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Talk of a possible visit by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to Silicon Valley brings memories of the

The Military Sealift Command says it's cheaper to man five cable-laying ships with civil servants th

A federal appeals court absolved Monsanto Co. of knowingly exposing seven workers to dioxin, but fou

Insurance companies are pushing a watered-down rate control bill in an effort to derail stronger leg

The nation's firefighters are launching a campaign for tougher state laws to reduce the more than 1,

An article on Massachusetts auto rates Aug. 27 misidentified a spokesperson's employer.Joseph DiGiov

An almost immediate payoff will result from Consolidated Freightways, Inc.'s adoption of a new data

Capital Holding Forms New Credit FacilityLOUISVILLE, Ky. - Capital Holding Corp., a life ins

A key witness against Teamsters President Jackie Presser has recanted his testimony, blaming medicat

The Federal Home Loan Bank Board voted to move forward with plans to bring $10.8 billion into the in

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has indefinitely shut down Pier 40 in lower Manhattan

A grand send-off for a replica of the 15th century ship Santa Maria on its voyage to Europe was post

The new superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy plans no change in the academy's mission

Harry Rutstein tried for seven years to sell millimeter wave devices to China, but could not do so b

The Houston World Trade Institute announced its first fall calendar of international business semina

The U.S. dollar moved slightly higher Monday afternoon on talk the Federal Reserve was calling tradi

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

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

The euphoria over Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's move to liberalize the economy and encourage private

Debt-ridden Mexico, short of cash since its economic crisis began in August 1982, suddenly has found

Security Pacific Buys 30 percent of Burn Fry Corp.NEW YORK - Security Pacific Corp. is buyin

Schlumberger Ltd. signed a definitive agreement for the purchase by National Semiconductor Corp., Sa

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

In his 10 months as the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Charles J. Pilliod Jr. has kept a prudently low p

Sales of new single-family homes in the United States increased 0.5 percent in July to a seasonally

At the same time that the eastern United States was losing 1.8 million manufacturing jobs, manufactu

U.S.-Iraqi economic relations will slowly but steadily keep improving, Iraqi Ambassador Nizar Hamdoo

Mon., Aug. 31, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa suggested Monday a global "risk insurance" program for for

Israel's decision to halt development of the Lavi fighter jet leaves U.S. defense contractors scramb

An article on ocean carriage to South Africa that appeared in a special section on African Shipping

The British economy is expected to expand by more than 3 percent this year, faster than previously f

Top Stories Reinsurers are finding the global marketplace accessible despite some problems e

Former Armco Inc. Chairman C. William Verity, President Reagan's nominee for secretary of commerce,

Last week's bloody coup attempt will probably set back government efforts to rejuvenate the Philippi

Huge back-to-back grain harvests by the Soviet Union and Moscow's commitment to agricultural reforms

AVIATION A proposed change in the definition of an air carrier is a step back, critics say.

Matson Navigation Promotes MulhollandSAN FRANCISCO - Matson Navigation Co. promoted C. Bradl

Japan has pledged to resolve roughly half of 104 special complaints from its main trading partners a