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FRENCH JOBLESS RATE UNCHANGED AT 8.9 PERCENTFrance's unemployment rate stood at a seasonally

A U.S. Department of Agriculture official said an ongoing drought and recent rash of wildfires in C

A New Jersey lawyer and a paralegal were the latest defendants to be charged in an alleged racketeer

A plan under consideration by the Bush administration to tax the purchase or sale of securities woul

West Germany may be the world's No. 1 exporter, but when it comes to farm machines, "Made in Americ

Tiphook Container Rental Co. named Jardine Shipping Services as its new agent in Malaysia and Thaila

TOKYO POWER DEMAND SURPASSES SUPPLYDemand for electricity in the Tokyo area is outpacing sup

1220 (Aug. 24, 1990) Previous day - 1221 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

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Aug. 27, 1990 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

Aug. 27, 1990 Copper Total, 8,623. Gold Total, .1,522,667.Silver Total, .254,001,158.

As Pennsylvania auto insurers look for ways to save money to offset rate rollbacks, a handful of th

Mallinckrodt Medical, a unit of Imcera Group Inc., reached agreement with Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical

GATT GROUP RESUMES FARM SUBSIDY TALKSThe key agricultural committee of the ongoing Uruguay R

W.R. Grace & Co. said it plans to cut toxic chemical emissions at its plants by an average of 50 per

BAYER REPORTS DROP IN PRE-TAX PROFITBayer AG reported pre-tax profit of 2.01 billion deutsch

The turmoil in fuel prices prompted by the crisis in the Middle East has ocean carriers wondering wh

While hordes of people seek foreign passports as insurance before China takes over, a Japanese busin

The weakening of the U.S. dollar to record low levels against the deutsche mark is causing serious t

Aug. 27, 1990 This table shows the vessels scheduled to call at U.S. coal terminals and the

Japan has oil reserves that would fill the nation's energy needs for 142 days, a top official said.<

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With onshore deposits beginning to fade, China is launching a 10-year program to reinvigorate overse

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KIRKLAND TO ATTEND LENINGRAD CONFERENCELane Kirkland, AFL-CIO president, was granted a visa

Nicaragua devalued its old currency 8.9 percent against the U.S. dollar Monday, but its recently cir

Australia risks losing hundreds of millions of dollars as a result of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and

The pell-mell growth of Malaysia's plastics industry means the country must work aggressively to exp

Worries over interest rates and the Middle East crisis have yanked the Tokyo stock market into a tai

With Mack Trucks Inc.'s financial plight worsening, principal shareholder Renault Vehicules Industri

Schenker AG, a subsidiary of the West German federal railway, is pooling its international operation

RAILROAD HIKES RATES 5 PERCENT-10 PERCENT ON PERISHABLESSAN FRANCISCO - Southern Pacific Tra

The '80s were boom times for most businesses, but Bechtel Group Inc. only recently has begun rebound

Austria's largest bank and its U.S. affiliate said they plan to assemble a $100 million fund by late

Legal wrangling over three U.S. liquefied natural gas tankers currently laid up in Rhode Island shou

New York Mercantile Exchange Aug. 27, 1990CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

Aug. 27, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Rescue teams found the bodies of 65 miners killed in a coal mine explosion in central Yugoslavia and