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BECAUSE OPEC MEMBERS have been cheating on their quotas, pumping almost 24 million barrelsof oil a d

Exports of textiles and garments from the Philippines grew 34 percent in the first quarter, to US$43

Business executives in western Japan's historic Kansai region have cultivated a new respect for Midw

CZECHOSLOVAKIA HIRES US IMPORT CONSULTANTCzechoslovakia has hired Aegis Group Ltd., a Washin

China appears set to impose further restrictions on privately owned businesses, already suffering fr

Mon., April 9, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

* Albert L. Kraus - Markets & Money 3A * Import Quota Watch 4A* Commodity Research Bureau: G

NEDLLOYD LINES (San Francisco) - Two new staff members were named to the San Francisco traffic depar

POLYVINYL CHLORIDE RESIN BFGoodrich Co.'s Geon Vinyl division will raise prices for pipe-gra

YEUTTER SEES OPENING OF JAPAN RICE MARKETU.S. Secretary of Agriculture Clayton Yeutter said

Pepsico Inc. and the Soviet Union signed an agreement Monday to trade Pepsi- Cola for ships and vodk

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Resolving a 3-year-old impasse, the city's Board of Estimate last week approved a new lease covering

Workers in the Soviet Union's largest oil field have postponed until late April a planned strike ove

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

CORPORATE TAKEOVERS BY JAPANESE STILL RISECorporate takeovers by Japanese firms are increasi

The remaining hurdles to the foundation of the new European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., for 90 years a staunchly American-flag carrier, is eyeing foreign as well

A federal court has upheld a maritime agency's ruling that conferences may bar their carrier members

Grain shippers give a cautious thumbs up to Union Pacific Railroad for considering a revamp of its A

Cocoa prices were moderately lower as tensions eased in the Ivory Coast, the world's largest cocoa p

E. BLOC VOWS SUPPORT FOR SWEEPING REFORMSBONN, West Germany - Moscow and its reformist allie

VARD TO LIST SHARES ON LONDON EXCHANGECORAL GABLES, Fla. - The Olso, Norway-based parent com

Ensuring that the food served at this week's Passover meals is kosher takes more corporate planning

When he ripped across the island of St. Croix in September, Hurricane Hugo probably never gave this

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

DUTCH RAIL STRIKE OVER PAY CLOGS ROADSAMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Rail traffic in the Netherlan

Sophisticated software and new hardware make it easier than ever for business to engage in paperless

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In Afghanistan, where blood feuds and ancient tribal rivalries help to fuel an 11-year-old civil war

Ford Motor Co. said Monday that it would switch 225 million ($369 million) of investment planned fo

Canada, which has produced more crude oil than it needs each year since the early 1980s, could becom

Evergreen has agreed in principle to take 25 percent of a new airline in Macao, the Portuguese-admin

The EC, in an attempt to combat fraud, is set to introduce spot checks on not less than 5 percent of

H.J. Heinz Co. Monday said that by next year, it would sell ketchup in completely recyclable polyeth

East European farmers could be competing against the United States and the European Community in wor

Two founding members of the Industrial Biotechnology Association have resignedfrom theWashin

The cruise ship on which more than 170 people died Saturday in the North Sea suffered a fire off the

The Commerce Department said Monday it has canceled an aerospace trade mission to Iraq as U.S. lawma