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Air Cargo Move Seen To Surface TransportSPRINGFIELD GARDENS, N.Y. - Julius B Kupersmit, pres

MBIA Inc. said it will close its first deal this week as a new municipal bond insurer. The d

Japan's electronics industry showed little surprise at Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.'s recent r

Orders booked last November for new West German machines were 8 percent below the level a year befor

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

The Federal Maritime Commission's first meeting of the new year, scheduled for Wednesday will be clo

The Farmers Home Administration's loan program to help hard-pressed farmers stay in business will co

Charles A. Lynch, the new president and chief executive of DHL Corp., says the privately held air ex

Prices of crude oil were quoted about 10 cents a barrel higher on the European spot market at the cl

Burger King Installing Cogeneration SystemsAmerican Private Power Inc., a cogeneration proje

Atlantic Xpress' Container Trader will be several days late in arriving in Charleston, S.C., but the

Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., the giant British conglomerate, agreed to purchase the

Key economic development leaders in Washington state highlighted the state's growing ties with Pacif

The European Community's farm policy, initially designed to stabilize the agriculture market and gua

American Trucking Associations is expected to reaffirm its longtime support of rate regulation and c

New York Sen. Alfonse D'Amato is not happy with a General Accounting Office report on the Shoreham n

Damon Biotech Inc. signed an agreement with a leading Japanese pharmaceutical firm for the commercia

MMFG Buys FiberglassCompanyBRISTOL, Va. - Morrison Molded Fiber Glass Co., a subsidi

Friday, January 9, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Robert M. Hope, who has served the Alabama State Docks for 35 years, has been fired as director and

Twenty-nine of the world's major containership operators have asked the Federal Maritime Commission

GENERAL NEWS Favorable economic data don't appease economists. Page 3AFINANCIALThe

The Sony Corp. of America has agreed to pay the federal government $1.75 million for failing to prov

Morton Thiokol Names HaracTo Sales PostMorton Thiokol Inc. named Sidney Harac intern

Pratt & Whitney has announced that nearly 2,000 salaried workers in four states have agreed to early

The chairman of the National Petroleum Council, an advisory group to the president and Congress mad

The prospects of an improved export picture for U.S. farmers is bleak, agriculture officials say, un

Although P-I-E Nationwide Inc. claims to have developed the industry's first electronic bill of ladi

Officials from the world's eight leading coffee exporting countries decided Friday to call a full me

The West German railroad is losing millions of marks because of the French rail strike that began D

Foreign capital flowing into West Germany last November set a record monthly high, according to the

Reeves Transportation Buys Carpet ServicesPRESTON, Md. - Preston Corp.'s Reeves Transportati

The Flying Tiger Line continues its battle to prevent Cargolux Airlines International from beginning

Illinois Central Gulf Debt Ratings ConfirmedMoody's Investors Service confirmed the debt rat

Argentine farmers in 1986-87 planted 3.4 percent less corn at 3.493 million hectares and 23 percent

A study group of the American Bar Association recommends changes in tort law to deal with the crisis

Health Insurance WASHINGTON - The new chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Commi

Mexico Renews Pact For Oil Sales to IsraelMexico renewed its contract to sell 40,000 barrels

Greater confidentiality in service contracts with ocean carriers will be a major goal of shippers -

The New York State Bar Association, in a letter last Friday to Gov. Mario Cuomo and state legislator