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The U.S. dollar rose slightly against the yen Wednesday despite repeated rounds of reported central

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sen. Steve Symms, R-Idaho, will try to amend the Senate clean air bill to weaken the government's po

The Sydney Futures Exchange's new computerized trading system is an ''unqualified success," Les Hosk

Shell International Petroleum Co. voiced "surprise and dismay" Wednesday over the Maritime Administr

Mar. 7, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low Vol.

China's main shipbuilder has announced plans to develop its technology and engineering and extend it

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

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

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

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

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

The extraordinary events in Eastern Europe are opening doors for U.S.-style futures trading.

1618 (Mar. 7, 1990) Previous day - 1614 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

Consolidated Rail Corp. is pushing a plan to revamp the often contentious system by which railroads

The Federal Maritime Commission will launch an investigation Friday of Matson Navigation Co.'s propo

Global interest rates - including long-term U.S. lending costs - should begin falling by July by up

Empresa Lineas Maritimas Argentinas SA, the state-owned Argentine shipping line known as Elma, is up

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

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

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

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

The U.S. Trade Representative has turned down a request by the U.S. pork industry to investigate rec

The local business community has to become better organized to cope with the city government's "Day

Keppel Corp., the diversified marine, property and financial group, Wednesday reported a record S$11

NEDLLOYD TO INCREASE SURCHARGE TO AUSTRALIANedlloyd Lines said it is increasing its currency

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

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

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

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

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