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A United Transportation Union's strike over safety issues turned ugly Monday, as Guilford Transporta

Towers Financial Corp. loosed another cannon in its continuing battle through the media to purchase

Japan Air Lines will turn into a fully private company Wednesday under new rules allowing the intern

The United States remains easily the largest overseas investor in Hong Kong, despite a surge in inve

LATE-FILE FEES. Customs has raised administrative fees for processing late- file penalties on violat

The drop in the dollar against the yen has whetted Japan's appetite for American high-tech companies

Africa Coffee Exporters Open ConferenceHARARE, Zimbabwe - Prime Minister Robert Mugabe of Zi

Greece's Socialist government is making it easier for trade unions to call a strike, but hoping that

Thermo Process Unit Wins Soviet OrderWALTHAM, Mass. - Thermo Process Systems Inc. announced

Small Companies Recover in S. KoreaSEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's smaller businesses are

Matchmaker, matchmaker make me a match - a business one, please. The U.S. Department of Comm

The United States could slash its trade deficit by 50 percent next year and balance it in three if m

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French Official Cites Devaluation DangerPARIS - Bank of France Gov. Jacques de Larosiere cau

The U.S. dollar rose sharply early Monday, but skidded off its session highs on market disappointmen

At the New York Mercantile Exchange, the trading pits really are the pits. Nymex Chairman Wi

Output at the nation's factories, mines and utilities shot up 0.6 percent in October, the biggest in

Buried in the financial markets is a hidden assumption the dollar will fall close to 30 percent in t

AVIATION British Caledonian Airways will still seek a partnership with a foreign airline if

World demand for platinum could exceed 3 million ounces for the first time ever in 1987, according t

A pregnant insurance-company worker making a house call Friday afternoon in Southwest Philadelphia w

A revised White House estimate of the scope and progress of the AIDS epidemic is likely to conclude

CF AirFreight Names Teraoka VP, SalesPALO ALTO, Calif. - Thomas A. Teraoka was named vice pr

The Federal Reserve Board's second-highest official sees confidence returning to a financial system

James O. Mason, M.D., director of the Centers For Disease Control said Monday that the federal gover

Budget negotiators came out of their Monday morning session with grim faces and few words of encoura

The Supreme Court Monday upheld the convictions of Wall Street Journal reporter R. Foster Winans and

Lumber production was up but orders and shipments were off in 12 Western states in the week ended Sa

The 44-page rule book for letters of credit traces its ancestry to a 1933 conference sponsored by th

Japanese Ambassador Meets With YeutterU.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter met with Jap

The news about federal jobs over the last few years has been filled with doom and gloom. * B

Mexico's 1988 federal budget, submitted formally to congressional review this week, projects a downt

The Lavelles' partnership as traders brings together a former U.S. merchant marine officer and a mut

The face of this harbor is changing quickly. The waterfront is cluttered with construction projects,

The European Community Commission is moving against South Korea's Hyundai Merchant Marine in the com

Railroad labor's decision to strike the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway is clear proof that th

Telecommunications is expediting the processing of letters of credit, but the ground rules set 50 ye

It's a bright clear Sunday afternoon near San Francisco Bay, and a crowd is gathered inside an old A

U.S. trade sanctions against Brazil because of its closed computer market come at a time when trade

Concern is rising among insurance professionals regarding the future of the New York Insurance Excha