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Los Angeles-based Arco said Harrell L. Skip Bilhartz will become president of its Arco Coal divisio

The United States may move faster toward helping expand the World Bank's lending resources, a Treasu

British industry is paying more for raw materials and fuels again after nearly two years of declinin

Japan's political and business leaders should view their country's relationship with Europe as equal

Multilateral trade principals as agreed under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade are being t

Sixteen applications for licenses to act as independent ocean freight forwarders have been filed wit

The U.S. dollar appeared to stabilize Tuesday at levels slightly lower than on Monday, but in extrem

Continuing its recent pattern of looking to other markets for direction, the stock market followed a

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

The Federation of Bankers' Associations of Japan plans to urge the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank

Recession in Singapore and Malaysia helped to knock 5 percent off the profit of Bank of Canton, a un

Limits on foreigners' stock holdings in Finnish companies will be eased next month and mutual funds

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

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

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Tue., May 12, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

UK Gilt Auction Today May Bring 8.4 percent YieldLONDON - U.K. gilt market makers said they

Inversiones Chase Manhattan Ltd., the Chilean subsidiary of Chase Manhattan, is predicting Chile's p

Fluor Daniel, a unit of Fluor Corp., has been awarded a contract by Ciba- Geigy Corp. for the design

During 1986, U.S exports of man-made fiber apparel increased to 2.16 billion pounds, gaining almost

Lederle Laboratories, a division of American Cyanamid Co., announced a price reduction for diphther

Ball-Incon Glass Packaging Corp., a joint-venture company of Ball Corp. and TBG Europe NV, acquired

Emery Air Freight Corp.'s recent acquisition of Purolator Courier Corp. will return the company to p

Singapore Airlines looks set to take the plunge and buy a 747 freighter this year - its first all-ca

Procter & Gamble said it elected six vice presidents, all new positions, effective immediately:<

GENERAL NEWS The United States can anticipate both continued economic growth and more inflat

Applied DNA Systems Inc. announced an agreement with Mitsubishi-Yuka Laboratory of Medical Science C

There is "good evidence" that the huge trade imbalances between the United States and its major trad

The United States can anticipate both continued economic growth and more inflation, according to lea

Because of an editing error, Donald E. Nyrop was incorrectly identified in an article on page 9B, M

It started late last year. There was a noticeable upturn in the carrier's export traffic. For a whi

The House Aviation Subcommittee Tuesday approved legislation authorizing a 70 percent increase in fe

Defying an industrywide shakeout, a small group of airline veterans hopes to start a Miami-based air

Parliament Approves EC Food Price CutsSTRASBOURG, France - Leaders of most political groups

The 1986 Tax Reform Act hasn't made life any easier for ports, but the act's new restrictions on tax

Eastern Challenges DOT to Enter ProgramEastern Airlines has challenged the U.S. Department o

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is slowly winning the respect of a skeptical oil m

The A.H. Robins Co. has informally endorsed a revised plan for resolving Dalkon Shield claims that

A three-year government struggle to force a recall of 1.1 million 1980 General Motors cars will go a

Bouncing along through thermal updrafts, Jack Martin rolled the small plane to one side and circled