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CHINA STARTS WORK ON ITS LARGEST MINEChina has started construction on the country's largest

Litton Industries said its Houston-based oil services subsidiary, Western Atlas International, opene

Caribbean trade observers voiced disappointment at the Caribbean Basin Initiative bill approved las

The Tennessee Valley Authority said it bought 35,700 tons of coal in purchases made in three weekly

In the competitive air freight business, a smaller player needs to find a niche to thrive. Pilot Air

TRANSCO ENERGY PLANS INVESTMENTS IN GASTransco Energy Co. said its 1990 capital budget was $

Jettisoning the weight of questionable government support, Brazil's publicly owned airline, Viacao A

Ansett, Australian, East-West and Ipec - have been hiring military pilots, foreign pilots and charte

TEXAS AIR WILL PAY $280 MILLION TO EASTERNTexas Air Corp. has agreed to a recommendation by

After more than 10 years of severe price-cutting, Airborne Express is breathing a sigh of relief tha

Israeli exporters, who Wednesday welcomed a Treasury announcement of a nearly 6 percent devaluation

TOKYO STRESSES STABILITY IN CAPITAL MARKETSRyutaro Hashimoto, Japanese finance minister, Fri

CURRENT ACCOUNT SLIPS INTO RED FOR JAPANJapan posted a seasonally unadjusted current account

* Kevin Commins - Currency Forecast 3A * JofC Industrial Price Index 6A* Larry Kaufman - Ins

The government said Friday that sales of new homes fell 7.1 percent in January to their lowest level

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

Fri., Mar. 2, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

The story headlined "US Hopeful as Japanese Computer Talks End," which appeared on Page 1A in The J

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

States and the private sector should assume much of Washington's traditional role in funding and man

Major differences between the United States and the European Community are holding back progress in

With a potential national economic slowdown and the continuing grain car dispute as a backdrop, top

The Department of Transportation's eagerly anticipated national policy statement calls for a more co

Phillips Petroleum Co. will begin retailing propane as an automotive fuel this spring, and hopes to

European Community foreign ministers will renew their efforts today towriggle out of a fast-

PEROXIDES Atochem North America Inc.'s Organic Peroxides division increased prices for t-Amy

LME WEIGHS CHANGES IN FUTURES CONTRACTSThe London Metal Exchange is considering major change

The Senate and White House unveiled a compromise clean air bill Thursday that adopts strict cancer-r

Himont USA Inc., the nation's largest producer of polypropylene, raised prices for all grades by 3 c

World wheat output will have to rise significantly in the new 1990-91 (July- June) season if a three

''IT MAY NOT GET ANYMORE UPBEAT THAN THIS," said a futures trader about next week's Futures Industry

Gov. Jim Florio's automobile insurance plan is moving ahead at a breakneck pace in a legislative pro

Levi Strauss Associates Inc., the world's largest clothing maker, expects the decline of communism i

MARUBENI UNIT TO BUY 10 US GRAIN ELEVATORSColumbia Grain Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of

Californians braced for aftershocks Thursday following the most powerful earthquake to strike Southe

A landmark Harvard study on the hidden burden of medical injuries and negligence, released here Wedn

Base metals prices have moved up in the past few weeks, a rise that analysts attribute to the fading

RECORD DRILLING YEAR FORECAST FOR NORTH SEAOil price optimism means that a record number of

Arco Pipe Line Co. said it plans to begin the first phase of a project expanding its crude oil pipel

Redoubt Volcano is roaring back into action, dropping ash on Anchorage for the first time and causin