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E. GERMAN FIRM BUYS US-BASED ROYAL ZENITHMUNICH, West Germany - A state-owned East German pr

Foreign "direct" investment in the United States rose by between $63 billion and $68 billion last ye

CONSUMER PRICE INDEX RISES IN WEST GERMANYFRANKFURT, West Germany - The West German consumer

Economic reform has gone wrong in Argentina, inflicting a heavy burden on the people and leaving for

NY TO EXAMINE RISE IN HEATING OIL PRICESThe state will conduct a hearing later this month in

West Germany is widely expected to dominate initial trading with Eastern European countries, but thi

California's bitter auto insurance dispute is shaping up as the key battle in a weekend meeting of t

NEW COUNTRY NAME FOR BURMA. The U.S. Customs Service is not accepting Union of Myanmar for country-o

Coffee futures traded moderately lower Thursday. Nearby futures contracts on the New York Co

Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter told wheat growers Thursday that developing countries can be g

Jan. 11, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low Vol.

1655 (Jan. 11, 1990) Previous day - 1652 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Donald D. Black Jr., North Carolina State Ports Authority marketing manager, will relocate his offic

An engineering firm based here stands to earn a fee of up to $10 million byhelping build a $

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

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0.5 PERCENT RISE PREDICTED FOR PRODUCER PRICESWeather-related increases in some food and ene

James Herman, president of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, was named pres

Soaring natural gas prices have led methanol producers to post price increases of 7 cents a gallon f

Mexico's coffee exports in the current marketing year could plummet as a result of freezing temperat

GNP Commodities is negotiating the sale of its retail commodity futures operations to Balfour MacLai

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Wealthy Japanese are buying million-dollar properties in Beverly Hills, fast- food companies have fo

High interest rates that helped push the Canadian dollar to a nine-year peak have enraged exporters

UNITED HOPES TO FLY CHICAGO-TOKYO ROUTEUnited Airlines has asked the Department of Transport

For the person who eats out a lot, a discount dining card slices the tab down to size. Three

Pennsylvania Attorney General Ernie Preate Jr. charged that the heating oil crisis is "artificial" a

A Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm said it is assembling a consortium of companies interested

The Chicago Board of Trade, in a detailed report, charged that the Italian grain firm Ferruzzi Finan

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT everything was settled, it's not. That's what the Port of Philadelphia

NEW YORK RAIL SHIPPERS have mixed feelings over CP Rail's winning bid for the Delaware & Hudson Rail

United Kingdom chemical production is expected to increase by only 1 percent in 1990 after a 4 perce

The heavy truck market continued to slump last month, ending the year on a sour note for buyers and

The expected softness this year in the U.S. automotive and construction industries will not signific

International Commerce Club of New Jersey. Jan. 17. Convent Station, N.J. Dinner speaker will be Wil

The chief executive of the Waterford Wedgwood PLC crystal and china group told his workers Thursday

A seven-day trade fair mounted here by the Chinese city of Shanghai drew more than 10,000 business v

The dollar was mixed Thursday in a quiet and meandering market. Dealers said the dollar was

Yugoslav Communist Party politician Slobodan Milosevic is believed capable of winning a free electio

French Finance Minister Pierre Beregovoy urged Japan Thursday to do more to open up its domestic mar