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The returns are in from the five-month battle for control of Xtra Corp., and they're anything but pr

Cash-flush South Korean and Taiwanese industrial investors were among the many who cheered Costa Ric

LABOR EXPECTS RULING ON DISPUTE IN RAIL SALERailroad labor officials expect a court ruling

The U.S. dollar was mixed Thursday, as attention focused on the Swiss franc, which continued to be t

TRUCK SHIPPERS ARE REACTING with glee as the Interstate Commerce Commission drops plans toallow moto

Soviet trading companies have no system to pay their bills since the central clearing bank doesn't w

As thousands of government employees walked off their jobs demanding more pay, a top official said t

Heavy flooding through Oklahoma and Arkansas continues to keep barge traffic off the 450-mile naviga

Total sales in Japan of U.S. beef products next year are expected to soar by nearly 50 percent to ab

The birds could finish them off. Missouri River watermen, hastening to their destinations be

Insurers might withdraw or limit policies insuring against marine pollution or natural disasters in

U.S. negotiators at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade talks in Geneva next week will submit

An agreement that will inject a new element of rail competition into New England and the rest of the

Arbitration Day '90. May 11. New York. Forum held by Society of Maritime Arbitrators Inc. Hilton Hot

The exhausted young traveler returned from Kenya with more than souvenirs andmemories of Kik

The Export-Import Bank and the Agency for International Development are expected to unveil today a p

Deep business-labor divisions over the causes of the crisis in the nation's workers compensation sys

"Greed" is the main ingredient in the increasingly common, sometimes devastatingly expensive insurer

0.1 PERCENT INCREASE EXPECTED IN PRODUCER PRICESU.S. producer prices are expected to show a

Officials with companies listed as having the nation's largest underfunded pension plans said Thursd

PAN AM SETTLES SUIT OF LOCKERBIE FAMILIESThe families of ground victims of the terrorist bom

Banks in Canada should be allowed to establish holding companies that could dabble in a range of non

Surely Malcolm Forbes, the late publisher of Forbes magazine (a.k.a. The Capitalist Tool), didn't co

ARCO CHEMICAL PLANS $2.5 BILLION EXPANSIONNEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. - Arco Chemical Co. plans to s

WHAT'S THE POINT of changing the police force if the rules are going to remain the same? That's prec

Phillips 66 Co. will fight all 575 alleged safety violations in connection with last fall's explosio

Representatives of five multinational trade houses Tnursday denied allegations, made by a senior Arg

The London Metal Exchange has approved Baltimore, the Bridgeport/New Haven area and the Chicago/Tole

Leaders of the Japanese petrochemical industry told Kabun Muto, international trade and industry min

EPOXY PLASTICIZER Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics Co. Thursday said the price of its Fl

Air Products and Chemicals Inc. said it will begin construction this summer of a 650-ton-a-day merch

UNICAFE LOWERS FORECAST FOR BRAZIL'S COFFEE CROPSANTOS, Brazil - Unicafe SA, one of Brazil's

Profit-taking sharply pared gains for Commodity Exchange Inc. copper futures Thursday, turning a 175

U.S. exporters are uncertain the Soviet Union's bid for wheat under the export bonus program will b

Lim Keng Yaik, Malaysian primary industries minister, Thursday said more consultations between the l

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

MITTERRAND PROPOSES EUROPEAN CONFEDERATIONFrench President Francois Mitterrand Thursday prop

NY COURT SAYS UTILITIES CAN'T BILL FOR DONATIONSALBANY, N.Y. - It's unconstitutional for uti

Rank and file members of the State Legislature shot down the proposal to eliminate the tax exemption