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Foreign merchant banks are eagerly waiting for Taiwan's manufacturers to line up for advice on overs

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

The way the Virginia Port Authority sees it, its $10 million gamble is working. The Port of

OCEAN SHIPPER GROUP PLANS SEPT. 7 SUMMITWASHINGTON - The Agriculture Ocean Transportation Co

Talks between Secretary of Agriculture Clayton Yeutter and European Community Agriculture Commission

Fri., Sept. 1, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

The Singapore International Monetary Exchange's fuel oil futures contract for September recorded 510

Mobil Sales and Supplies Corp., a subsidiary of Mobil Oil Corp., and Morgan Stanley Group Inc., the

Representatives of GPA Group Ltd., Lufthansa and Swissair signed a letter of intent Thursday establi

U.S. businessmen may be interested in Asia, especially the fast-growing southeastern corner, but nee

CME TAKES ACTION AGAINST TWO MEMBERSThe Chicago Mercantile Exchange Friday said it had suspe

Insurer Axa-Midi and investment bank Paribas, allies in Sir James Goldsmith's bid for B.A.T. Industr

HITACHI WILL BUILD COMPUTERS IN USHitachi Ltd., Japan's largest electrical machinery maker,<

The Treasury Department's decision last week to delay the implementation of a controversial health b

Sept. 1, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

NIMO OMITS DIVIDEND, AGREES TO CUT SALARIESNiagara Mohawk Power Corp. said Friday it will no

World events usually pass by the pork belly pit with little mention as prices move along basic domes

REGIONAL BLOCS Doing Business in Israel: Meeting the Challenge of 1992. Sept. 11. Short<

GHANA - $40 million from the World Bank's International Development Association to improve the opera

PURCHASERS INDEX FALLS FOR 4TH STRAIGHT MONTHThe purchasing managers' index fell to 45.2 per

In a case with broad significance for U.S. labor, a U.S. court has ruled that foreign vessel owners

The revolutionary slogans that adorn much of Marxist Angola are not found inside the Cabinda Gulf Oi

Officials at the Delaware River Port Authority are taking heart from an offer by Conrail to let the

Japan shares some of the economic reform goals the United States is urging on it, Japanese Prime Min

The name of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union was misstated in an article h

Sept. 1, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

IMPORTS OF US BEEF ROSE BY 71 PERCENT IN JAPANKANSAS CITY, Kan. - Japan's imports of U.S. hi

Occidental Chemical Co. of Dallas raised prices for methylene chloride and chloroform by 2 cents a p

EC GIVES CLEARANCE TO HOSTILE PLESSEY BIDBRUSSELS, Belgium - A hostile $3.1 billion Anglo-Ge

The refusal of the U.S. economy to fall into a recession could propel thedollar higher in th

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

RAIL, UNION REACH SEPARATION AGREEMENTNORFOLK, Va. - Norfolk Southern Corp. has reached a vo

William Loftus will be named president of the American Short Line Railroad Association, reliable sou

Japanese commodities traders are projecting a continuing slide in soybean imports from the United St

More than $7 million in new equipment at an expanded Mitsui O.S.K. Ltd. terminal in Seattle is cutti

American Electric Power Service Corp. said it's scouting the market for spot coal needed in the four

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

PHOSPHORUS FMC Corp. of Philadelphia is increasing its list price for phosphorus pentasulfid

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

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