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The U.S. dollar declined to its lowest level of the year against the deutsche mark Wednesday.

The U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve sold a total of $5.87 billion worth ofdollars for deut

REAL GNP IN JAPAN SHOWS 2.9 PERCENT INCREASEJapan's real gross national product rose 2.9 per

Evergreen International Airlines of McMinnville, Ore., again has taken it on the chin. The a

A container yard receiving charge will be imposed at Bangkok, Thailand's main port, beginning Jan. 1

The paperwork that corporations have created to keep their wheels turning can be mind-boggling.<

In the face of tighter air pollution standards, a Southern California company said it has developed

A triple whammy caused great damage to the economy of this city over several decades before it began

Winning its first big order for computer chips has given fledgling Alliance Manufacturing Corp. here

NORTH AMERICA Consumer Electronics Show. Jan. 6-9. Las Vegas. Contact Consumer Electronics S

* Gordon Platt - Credit Outlook 3A * EC 1992 Regulatory Roundup 4A* Richard Lawrence - Trade

A new generation of electronic messages will be potent tools for companies that want to monitor purc

A leaner Commodity Exchange Inc. is a reflection of disappointing trading at the the nation's larges

Don't expect the "poo-poo choo-choo" to leave the car barn anytime soon. Public indignation

The trial of three Argentine citizens accused of trying to extort $10 millionfrom E.I. du P

Insurance commissioners proved Monday that they are dead serious about monitoring the finances of "a

Gov. Thomas H. Kean and a state senator criticized the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Mon

Insurance regulators here may have had trouble getting top billing, what with the likes of Liza Mine

COST OF EXXON SPILL PUT AT $1.9 BILLIONTransportation Secretary Samuel Skinner said Exxon Co

Two senior executives at Sea-Land Service Inc. are getting new jobs as part of the containership lin

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Tue., Dec. 5, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas Board of Insurance appointed a 12-member board to the Texas Health Insuran

More than 40 oceangoing vessels began heading slowly toward Montreal under helicopter and tugboat su

Rising trans-Pacific container volumes aboard Korean and Japanese carriers are prompting the Port of

The USA-North Europe Rate Agreement announced a special equipment surcharge scheduled to become effe

Six months after Beijing's brutal military crackdown on dissent, Hong Kong bears few outward signs o

Britain's cargo shipping industry is too fragmented, and the smaller lines probably need to join for

In what may be the first business deal of its kind, a U.S. high-tech glass manufacturer has joined w

The European Commission is supporting urgent steps to help alleviate environmental problems the Euro

The National Mediation Board's new rules governing competing representation claims by railroad union

Small importers of jute goods from India are seeing their profit margins erode, as larger firms invo

The largest of Taiwan's three free trade zones is suffering a decline because of a tighter labor mar

The two major ocean carrier groups serving the trans-Pacific market, led by the promise of future t

Members of the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls, or Cocom, are wondering whet

Hvide Shipping Inc. has entered the offshore oil service supply business with the acquisition of eig

Dec. 5, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

1610 (Dec. 5, 1989) Previous day - 1629 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

Most management experts would agree that Alex Mandl, chairman of Sea-Land Service Inc., is correct

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