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Leather's Popularity Traced to New StylesNew techniques for treating leather have made it as

The labels on non-alcoholic beverages should be required to say the drinks actually may contain some

When Samuel A. Armacost was forced to resign in October as chief executive of BankAmerica Corp., he

Wall Street's insider trading scandals aren't going to smooth the path of banks seeking directors an

French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac told U.S. congressmen Wednesday that his government was increas

The economic goals of Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev appear to include ashift of some re

India's state-owned automaker, Maruti Udyog Ltd., on Tuesday signed its first export contract, a bar

A decade of free-market policies initiated by Chicago-trained economists and the prospect of democra

Burgundy, a rich wine-growing region in the central-western part of France, is striving to develop i

Denmark had a current accounts deficit in February amounting to 191 million kroner ($27.7 million) f

The Caribbean's tourist industry grew in 1986 by 5 percent in the volume of visitor arrivals, booste

Argentine President Raul Alfonsin swore in a union leader as the country's new labor minister amid c

The Japanese probably will be able to head off the worst of the proposed U.S. import tariffs on semi

Richard A. Debs, president of Morgan Stanley International Inc. and a managing director of Morgan St

The Reagan administration has granted a Japanese request for emergency consultations on $300 million

The surprising increase in the prime rate at a number of major money center banks isn't likely to ha

Commercial banks warned they can't take a lead financing role in developing countries and urged indu

The U.S. dollar rose Wednesday as major U.S. banks raised their prime rate to 7.75 percent from 7.5

GENERAL NEWS Few, if any, sparks are likely to fly when President Reagan and Prime Minister

The Senate appeared to be moving toward overriding President Reagan's veto of an $88 billion highway

U.S. construction spending rose 1 percent in February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $378.4

Prospects for banking legislation in this Congress improved with a House Banking Committee decision

Treaties Proposed WASHINGTON - The Soviet Union has approached a number of West European cou

GENERAL NEWS Few, if any, sparks are likely to fly when President Reagan and Prime Minister

The House Budget Committee adopted, on a straight party-line vote, a fiscal 1988 spending plan that

The porcupine caribous don't know it, but they're at the center of an oil and gas exploration contro

The House Merchant Marine & Fisheries Committee is expected to approve three maritime bills today,

In December 1985, Warner-Lambert Co. looked as if it were flat on its back. The $3.1 billion

Few, if any, sparks are likely to fly when President Reagan and Prime Minister Mulroney of Canada ge

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

Stock prices rose on a late round of buying in the blue chips Wednesday, despite news of the first i

A bid by the Philippines to pay interest on its debt with shares in its companies rather than with d

Wednesday, April 1, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Greg Morris is a hard man to reach these days. As the president of a new shipper-trucker gro

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

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

Farmers plan to cut back sharply on corn plantings this spring, reflecting overloaded world granarie

The Chicago Board of Trade announced its municipal bond futures contract set a volume record Monday

An Agriculture Department report shows that farmers, on the aver age, in March got about the same pr

Deak International moved Wednesday into wholesale trading of precious and nonferrous metals in both