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Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III said Monday the record monthly trade deficit posted by the Uni

The European Community Commission approved a 590,000 European currency unit ($679,000) aid package t

The short-term prospects for Caribbean economies are not encouraging, with only moderate growth like

AVIATION Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole resigned to work in her husband's president

Labor strikes in recent weeks cost South Korea $1.59 billion in production losses and $520 million i

Motorists with large or mid-sized cars face less chance of injury and lower repair costs, but even c

Fresh findings that suggest a cancer risk for some Vietnam veterans have reopened a political and sc

William J. Welsh has been in the book business all his working life. My father was a great l

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A lot of truckers laughed when the Budd Co. introduced its anti-lock brake system. The year

Attempts by bankers to return four United States Lines Econships to operation are not meeting with s

Todd Shipyards Corp., which filed for bankruptcy-law protection last month, has asked a military app

1049.0 (Sept. 14) Previous day - 1060.5 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

Many maritime companies have fled to New Jersey or Connecticut in recent years to escape the costs a

Insurers of risk purchasing groups in Iowa say they need to lose now in order to win later.

Massachusetts commercial health insurers will sit down to plan their response to a 159-page health i

State officials will seek to remove the $10,000 limit on the medical malpractice liability of hospit

The security fund of the New York Insurance Exchange won't be able to cover the undiscounted losses

The president of the Independent Insurance Agents of America made a passionate plea for agent involv

Post-election pressure for a debt moratorium is building up on Argentine President Raul Alfonsin as

NY Approves Drop In Car Insurance RatesSuperintendent James P. Corcoran announced Monday tha

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

After-tax profits of U.S. manufacturers rose to an average of 4.8 percent of sales in the second qua

President Reagan is expected to move quickly to name a new secretary of transportation to replace El

Mon., Sept. 14, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

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

Italy Announces Steps To Defend the LiraROME - Italy introduced a package of foreign exchang

Foreign exchange investors here, battered after two years of a declining U.S.dollar, gradual

Huntington Advisers Inc. announced six new foreign single-currency money market portfolios on Monday

The hard new debt stance taken by Argentina in the wake of its elections has driven prices for its d

The U.S. dollar rose against major foreign currencies Monday, although it lost some ground around mi

The book in his hand was printed in the 1880s. He can't open the coverbecause if he does, th

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

There are computers everywhere; there are jukeboxes of optical disks and compact disks; there's a ch

Indonesia bought 40,000 metric tons of U.S. No. 1 yellow soybeans for Sept. 18-30 delivery under PL-

Local entrepreneur Li Ka-shing seems firmly back on the acquisition trailwith announcement of a huge

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The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating why a Florida-bound Eastern Airlines jet carryi

IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY MORNING when this reporter was flying commercial to an assignment last Tues

Sony Corp. says it will launch a digital audio tape player in Europe in October, a step that would g