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Fruehauf to Offer Debt SecuritiesFruehauf Holdings Inc. filed with the Securities and Exchan

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

Gorbachev in India MOSCOW - Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev left Moscow for a visit to In

Trucking analysts believe a dissident Leaseway Transportation Corp. shareholder will have trouble pr

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

The West German economy will grow at a real, price-adjusted rate of 2.5 percent in the course of 198

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

Italy, Britain and Greece got the biggest shares of the 2.5 billion European Currency Units (about $

Brazil's October trade figures were the worst in four years, constituting a serious setback in Braz

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

Black labor leaders still favor U.S. corporate disinvestment from South Africa, but they are concern

McLean Industries Inc. and two of its subsidiaries, United States Lines Inc. and United States Lines

Volkswagen and Ford confirmed here the formation of a $4.5 billion international joint venture holdi

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

Industrial production was up 26.9 percent for the first 10 months of the year for foreign joint-vent

Company Agrees to Buy Unisys Corp. OperationsA company formed by New York-based Clayton & Du

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

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

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

Canadian exporters of softwood lumber are upset about the latest attempt by Canada's government to a

The harshness of Brasilia's new adjustments to its nine-month-old economic stabilization plan, as we

European Community foreign ministers Monday indicated they want to prevent a flood of petrochemical

Sears in Agreement CHICAGO - Sears, Roebuck and Co. and Hagemeyer NV, a general trading comp

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

The tone of the Uruguay round of multilateral trade talks will be determined by trading nations' wi

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

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

Business executives expect that the team of economics ministers in the Philippines are likely to re

Private sector direct investment abroad by Japan is rapidly approaching an overall total of $130 bil

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

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange intends to seek approval to revise margining procedures for its opti

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

China will harvest 390 million metric tons of grain this year, up 10 million metric tons from last y

Indian wheat exports during fiscal 1985-86 (April-March) totaled 379,350 metric tons compared with 3

The hog industry is betting a big bankroll that it can cash in on "chicken fatigue." An adve

The volume of British-owned merchant shipping tonnage operating on overseas registers will exceed th

Texas oilman Jack F. Grimm signed a letter of intent to hire a French deep- sea submarine to explore

The president of a U.N. committee on shipping called Friday for action to resolve the general crisis

Thai Maize Exports Fell in 9-Month PeriodThai maize exports rose 54.3 percent in January-Oct