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Japanese wholesale prices dropped 10.7 percent in July from a year before, reflecting cheaper import

A direct 24-hour telephone hot line connecting civil air traffic controllers in Anchorage, Alaska, T

Rising oil prices and prospects for lower interest rates could provide the proper environment for th

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

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Congress Begins Recess WASHINGTON - Official government business in the nation's capital is

For month after month the Agriculture Department has published figures showing gloomy prospects for

The International Monetary Fund formally declared Peru ineligible for further IMF loans until Peru s

FINANCIALThe credit markets expect another Federal Reserve discount rate cut in September, b

Sea-Land Corp. had a loss of about $49 million in the second quarter of 1986, compared with net inco

Contract talks between the New York and Boston shipping associations and the International Longshore

Volvo GM Heavy Truck Corp., the new joint venture of General Motors Corp. and VolvoTruck Corp. of Sw

A volunteer church bookkeeper confessed to a priest that she had embezzled $28,000 from the church.

Credit market analysts are growing more and more certain that the Federal Reserve Board will cut the

Crop analysts are predicting a record western Canadian grain harvest this fall. It will occu

Port officials began totaling costs of their wildcat-caging subcontractafter completion of the work.

Negotiations among the marine underwriters of Lloyd's of London to agree on war-risk premiums for ve

The Justice Department asked U.S. District Court here to dismiss a challenge by the National Maritim

The Royal Nedlloyd Group reported earnings of 21.7 million guilders ($6.3 million) for the first six

A group of 10 active and retired members of the International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pil

Lumber Output Rises As Orders DeclinePORTLAND, Ore. - Lumber production increased, but order

All-water shipping services from Asia to the U.S. East Coast will find it increasingly difficult to

Andean Line Inc., a newly formed liner operation, is starting a 21-day service between Europe, the U

The Port of Seattle has scrapped plans for widening and deepening Duwamish Waterway to develop the c

A Philadelphia public relations executive has faulted the increasingly criticized insurance industry

Union Mutual Life Insurance Co. policyholders will vote in late October on a plan to convert the fir

Japan should overhaul its economic structure to put it more in tune with the global economy, a gover

Exporters of computer software from India will receive all tax benefits applicable to other exports

Chinese Firm Seeks Factory DirectorsThe Shenyang Automobile Factory Co. has advertised natio

Orion Plans Block Sale Of Share in Colo. FirmOrion Capital Corp. said it decided to sell its

Several internationally known manufacturers of leather footwear are set to establish joint ventures

A Southern California newspaper filed suit against the Port of Los Angeles charging the port is with

The House of Representatives defeated an amendment that would have transferred the Navy's aircraft c

The world coffee futures market appears to be in the process of forming a bottom, analysts told Knig

The world cocoa market should see a surplus of supply over demand of 54,000 metric tons in 1985/86 c

Cleveland-Cliffs Seeks To Scrap Cargo VesselThe Cleveland-Cliffs Steamship Co., Cleveland, O

The Farm Credit System, the nation's largest farm lender, will lose up to $1.8 billion this year and

Sri Lankan refugees in West Germany are closing ranks and insisting they know nothing about a scheme

ACL Realigns As ExecutivesAssume PostsFour executives of Atlantic Container Line rec

The former general manager of failed Overseas Trust Bank Ltd. was jailed for three years for his par