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Indonesia registered a trade surplus of US$307.9 million in December, official statistics released l

Japan's leading companies are expected to post an average 21.2 percent increase in pretax profits in

FCC WILL PRESS AHEAD ON AT&T OVERHAULWASHINGTON - The chairman of the Federal Communications

U.S. ship operators and shipbuilders are at odds over whether there is a need to clarify the standar

IMPROPER WIRING CITED IN JAPAN'S BOEING JETSFire extinguisher systems in cargo compartments

Twenty years ago, a Delta-winged wonder known as the Concorde 001 took off on its maiden flight, lif

A Chinese delegation is due in the United States later this month to tie up details of a forestry jo

There is a lot more talk than action in the chemical industry when it comes to electronic data inter

By the mid-1980s a chorus of criticism was building around Fruehauf Corp. Chairman Robert Rowan.

The rail industry's labor unions have challenged the Interstate CommerceCommission's authori

The government said Friday it dealt a "major blow" to the KGB by cracking a spy ring that news repor

JAPAN PAYMENTS SURPLUS INCREASED IN JANUARYJapan posted a seasonally adjusted current accoun

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Higher scrap copper, crude oil, plywood and aluminum prices pushed The Journal of Commerce Industria

State money for settlement of $162 million in Indian land claims against the city and Port of Tacoma

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

The futures market traded upward last week, although its pace was sideways until late Wednesday onwa

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EGYPT CONFIRMS 5 PERCENT CUT IN CRUDE OIL EXPORTSEgypt will cut its oil exports by 5 percent

Oil development of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and its environmental impact would be li

Wah Kwong Shipping Group Ltd. is joining forces with a local entrepreneur to take the largest single

An electronics industry group says it is urging large-scale re-entry by U.S. companies into the glob

CALIF. ASSEMBLY REJECTS TEMPORARY RATE FREEZESACRAMENTO, Calif. - The California Assembly la

Poorly managed and unscrupulous managing general agents have played key roles in driving a handful o

SUBROTO SEES $18 OIL, WITH NON-OPEC HELPThe Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries wi

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

Bank of Japan Governor Satoshi Sumita said Friday the stability of foreign exchange rates during 198

A senior Environmental Protection Agency official told Congress Thursday that apple products are saf

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AMAX COAL INDUSTRIES INC. (Indianapolis) - A. Frank Dunham joined Amax Coal Sales Co., a subsidiary,

Bernard Pache has perhaps the most unenvied executive job in the world coal industry. As cha

1588 (Mar. 3, 1989) Previous day - 1577 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

Under Lenin's dour gaze from a giant portrait, Soviet officials uncorked their new export super-vodk

Textiles Ministry officials claim the United States has reneged on an ''understanding" conferring qu

Purchasing managers from major industrial firms say that for the second straight month the economy w

NCR Corp. has bagged a second bank computer contract in Macao, the Portuguese-governed territory nea

Representatives of Japanese-flag carriers are amused by the way some other shipping companies are pu

China has opened a new petrochemical buying office in Houston, distressing U.S. chemical makers in A

European oil prices firmed by the close of trading Friday with North Sea Brent breaking through the