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The Financial Accounting Standards Board has approved issuance of a statement that would allow elect

PROGRESS IN INDIA: A friend of mine from graduate school has found some big changes upon returning t

Wary of possible U.S. protectionist moves, South Korea plans to limit its trade surplus with the Uni

Workmen have scrubbed the great granite buildings along Shanghai's famed waterfront Bund, and the ci

Spending on Japan's program to send its first astronaut aboard a U.S. space shuttle will be cut in

Chinese Teen-agers Offer Experiments for ShuttleThe Chinese Society of Aeronautics will manu

Officials proposing to cut the work week from 48 to 40 hours say they expect to run into resistance

For rich executives and middle-class entrepreneurs in Hong Kong, there is too much risk in not makin

One out of four Belgian families relies on a second, unreported income to make ends meet, a newspap

Yugoslavia's Parliament adopted the 1987 economic plan that only expresses hopes for containing runa

Shippers say they are not thrilled about a 10 percent rate increase proposed by two conferences in t

Iran-US Negotiations THE HAGUE, Netherlands - U.S. and Iranian officials meet today to negot

Entrepreneurs in this English-speaking Caribbean republic are still rejoicing over the recent electi

A single maritime company with a handful of ships and barges is making nearly as much money as all o

The credit markets appear to be moving sideways during the holiday period, thereby explaining analys

Getting hold of a camel in London is a lot harder than it was 10 years ago. Despite all the

Indonesians Continue Rush to Buy DollarsJAKARTA, Indonesia - The Indonesian rush to buy U.S.

Japan's exports of cars, trucks and buses fell 15.1 percent in November from a year earlier to 516,9

Harry Kindya, head bartender at the Downtown Athletic Club, has a most unusual way of judging the he

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

Ford Motor Co.'s top officials predicted 1987 U.S. motor vehicle sales of 15 million units, down sli

Friday, Dec. 26, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

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

National Starch and Chemical Corp. announced the acquisition of Bassi Marchini & C. SpA, an industri

A company seeking to burn toxic waste off the New Jersey coast has sued federal officials, alleging

Trinova Unit CompletesIPC PurchaseMAUMEE, Ohio - Sterling Engineered Products Inc.,

Market for Gum Rosins FirmsThe market for U.S. gum rosins is reported to be firming.

Ciba-Geigy Corp. began a major construction-expansion project at its Newport, Del., quinacridone pig

Steelmakers in Brazil could outdo Japanese mills in staking out further reductions in the price of c

Workmen have scrubbed the great granite buildings along Shanghai's famed waterfront Bund, and the ci

Samples of coffee mugs, umbrellas and wristwatches fill his office, but what Herbert A. Gold really

The undisputed dean of the maritime bartenders and a legend in the industry was a man named Spiros L

The leadership of Yasuhiro Nakasone is certain to be severely tested by stormy legislative sessions

Troubled dairy operator Knudsen Corp. on Friday said it agreed to sell its Texas and Louisiana opera

Indonesia Sees Increase In Fish Export EarningsJAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia earned $197.8

If members of the grain marketing industry - including two separate branches of the federal governme

Alberta Expected to Sell Three Grain TerminalsVANCOUVER, British Columbia - Three inland gra

The nation's cotton harvest continues to drag in some areas because of poor weather conditions, acco

The Reagan administration intends to propose ways to cut farm program costs in its fiscal 1988 budge

An association of Northern California ports will pay $152,000 for a conceptual design for computers