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Eleven insurers have returned to the workers compensation market in Maine since emergency legislatio

Charleston port officials expect Sea-Land Service Inc. to double its container volume through the po

Hoechst Celanese Corp. plans a 20-million pounds a year expansion of cellulose acetate tow capacity

The threat of formidable competition from China highlighted the first round of topics addressed at a

January's cold weather cost U.S. homeowners nearly a half-billion dollars in extra heating costs, ac

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

U.S. consumers will pay anywhere from $5 to $75 for a box of chocolates for loved ones this Valentin

Nearly half the HK$2.7 billion (US$346 million) spent by Hong Kong on imports of fresh produce in th

Consumer Prices Rise In OECD CountriesOECD countries' consumer prices rose an average 0.1 pe

Economist Forecasts Recession by Early '89NEW YORK - A U.S. recession will begin in the next

Charles L. Kearny and John H. Satterfield apparently won't have to search very hard for export custo

Most members of a premier candy family favor a flight to Mars, one refuses in the belief aliens are

The U.S. dollar turned mixed Thursday after meandering in a tight range through morning dealings.

Pfizer to Construct Paper Pigment PlantPfizer Inc. said it will build an on-site precipitate

Brazil's Politeno SA, a producer of low-pressure polyethylene, has signed a contract with the Canadi

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

I.C.H. Corp. said Wednesday that it will extend its offer to buy 11.2 million common shares of First

It's not easy for Murray Lawrence, who took over as chairman of Lloyd's of London in January, to hid

The national office vacancy rate declined in the fourth quarter of 1987 in part because of a slowdo

The Transportation Department will apparently beat an approaching congressional deadline for releasi

Transportation Secretary James Burnley agreed that fundamental changes are needed in how the Federal

All sides are claiming victory in the wake of a federal judge's decision last week to dismiss a Unit

Operating income for the nation's largest general freight trucking companies dropped an average of 4

American Carriers Inc. rejected an acquisition bid from Baytree Investors Inc. and filed suit agains

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The U.S. dollar will weaken further this year and next, declining about 10 percent against the major

Nearly a dozen firms along the Merrimack River routinely dump illegal amounts of potentially lethal

The agreements reached this week by the environmental ministers of 22 major industrial nations focus

In the southern gulf, the Norwegian supertanker Happy Kari became the latest victim of the so-called

State officials will hold special meetings with New Yorkers who will be affected most by a new set o

In January 1982, a team of biologists from Philadelphia, Seattle and San Diego began what seemed to

Yankee Agrees to Sell Its Gas SubsidiaryThe Yankee Cos., Boston, said that it signed a defin

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

Alcoa Will Resume Mining in JamaicaKINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaica has given Pittsburg-based Alu

The Bank of England's assessment that October's stock market crash has not seriously harmed world ec

The Reagan administration could close the U.S. market to fish from Japan to punish that nation for i

There is likely to be a court challenge aimed at overturning a Reagan administration waiver of a U.S

Feb. 11, 1988 Baltic International Freight Futures ExchangePrev.Close High

FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORP. (Reston, Va.) - Richard A. Bottomley was named vice president of lo

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on