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Foreign ministers of the European Community have formally approved the EC's opening position in glob

While growing sales of imported products have drawn close attention recently, more than 4 million Am

Tokyo Stock Exchange To Widen MembershipTOKYO - The Tokyo Stock Exchange formally decided at

Housing construction climbed 4.4 percent in September, the biggest gain in nine months, the governme

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

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

U.S. financial markets stabilized somewhat Tuesday after Monday's record plunge, but most foreign st

Amid the clamor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, the day of the biggest drop in the market'

Mobil Chemical Co. announced that it is expanding its plastic grocery sacks production by 20 percent

European postal authorities are thinking of chartering their own aircraft capacity to fly overnight

Airline industry unions will ban flights between Fiji and this country starting Nov. 1, Australian C

New York City Comptroller Harrison J. Goldin said Tuesday that two citizens' groups in Brooklyn and

Here are highlights of the findings reported to President Reagan by theCommission on the Mer

The U.S. dollar rose early Tuesday, but began weakening at midday. Analysts said the market

D. Searfoss Takes Post With Phoenix MutualHARTFORD, Conn. - David W. Searfoss will join Phoe

The White House Tuesday flatly rejected congressional pleas for a joint summit on reducing the budge

The New York Supreme Court ruled against the insurance superintendent for the way medical malpractic

Calling all-terrain vehicles rolling death machines," Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox said this we

Bedlam broke out on the floors of U.S. futures and options exchanges as trading in stock index futur

Wall Street's stunning reversal on Monday sent Mexican stocks tumbling further this week, alarming o

A mine was reportedly spotted in the main shipping lanes of the Persian Gulf Tuesday, and radio moni

Carriers remain uncertain what the Federal Maritime Commission may have in mind about keeping record

Arthur Andersen & Co., the public accounting firm that quietly has become the nation's biggest compu

The recent revival of coffee export quotas has made some coffee grades scarce in West Germany, impor

October 20, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallo

In Dave V. Sharma's private Utopia is a "pure" air cargo terminal where virtually every pound of air

The oil industry could be badly hurt by a stock market-related downturn in the economy, after being

The Hong Kong stock exchange halted all trading until next week. The local futures exchange

Credit card purchases in China doubled in the first six months of this year over last and the trend

Livestock producers are seeing prices weaken this fall as more cattle, hogs and chickens head for ma

* The Hong Kong stock exchange stops trading for the rest of the week; European markets hold up; the

Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, urged President Reagan to agree to a freeze on defense spending levels in

Showa Line's new trans-Pacific shuttle service has a transit time of 11 days between Kaohsiung and L

Oct. 20 Baltic International Freight Futures Exchangeprev.Close High Low

1105.0 (Oct. 20) Previous day - 1097.5 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

Top Stories U.S. economists remain hopeful that the dollar's decline will spur growth in exp

Caribbean countries are shipping increasing quantities of garments to the United States although the

Tue., Oct. 20, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

The loss of wealth created by the plunge in the world's stock markets could mean harder times ahead

Insurance stocks took less of a beating than many other industries in the recent stock market plunge