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CONSUMER PRICE RISE HIT 0.2 PERCENT LAST MONTHConsumer prices rose 0.2 percent in July, matc

REGIONAL BLOCS Doing Business in Israel: Meeting the Challenge of 1992. Sept. 11. Short<

South Korean companies are reluctant to take out special foreign exchange loans for use later this y

The Multi-Fibre Arrangement is an international agreement originally designed to expand trade in tex

The French stock exchange Friday authorized a takeover bid for Compagnie Industrielle and its insura

STEEL IMPORTS INCREASE FOR 3RD STRAIGHT MONTHSteel imports rose in June for the third consec

A new congressional report blames the growing number of insurance insolvencies, particularly in the

The International Trade Commission in September will focus on three unfair trade practices complaint

INSURERS TO COMMENT ON ANTITRUST GUIDELINESThe California attorney general can expect "wheel

Exxon Corp. late last week told Alaska Superior Court that it did not violate any federal or state l

An increasing number of HMOs are altering their rules to allow patients the option of going to outsi

Highly successful trials of the antiviral drug AZT suggest that AIDS may soon become "a treatable di

Although the South Korean government has said that it plans to step up the liberalization of the nat

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

The U.S. dollar appears irrepressible now that recession fears have faded and the trade gap is narro

Some stock exchange analysts expressed dissatisfaction Friday over the pace set by a task force name

Time is turning into a constraint in western areas of the Midwest as corn, and to a lesser extent so

Investor Harold Simmons of Dallas may be launching a bid to acquire Georgia Gulf Corp., a $1 billion

CHINA BUYS US CORN FOR 1ST TIME IN 2 YEARSChina has bought U.S. corn for the first time in a

Most livestock and poultry producers appear to have outdistanced the impact oflast year's drought an

Claiming that a chemical firm "obstinately refused" to clean up pollution in Northwest Dade County,

Fast-growing Fame Plastics Inc., founded in Statesville, N.C. in 1980 and now operating two faciliti

CYANAMID EDIBLE OIL PRODUCTION PLANT MOVESWAYNE, N.J. - American Cyanamid Co. will move manu

Higher sugar prices helped push Cuban exports over the $1 billion mark and resulted in a $148 millio

With world cotton demand up sharply this year, growers say they will ask the Department of Agricultu

Friday's index was up 0.5 from a week ago and 0.1 higher than its level on Thursday. While m

The impact of by-products on live cattle prices has soared in the past few decades and should contin

CHICAGO YEN TRADER ENTERS NOT GUILTY PLEAChicago Mercantile Exchange yen trader Michael Chri

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Fri., Aug. 18, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Despite President George Bush's desire for lower interest rates, the easier- money faction on the Fe

Chile's debt with commercial banks is "perfectly manageable, given its low level," but the non-negot

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JAPAN SOON TO RESUME ECONOMIC AID TO CHINAJapan will soon resume economic assistance to Chin

INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION IN FRANCE RISES 1.5 PERCENTFrance's industrial production rose 1.5 per

MC Shipping Inc. is a ship owning company that charters out its ships to other operators. The compan

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They generally come in with vodka, wood and more vodka. They leave loaded with grain or industrial m

Cocaine and high explosives may soon have more in common than the element of danger. Officia