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The Interstate Commerce Commission will find that several major railroads earned enough money last y

Libya may be developing biological weapons many times more dangerous than conventional nerve or must

This will be Congress' year of oversight on U.S. trade policy. After enacting two historic t

Part of the shipping empire formerly controlled by Malcom McLean may end up as an element of an intr

Coastal Corp., Houston, and Union Enterprises Ltd., Toronto, Monday announced that Kamine Engineerin

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A delegation from Amoco Chemical Co. is visiting the Philippines for talks with officials, giving ri

Thousands of South Korean shipyard workers vowed on Tuesday to continue a month-long strike, urging

The U.S. dollar rose to a new 12-week high Tuesday, despite dollar-selling intervention by the U.S.

Tue., Jan. 10, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Foreign travel costs for Brazilians jumped, but business travelers saw their official expense allowa

Japanese banks are scrambling to set up securities shops in the United States even though Japan's to

GIULIANI RESIGNS; PROBE OF MISSION TO CONTINUEU.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani resigned Tuesda

The Takeshita administration announced a Japanese economic growth target of 4 percent after inflatio

The Japanese imported a record 133,583 foreign manufactured autos last year, a whopping increase of

A modified Customs user fee and a bigger staff to handle complaints against low-priced imports are a

Western central bankers have joined the fight against international crime, urging banks to make it h

Foreign investors are snapping up U.S. companies at bargain-basement prices, thanks to the lowered v

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REAGAN BUDGET HIKES CFTC SPENDING 8.8 PERCENTPresident Reagan's proposed federal budget woul

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

NATIONAL STARCH BUYS THIEM FROM KOPPERSBRIDGEWATER, N.J. - National Starch & Chemical Corp.,

China's textile industry, smarting under sharply tighter quotas to the United States, is planning mo

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has been producing about 19.5 million barrels of o

APACHE ACQUIRES 50 PERCENT OF CITIZENS CORP.Apache Corp. Monday purchased 50 percent of Citi

HE MAY NOT BE LOVED, but he'll be missed - by some people, at least - if he actually does leave.

Orient Overseas Container Line said it plans to boost capacity between the Far East and Europe in pr

President Reagan's fiscal 1990 budget formally asks Congress to let the U.S. St. Lawrence Seaway age

Truckers handling most of Jamaica's containerized export cargo say they are suspending their service

The former parent of bankrupt United States Lines Inc. may become part of a larger restructuring of

The Supreme Court Monday declined to review the concept of dividing product liability trials into th

The Justice Department will pursue a criminal investigation in the $1.5 billion failure of Mission I

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

MARTIN VAN BUREN HAS BEEN GETTING more attention in the last few weeks than he has for a century an

Israel and Libya, both accused of secretly making chemical weapons, shifted the spotlight Monday bac

IMC Fertilizer Inc. resumed production operations at the Four Corners phosphate rock mine in central

Strong demand for methyl methacrylate and a lucrative export margin will keep acetone prices near cu

Jan. 9, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Engineers at NASA-Ames Research Center in Mountain View are perfecting computer guidance systems so