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(1) DAILY INDEX Annual Smoothed percent +15.187/6 102.67/7 102.47/8

The following are companies slated for sale during 1994, as well as those planned for the 1995-97 ti

Wracked by political turmoil and a narrowly averted banking collapse, Venezuela's new government hop

Thailand will impose rules on the allocation of new listings that should give smaller and foreign in

The U.S. dollar fell to yet another record low against the Japanese yen Tuesday before bouncing back

A sharp rise in crude oil prices Tuesday helped push the Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index

NEW CARIBBEAN GROUP TO PROMOTE COOPERATIONKINGSTON, Jamaica - Governments of 25 countries in

Seiko Fukuoka and her husband Brian Sherlock are building a house in the middle of a field in Niharu

1398 (July 12, 1994) Previous day - 1380 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Japan continued to reel from the impact of a higher yen Tuesday as U.S. officials blamed trade barri

WHOLESALE PRICES, Percent change in producer price index, seasonally adjusted, July 1993-June 1994.<

On the basis of size alone ($1 trillion of market capitalization), emerging markets have become diff

The European Commission called Tuesday for a 25 percent increase in the value of quotas on imports o

California garlic producers are celebrating a Commerce Department sanction against Chinese imports.<

The Clinton administration is considering giving Russia a stronger guarantee of the lowest U.S. impo

Congress appears about to shift into higher gear to meet the Clinton administration's goal of implem

3 INVESTMENT OFFICERS DIE IN UKRAINE ACCIDENTBOSTON - Three investment officers of C

The value of new construction orders in the U.K. fell a provisional 13 percent in the three months t

Supreme Court nominee Stephen Breyer told the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday he was confident he

The story headlined "Allstate Life Executive Chosen To Head Fund," which appeared on Page 7A July 8,

The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents, stung by the defection of several state a

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. was fined a record $1.2 million for allegedly misrepresenting life i

INVESTMENT YIELDS HIT POSTWAR LOW IN JAPANTOKYO - The average investment yield of 30

The embattled Interstate Commerce Commission received a boost Tuesday from a long line of witnesses,

Lloyd's of London announced Tuesday the creation of a working group detailed to assess opportunities

As Congress debates sunsetting the Interstate Commerce Commission, a law it passed just last year to

Moody's Investors Services changed its review of Kemper Corp. from ''uncertain" to a "possible downg

TRIPP, SCOTT, CONKLIN & SMITH (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) - Carlos H. Galaniuk joined the full-service l

It was early in 1985 that as the new publisher of New York's oldest business newspaper I was invited

The radical Malaysian Islamic leader of the Al-Arqam movement, Haji Ashaari Muhammad, has proclaimed

Spanish unemployment fell to 17.14 percent of the workforce in June, compared to 17.37 percent in Ma

ANOTHER UNITED FIRST: EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIPCHICAGO - Unless the unexpected happens, sha

Financial giant Citicorp is telling investors that New York shipowner OSG Corp. is a good bet for th

Two hundred dockworkers in Liverpool, England, went on strike over the weekend because one of them h

Two companies promising to create more than 1,200 jobs won out in their bids to turn the Charleston

The Independent Review Board that oversees Teamsters union activities has cleared Ron Carey, union p

Despite a continuing push to outsource transportation, private-fleet carriage remains at the core fo

After some 20 years on the drawing boards, a railroad relocation project at the Port ofBrownsville i

Country Wide Transport Services Inc. said it has completed acquisition of Vertex Transportation Inc.

The governments of Mexico and Portugal have signed a civil aviation agreement, according to a statem