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The Supreme Court has refused to hear accounting firm Peat Marwick Main & Co.'s challenge to a lawsu

* Albert L. Kraus - Markets and Money 3A * Rosalind Rachid - Trade Talk 4A * Import Quota Watch 4A *

The property/casualty industry is facing a year of price "stabilization and reassessment," in 1990,

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

The Piper Alpha oil rig disaster in the North Sea in July 1988 has claimed its first victim in the i

After-tax profits of U.S. manufacturers were unchanged at a seasonally adjusted average of 4.9 perce

Mon., Dec. 11, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Earl R. Pomeroy sank into a chair at one end of a deserted conference table one day last week and li

Federal bureaucrats and private insurers are scrambling to rework health insurance benefits, adjust

Despite a recent international ruling, the U.S. fight against the European Community's oilseed produ

TODD TO SELL ARO TO INGERSOLL-RANDTodd Shipyards Corp. said Monday it entered into an agreem

The United States appears certain to regain its place as the world's top merchandise exporter this y

The Supreme Court Monday limited the way multinational corporations can use foreign tax laws to redu

A local consortium agreed Monday to a US$270 million takeover of strugglingWyse Technology I

UK PRODUCER PRICES ROSE 0.2 PERCENT LAST MONTHU.K. producer output prices rose by 0.2 percen

Duty-drawback operations will become a prime focus of activity at Panalpina USA, one of the nation's

A draft plan to deregulate the shipping industry is getting mixed reviewsfrom industry, whic

A political intelligence firm predicts that Japan will begin making massive investmentsin the Soviet

Japan's MITI Seeks Import Promotion FundJapan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry

WATER INDUSTRY SALE IN UK OVERSUBSCRIBEDThe government's $8.3 billion sale of its water indu

Some vessels may become trapped in the Great Lakes for the winter as a result of severe navigation p

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State transportation officials called for large increases in federal spending to repair aging roads

Flying the flag of the Marshall Islands isn't for every shipowner, says Howard B. Zeder, who runs th

COURT HEARS ARGUMENTS IN ARK. TRUCK TAX CASEUp to $160 million was at stake last week when t

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

The director of Nebraska's Insurance Department is William H. McCartney. His name was misrendered in

The phones constantly jingle in Tyco Industries Inc.'s near-empty warehouse in Moorestown, N.J.<

ARGENTINA INTRODUCES BIG ECONOMIC CHANGESBUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina devalued its au

KINTETSU TOKYO UNIT TO HANDLE PERISHABLESROSLYN HEIGHTS, N.Y. - Kintetsu World Express (USA)

Georgia-Pacific Corp. took another step in its increasingly nasty fight to acquire Great Northern Ne

Stringent rules to prevent the United States becoming wholly dependent on foreign suppliers for its

The U.S. Bureau of the Census is issuing its vast supply of trade and commercial data on compact dis

Signs of a shakeout among software suppliers in the electronic data interchange industry are apparen

The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority has vowed to oppose a plan to convert a 114-acre shipping t

Moshe Sanbar, chairman of Bank Leumi le-Israel Ltd., said a group led by Drexel Burnham Lambert was

Ten years before China is to regain sovereignty over this tiny Portuguese- admin istered enclave on

American and South Korean kiwi growers plan a coordinated effort to frustrate any Korean consumer ba

County Natwest, Guinness, Lloyd's of London, Alexander Howden, UBS Phillips and Drew, Morgan Grenfel

Evergreen International SA said Monday it will switch 14 ships from the Panamanian flag to the flag