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A leading Japanese bank said Wednesday it has agreed to a $1 million settlement with U.S. regulators

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Faced with longtime criticism of its closed markets, unique business practices and buy-Japanese-firs

American International Freight, the all-cargo airline geared to domestic forwarders, is introducing

Undaunted by the GOP's tough platform stance against illegal immigrants, Hispanic Republicans here s

A spate of multibillion-dollar utility mergers may have Wall Street bankers buzzing, but it remains

Europe's car market, the world's largest, is heading for another shake-up as the signs of faltering

The closure of Canadian National Railways' main line to Canada's west coast has not affected grain m

If Dan Foster has an uneasy feeling or if one of the drug-sniffing dogs so much as turns its head, h

The former senator from Kansas, Bob Dole, takes center stage in U.S. politics today to convince vote

Japanese automakers are on a foreign investment tear from Southeast Asia to North America, as they r

By designating auto manufacturing as a ''pillar'' industry in its two five-year plans for 1991-2000,

DEADLY TYPHOON KIRKGROUNDS 4 SHIPS IN JAPANTOKYO- Four ships grounded in the Amami o Shima,

A U.S. Customs Service program designed to revolutionize export data handling and improve enforcemen

The sun is beginning its descent toward the Pacific Ocean, as Jose surveys a vast expanse of rubble

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On your mark. Get set. Tax!!All across the country, lawmakers from cash-hungry states, count

The U.S. dollar declined slightly Tuesday, following the bond market lower.Tuesday's July co

A small fire in the cockpit of an American Airlines jet forced an emergency landing, officials said

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Kvaerner ASA, Europe's largest shipbuilder, said Monday its pretax earnings fell 56 percent in the f

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CHINESE INSURER BACKINGTEHRAN SUBWAY PROJECTBEIJING - PICC Property, a subsidiary of the Peo

Japan's Ministry of Finance said Tuesday it rejected a complaint by three foreign nonlife insurance

How to use:Trade leads are sent to the USDA from U.S. agricultural attaches, counselors and

MAURITANIA SEIZESHUGE HEROIN SHIPMENTNOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - Mauritanian police seized 6.75

A graphic appearing on Page 1A of the Aug. 9 edition of The Journal of Commerce should have listed P

Maersk Inc., of Copenhagen, one of the world's largest container operators, has won a contract to mo

''The unions, the trial lawyers, the liberals, and the Washington bureaucrats - and their allies in

Taiwan's high-speed rail route along the heavily populated west coast will probably be stalled until

As of Aug. 13, 1996Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

REGIONAL BLOCSJapan-U.S. Southern Conference. Sept. 4-6. Houston. Contact: Greater Houston P

KUWAIT PETROLEUMNAMES ADVISORY BANKKUWAIT - The Kuwait Petroleum Corp. said Tuesday that it

Two U.S. companies are among the front-runners to take a leading interest in Guyana's power company,

GENERAL RE REPORTSQUARTERLY NET BOOSTSTAMFORD, Conn. - General Re Corp. saw its second-quart

ST. PAUL RESusan Mack has joined the reinsurer's New York headquarters as vice president of

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Two trains carrying badly needed raw materials to a White Pine, Mich., copper mine Tuesday ran over

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