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Small and medium-sized U.S. companies fearful of a Fortress Europe can use Ireland's Marketing Partn

After years of relatively high-profile but low-impact work on auto insurance issues in Congress, Rep

USDA COTTON ESTIMATE BEARISH FOR FUTURESThe U.S. Department of Agriculture's 1989-90 (August

Speculative buying and traders' pent-up frustration lies behind the recent rise in gold prices, and

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China Thursday released more tantalizing but deliberately vague clues about its production of gold,

JAPANESE FIBER MAKERS REPORT HIGHER SALESFour of seven major Japanese synthetic fiber produc

Britain Thursday banned milk sales by more than 900 farms because of lead- tainted feed that killed

In terms of polluting the environment, plastics have gotten a bad rap, say some. The public

Climax Molybdenum Co. of Greenwich, Conn., said it is reducing its list price for molybdic oxide in

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Executive Committee Chairman Leo Melamed urged U.S. authorities not to i

Phillips Petroleum Co. says it will rebuild a smaller version of the high- density polyethylene plan

WORLD BANK SIGNS PHILIPPINE LOAN PACTSThe World Bank Thursday signed three loan agreements t

FERRUZZI DENIES ACTION AGAINST FORMER TRADERSFerruzzi France denied it was taking legal acti

AQUINO SEEKS BOOST IN TRADE WITH USPhilippine President Corazon Aquino said Thursday more tr

Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., one of the colony's largest and most diversified conglomerates, is selling t

PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION 6030, ANNEX I: FACT SHEET #3. Presidential Proclamation 6030, Section 242,

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT - WHAT IT IS: Structural adjustment relates to the actions a government takes

U.S. business executives, hard pressed to say which way the political wind is blowing in China, are

The U.S. dollar was mostly higher Thursday, turning up after the Federal Reserve drained reserves.

Rhode Island lawmakers will likely be asked to fine tune state workers compensation law to protect t

FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN TAIWAN SOARS 110 PERCENTTAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan approved foreign inves

Anxious about Africa's dwindling share of global investment, the continent's business leaders are pl

The first anniversary of California voters' approval of Proposition 103 passed with citizens still w

Robert P. Cuthbert was named first vice president and chief financial officer, new positions, at Cor

Commerce Insurance Co., a primary automobile insurer in Massachusetts, wants a state judge to rescin

FRENCH INSURER TO TAKE CONTROL OF CHILEAN FIRMUnion des Assurances de Paris, or UAP, the lea

The first comprehensive report on Hurricane Hugo's assault on South Carolina puts the damage at $4 b

Large shippers and well-managed motor carriers will have the upper hand while small, expensive truck

Despite some reforms, questions persist about possible fraud and abuse in the system for transportin

The departure Thursday of China's paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping, from his last official position i

The U.S. District Court in Washington this week denied a motion to block Sea Containers Ltd.'s $1.1

FRENCH AIRLINE UTA ORDERS 6 AIRBUS JETSTOULOUSE, France - French airline UTA ordered six Air

Nedlloyd Lines said beginning in early December it will upgrade its North America-Australia service

The Jones Act provisions protecting domestic shipping may be changed within the next year. T

Some of Brooklyn's unemployed dockworkers will go back on the job Dec. 1 when American Stevedoring L

A pioneering plant to convert natural gas directly to petroleum products expects to export up to 80

Some European utilities may be onto a hot new commodity - U.S. Western coal. In what many so

PITTSTON, UNION TEAMS MEET FACE-TO-FACEBargaining teams representing striking mine workers a