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The U.S. dollar continued its week-long decline against major foreign currencies Wednesday in tradin

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

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

JANUARY 6-7 - Insurance Crisis Conference - San Francisco - Laventhol & Horwath certified pu

IDB HONDURAS - $12.4 million to help finance a rural development program benefiting 4,300 lo

Jack Block, whose chubby face won him the title of Carnation Milk's Baby of the Week during the Depr

Taiwan has about 40,000 trading companies, but the government's efforts to foster large trading hous

At a congressional hearing held in northern New Jersey two years ago, a local woman told of her fear

Japan's November gold imports dropped sharply to 8.6 metric tons from 70.1 metric tons in October, m

The Wayne Newton libel case is causing concern in the news media, stirring fears that a record $19.3

Lovers who in years gone by might have quietly taken their venereal diseases to the doctor are incre

Unocal Corp., Los Angeles, made its first shipments of synthetic crude oilfrom its shale oil

Pentagon personnel and health officials have won an internal battle to keep alive a new program of d

A study linking increased high blood pressure among doctors to decreased income indicates economic f

Just a few years ago, a specter was haunting Japan - the unhappy specter of overly expensive crude o

In about two years, the $1 billion cleanup of the nation's worst commercial nuclear accident is due

The West German multinational group, Thyssen-Bornemisza, purchased 2 percent of Garrone, Italy's maj

The American Automobile Association reports that retail gasoline prices are 33 cents to 37 cents les

Numac Oil & Gas Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta, made a light-gravity oil discovery at Tangent in northern A

Inventories of key petroleum products held by refiners, importers and at pipeline terminals declined

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

Stock Market Planned For Beijing in JanuaryThe government plans to open a financial and stoc

ICC Adopts Final Rules On Lease ExemptionsThe Interstate Commerce Commission adopted final r

The Massachusetts Port Authority continues to land-bank waterfront property with deepwater berths fo

Wednesday, Dec. 24, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Live Animal Transport: Disinfectants ProposedCarriers that transport live animals from the U

Dole Named Marad's NewChief CounselThe Maritime Administration has a new chief couns

Atlantic States Association of Rail Shippers meeting, Jan. 8, Philadelphia Hershey Hotel, Philadelph

A maritime union that was formed last year to organize deck officers now represents over 400 workers

Flota Mercante Grancolombiana SA wants the Federal Maritime Commission to reject complaints from O.

Far Eastern press reports indicate that Toyo Menka Kaisha Ltd. has withdrawn its lawsuit against the

The Maritime Administrative Bar Association joined carrier interests to oppose intervention by the s

Officials say overall business in this largest of Italy's ports is on the rebound under Roberto D'Al

A voluntary cargo support scheme ensuring a minimum of 40 percent of freight exports on a sector-to

Ellerman Begins Service To the MediterraneanMOBILE, Ala. - British-based Ellerman Line began

Containerization & Intermodal Institute. All-day seminar on the impact of the 1984 Shipping Act on c

California truckers will have until March 1 to prepare for new state trucking regulations, the state

The relationship between Taiwan and South Africa, nations that have little in common except a shared

Air Canada is back on a profit course after l8 months of financial turbulence, says Pierre Jeanniot,

Threats of further cuts in mining appear to have forced the government of Thailand into reconsiderin