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

DETROIT EDISON CO. (Detroit) - John E. Lobbia will become chairman, president and chief executive of

GROUP OF 7 AGREES ON US DOLLAR CEILINGMonetary authorities from the Group of 7 major industr

Mar. 7, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Voters in this city Tuesday overwhelmingly turned down a referendum that would have limited some ope

The Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury sold a total of $750 million worth of dollars for Japanes

INTEL TO SPEED UP CHIP-MAKING PROCESSSANTA CLARA, Calif. - Craig Barrett, Intel Corp.'s exec

BUSH VOWS TO WORK FOR ELECTRONICS LEADPresident Bush promised Wednesday to work toward helpi

The United States has 70 percent of the world's computer software market but could lose its lead wit

From today, Lloyd's of London, the world's biggest insurance market, will sell motor vehicle cover d

Allied-Signal Inc. said it filed a petition with the U.S. Trade Representative Wednesday requesting

The American Medical Association on Wednesday proposed revamping the nation's health care system by

BMA Corp. said Tuesday it would sell Business Men's Assurance Co. to one of Europe's largest insurer

S&P AFFIRMS AMBAC'S CLAIMS-PAYING ABILITYStandard & Poor's Insurance Rating Service affirmed

U.S. electronics companies are shifting more of their operations to Malaysia in a move further to in

A proposed agreement for wide-ranging cooperation between business giants Mitsubishi Corp. and Daiml

Connecticut insurance regulators see insurers' recent withdrawals from that state's automobile insur

TOKYO - Japan's Sony Corp. said Wednesday it soon will begin selling a small keyboard-less computer

NEC Corp. fell in line with the industry trend and government pressure Wednesday, announcing a semic

Less than two months after the Dominican Republic's acceptance into a European trade program, some

A top European Community official sought to ease U.S. fears Wednesday over its plan for a single ban

The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is looking for increased trade with the United States in 1990, and t

A national taxpayers group urged federal officials to end subsidies to the transportation industries

SP SIGNS PACT TO BUY FIBER OPTICS FIRMSouthern Pacific Transportation Co. has signed a defin

The air freight industry is asking the federal government to use its new national transportation pol

The Bush administration plans a "very significant reduction" of U.S. export controls on goods potent

Trailer Train Inc., the railcar pool subsidiary owned by the nation's major railroads, has been able

Evergreen Marine Corp. confirmed it is negotiating with Japan's Onomichi Dockyard for at least three

The telecommunications market for global paperless trading is heating up, withAmerican Telephone & T

Anthony Shih rattled off the reasons why he left Hong Kong to manufacture clothes in the Caribbean.<

The 13 steamship lines of the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement will maintain their 10 percent ov

HOUSE UPHOLDS VETO ON EASTERN INTERVENTIONThe House of Representatives Wednesday upheld Pres

The Canadian government is considering imposing provincial sales taxes on the billions of dollars in

TRADE SURPLUS WIDENS IN WEST GERMANYFRANKFURT, West Germany - The West German trade surplus

The timing of any increase in West German interest rates will be a key in any decision by British au

Wed., Mar. 7, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

THERE'S SOUND AND FURY in Congress about passing new clean air legislation limiting sulfur emissions

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FUEL TRUCK DRIVERS BACK TO WORK IN BRAZILSAO PAULO, Brazil - Brazilian truck drivers who dis

Their currency is named for the sun, but with inflation of nearly 3,000 percent last year, Peruvians