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The Siberian Express that brought subzero temperatures and wind chill factors of about 40 below to t

Laidlaw Transportation Limited reported that net income rose 69 percent to $44.2 million, or 23 cent

The industrial force of this northeastern city is hard to glimpse as thousands of people on bicycles

An Oregon man plans to import up to 270,000 sheep from New Zealand, touching off concerns by Oregon

J. Pope to Fly 'Friendly Skies'Instead of AMRJohn C. Pope was named chief financial

Brazilian debt renegotiation talks resume in New York next week under President Jose Sarney's fourth

An annual safety inspection program aimed at lowering the casualties of Panamanian-registered vessel

East German Leader Visits France for TalksEast German leader Erich Honecker began a historic

The fast-moving pace of business travel has been the main impediment to successfully producing trave

Cold weather continued to drive up heating oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange Thursday w

Japanese Firms to Cut Imports of Saudi CrudeFive Japanese oil distributors this month will c

The board of the New York Mercantile Exchange voted late Wednesday not to support a move from its cu

A secret meeting of top U.S. and Soviet agricultural officials held in London may result in more U.S

NY Mayor Hits Foam ContainersNEW YORK Pleading with McDonald's Restaurants to give us a bre

While New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo was announcing a major agreement Wednesday to increase the state'

HMSS Inc., a leading home intravenous therapy company, and the Eli Lilly Co. completed an agreement

January 7, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon

A 700-ton ship-to-shore crane at Modern Terminals Ltd., one of Hong Kong's major terminal operators.

A genetically engineered vaccine developed by The Biocine Co., a joint venture of Chiron Corp. and C

U.S. consumers took on $2.2 billion more in consumer installment credit than they paid off in Novemb

In expanding economic relations with China, South Korea should initially stress technical transfers

Julian Lee, a public relations executive and former Journal of Commerce staffer, died this week.

AVIATION The president of the Air Transport Association says Congress shortchanged the airli

The New York Court of Appeals Thursday upheld the state Department of Environmental Conservation's a

A severe shortage of diesel fuel has resulted in train cancellations and forced farmers to leave tho

Kansas City Southern Industries Inc. Thursday vowed to pursue its quest for the Southern Pacific Tra

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1295.5 (Jan. 7) Previous day - 1284.5 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in L

U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter and Willy de Clercq, the European Community's trade commis

Duff & Phelps Rates Commercial Bank LoanDuff & Phelps Inc., the Chicago-based credit rating

Californians denied health insurance because of pre-existing medical conditions would be eligible fo

An investigation into the availability of automobile insurance in Baltimore has revealed concerns ab

For steamship lines on the North Atlantic, the weaker dollar is a double-edged sword. It boosts expo

Even when a proposed toll increase of nearly one-third is imposed this spring, trucks and autos driv

AFG Completes Deal For Ford Glass UnitIRVINE, Calif. - AFG Industries Inc. completed the pur

The chief economist of Sears Roebuck & Co., the world's largest retailer, said that a recession is n

A Danish doctor and his wife invented what they claim is the world's first condom to be worn by wome

The Soviet Union has joined the exclusive capitalist club of banking with its reported decision to i

Like a boxer shrugging off a punch to the midsection, the economy absorbed the stock market crash of

The United States' ambitious program of planetary exploration, already years behind schedule and mil