivals in the state can expect

An oil analyst says he is "generally bullish" on the U.S. oil and gas industry "unless we have major

Arco said it will start announcing significant changes in branded-gasoline prices to its retail deal

Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association annual convention, April 10-15, Westin La Paloma, Tucson, Ar

ICC Defines Policy On Insurance FilingsThe Interstate Commerce Commission issued a policy st

Flying in the face of gloomy assessments from several West German economic research institutes, a le

A member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee today will attempt to tighten the use of foreign-aid

Keystone Shipping Co. of Philadelphia asked the Maritime Administration for permission to sell its 1

The port of Oakland might spend $90 million to expand its marine terminals in the next two years, a

Seeking to avoid both external and internal problems, South Korea is trying to keep the country's ba

The Senate Finance Committee probably will postpone action on its broad ranging trade bill until aft

Top Stories Good quantities of Canadian grain moving out of Thunder Bay into the St. Lawrenc

Australian Dockers End 5-Day BoycottSYDNEY, Australia - Australian dockworkers have lifted t

The U.S. government accepted the offer of a Liberian corporation to buy three World War II merchant

Calif. Company Lands Toshiba ContractPALO ALTO, Calif. - Varian Associates Inc. said it rece

American businessmen who met with President Reagan said they are optimistic the U.S.-Canadian free t

A top state health official agrees with a coalition of labor leaders who say the state office that p

April 8, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

For more than 40 years, the Hugoton gas field has been one of the most productive in Oklahoma, yield

Thailand, Malaysia Hope to Finalize PactThai and Malaysian government officials will meet ne

The American Association of Port Authorities is seeking a new chief executive officer to replace Don

Bundesbank President Karl Otto Poehl said West Germany has done more than either the United States o

World container traffic volumes are forecast to grow rapidly between now and 1990, thanks largely to

The Maritime Administration says a new, two-volume report covering the effects of a damaged ship's p