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

An NEC Corp. supercomputer that will go on sale next year represents the leading edge of a Japanese

TEMPORARY SERVICES INTERNATIONAL INC. (Long Beach, Calif.) - Jennifer Frank, a recruiter and trade c

Wilh. Wilhelmsen Ltd., the Norwegian shipowner and oil rig operator, reported reduced operating prof

If you go by the numbers, U.S. mergers and acquisitions fell sharply in the first quarter of 1989 co

For generations, small boys have played with toy trains, emulating the real thing in miniature.<

Railroad intermodal service has passed from its "free lunch" first phase through its technological s

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

In an unavoidably bold move, the countries that control the world's biggest purses have approved the

Silence can be deadly. U.S. transportation companies, satisfied with domestically developed

COMPAQ COMPUTER OPENS NORWEGIAN UNITCompaq Computer Corp. has opened Compaq Computer Norway

American policy makers believe U.S. relations with Japan have been hurt, perhaps seriously, by a con

A conservative Massachusetts state lawmaker accused of aiming to "gut" the state's universal health-

A framework budget agreement now being hammered out between Congress and the Bush administration sho

Regina threw up her hands and shook her head in shocked disbelief. After seven years of glowing job

Escalating price tags for locomotives, coupled with fears that the economy may be softening, have le

The U.S. dollar pushed slightly higher against most major currencies Monday in a dull market marked

1623 (Apr. 10, 1989) Previous day - 1622 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

British Petroleum Co. shut down one of its North Sea oil rigs until the middle of the week because t

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' crude oil output exceeded 20 million barrels a da

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

Chemical import volumes bounded up 30 percent in February 1989 to 2.9 million metric tons from 2.3 m

CAMPBELL SOUP CO. (Camden, N.J.) - John T. Dorrance, a former chairman of this major food maker and

Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, the largest members of the Caribbean Economic Community, reported w

Market forces should determine how insurance is sold, said a Canadian bank executive. Consum

China is facing an unprecedented energy crisis, with power cuts hitting factories, hospitals and hou

A strike of the country's nine major containerports by the 50,000-member Japan Council of Port and H

Business leaders are breathing a collective sigh of relief over international trade agreements reach

RYDER WON'T ELIMINATE ONE-WAY TRUCK RENTALSRyder System Inc. said an article in the April 17

President Carlos Salinas de Gortari moved swiftly to confront his domestic foes, but he has waited f

The international cargo-handling business is undergoing a restructuring that is shaking the industry

An angry group of Texas service station owners filed suit against Exxon Co. U.S.A., charging that th

Gasoline prices jumped more than 10 cents in the wake of the nation's worst oil spill, gasoline mark

James E. Fligg was named executive vice president and George A. Nersesian was named vice president,

A Florida House committee last week responded to calls that someone should speak solely for consumer

Massachusetts shippers are siding with truckers in their campaign to overturn a series of steep fee

Dutch beer baron Alfred Heineken, who steps down later this month as chairman of the international b

A dock strike is all but certain in Britain, a leading dockworkers union spokesman said Monday, even

China announced over the weekend that it will hike the price of Danqing crude oil to $17.06 a barrel

South African-backed Minerals & Resources Corp. put another $507 million on the table Monday in its