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A fully laden Saudi Arabian oil tanker escaped a missile attack by an Iranian gunboat in the souther

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

Stocks will continue to meander aimlessly until Friday, when the unpredictable "triple witching hour

Cuckoos, apparently, are no longer enough to sell cuckoo clocks. Nor, it seems, are dancing couples,

Diasonics Inc. and Helsinki-based Instrumentarium Corp. announced that the ultra-low-field magnetic

The European Commission said cuts in steel production capacity proposed by European steelmakers is i

Nicaragua is moving to prevent foreign bankers from seizing its assets as payment of back interest o

Celanese Chemical Co. announced an increase in the selling prices of acetic acid and vinyl acetate,

Twenty California cantaloupe packers have agreed to pay up to $8.2 million in a settlement with 5,00

Tanker Spills Oil After Crash in Ise BayA Liberian-registered tanker collided with a Panaman

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

Desoto Inc. said it sold its fatty acid, fatty amide and metallic stearate businesses to Plastic Spe

Local industries that make their own electricity could see increases of up to 50 percent in their el

The TransPacific Westbound Rate Agreement said it canceled a planned increase in its currency surcha

Brokers agree with the results of a Peat, Marwick Mitchell & Co. study showing nine out of 10 corpor

American Express Bank Ltd., a unit of American Express Co., named John L. Slang senior vice presiden

The trading and marketing unit of the rapidly growing First Pacific Group reported a 128 percent inc

A record was being set in Seattle by a labor union, and those involved seemed mighty proud of it.

Indonesia has signed a $905 million loan agreement with the Export-Import Bank of Japan. Ind

Japanese-owned companies operating in the United States grew in both number of employees and net fix

RUMORS ARE CIRCULATING in Washington about attempts to negotiate agreements aimed at settling some

United Airlines has been accused in a class-action lawsuit of cheating thousands of customers in its

The Consumer Price Index for the Northeast rose .7 percent in January 1987 over the month before be

Factory Output Report WASHINGTON - Capacity utilization figures for February are expected to

First came the Anteater. It wasn't the squat, long-nosed animal, but the first of a new breed of aer

Georgia Power Co. is being allowed to proceed with full power operation of the nearly $9 billion Uni

A local court has declared illegal the unilateral action taken by the port director of Genoa suspend

The board of governors of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange decided not to act on a member petition to

Union Bank of Switzerland, the largest bank in that country and 10th largest in the world, is the la

Volkswagen, the giant West German carmaker, fired its chief foreign exchange trader Friday and remov

Although the world price of sugar has risen sharply, it still is far below what U.S. consumers must

WORLD BANK INDIA - $140 million for Oil India Ltd.'s oil and gas exploration and production,

Domestic exports and re-exports to the United States began the year at a cracking pace, with increas

Half the residents of Ajo have moved away since the copper mine shut down and scores of homes stand

Trucking Associations Ratify Merger PactThe boards of directors of two major trucking associ

GENERAL NEWS Ford and Chrysler improved sales in the first 10 days of March but industry-lea

The favorable economic reports keep coming in, with good news on wholesale prices and industrial act

China Cites 19.3 percent Rise In W. German TradeTrade between China and West Germany reached

Six ships have been waiting for a month or more to discharge sugar at a London refin ery because of

Shrewd traders, cheap wages, tireless workers, big savers - all have pushed South Korea to the top