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The local subsidiary of RCA Corp. is selling its color television tube production facility to a Braz

Lured by more attractive tax laws back home or spooked by price freezes and rising nationalism here,

GENERAL NEWS The U.S. economy showed signs of re-inflating as the government reported a shar

The United States is a hot spot for tourists from all over the world, thanks largely to the weak dol

Nippon Steel Corp., the world's largest steel product manufacturer, informed its 54,000-member union

The Jamaican government and Alcan have sent to arbitration a dispute over the pricing of alumina (re

Canal Panel Sets Up Apprentice ProgramThe Panama Canal Commission March 9 will establish Mar

The U.S. economy showed signs of re-inflating Friday as the government reported a sharp gain in whol

The Export-Import Bank said it will begin financing operations and maintenance contracts of U.S. fir

Consumer confidence, which held at relatively high levels throughout most of 1986, dropped sharply i

Solidarity among West Coast unions motivated James Herman, president of the International Longshorem

Reaction was restrained to the introduction in Congress of the first of what will be a raft of bills

The number of tons of imported steel moving through the state-owned terminal here is rising rapidly

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

The Justice Department's Antitrust Division doesn't support ocean carriers' ef forts to limit provis

GENERAL NEWS Retail sales plummeted a record 5.8 percent in January. Page 3AFINANCIAL

Some members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries may be cheating on their productio

S&P Rates Tokyo Debt Preliminary Triple-AStandard & Poor's Corp. assigned a preliminary trip

A partnership headed by oilman T. Boone Pickens Jr. has sold its stock in Diamond Shamrock Corp. af

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

Weeks before the release of a Reagan administration study on the national security implications of r

Pertamina, the Indonesian state oil company, signed an oil exploration and production contract with

After five years of anguish, Merrill Lynch's thundering herd is quietly shuffling away from a Hong K

Japan's Arabian Oil Expects Profitable YearArabian Oil Co., Japan's largest oil producer, is

Chevron Corp. acquired all outstanding shares of Huntington Beach Co. HBC shareholders are entitled

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

The U.S. dollar rebounded Thursday from a morning downturn traced to soft U.S. retail sales figures.

Stocks declined in heavy trading Thursday on news federal prosecutors filed insider trading charges

Mexico is on the verge of entering the age of nuclear power with the opening of its Laguna Verde pow

The Florida insurance deparment and a trade group representing Florida insurers are opposed to the g

Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone indicated an early meeting of the Group of Five will be d

150 Groups Join To Fight Budget CutsOne hundred fifty groups representing physicians, hospit

The Federal Maritime Commission will tighten the rules governing cases it handles, despite grumbling

There's a mysterious new tenant expected at the port of Tacoma withinsix months, but port leaders ar

A festering policy dispute within the trucking industry led to a game of musical chairs this week am

GENERAL NEWS Retail sales plummeted a record 5.8 percent in January. Page 3AFINANCIAL

A U.S. manufacturer will export agricultural equipment to the Soviet Union with the help of a Britis

The climate for private foreign investment in the Third World is improving, but capital flows are sl

Upjohn Co. reported fourth quarter net income of $64 million, or $1.03 a share, up 28 percent from $

President Reagan ended weeks of speculation by endorsing expansion of the Medicare program to provid