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The World Bank Friday took aim at the International Monetary Fund and voiced its support for Brazil,

Mexico has changed its strict laws regulating foreign investment in a bid to attract outside investo

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

Aug. 11, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Mapco Coal Inc. is working on a deal to acquire a northern West Virginia coal company as a means of

YES, VIRGINIA, SOME PEOPLE HATE EDIFACT. Not all EDI users are enthusiastic about global sta

Fred M. Zeder was sworn in as president and chief executive officer of the Overseas Private Investme

The Maritime Administration approved the transfer of construction subsidy contract obligations on th

JAPAN'S TRADE SURPLUS NARROWED IN JULYJapan recorded a trade surplus of $5.992 billion durin

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The U.S. government's call for an end to "discriminatory and restrictive" practices in Japan's steel

Colombia's chief International Coffee Organization negotiator has praised the removal of Jan Rosenba

Poor sales efforts on the part of U.S. companies are to blame for ongoing trade frictions between Wa

More than 3,000 people are preparing to leave a small area of the Russian republic where increased r

One of Atlantic City's major charter airlines is poised for a modest but methodical expansion that w

Is the U.S. medical system headed the way of Britain's troubled National Health Services? Mo

Britain's Department of Trade and Industry said Thursday that it was investigating alleged insider t

Coffee futures were sharply lower Thursday, trading at a new life-of-contract low of 79.55 cents a p

DOW UNIT, SHELL CANADA SIGN ETHANE CONTRACTDow Chemical Co.'s Canadian subsidiary said it ha

There are always questions about the goings-on at Cargill Inc., the giant grain trading firm based i

A group of Western and Soviet economists suggested steps to exchange the Soviet ruble freely with We

COAST GUARD MOVES DRUG PROBE AIRCRAFTThe U.S. Coast Guard has moved two drug interdiction pl

East bloc countries will make the greatest gains in tourism from the United States in the 1990s beca

Japan must begin to take over the current role of the United States as the major buyer of Pacific Ri

The seeds sown by deregulation of the U.S. airline industry are bearing fruit, as a renewed spate of

BACKGROUND: The 1921 Anglo-Irish treaty resulted in the partition of Ireland. Twenty-six counties in

The U.S. Postal Service may back the establishment of a permanent national hub for Express Mail ship

For the week ended Aug. 5, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 11

Many popular passenger rail routes across Canada may soon be shut down by a subsidy-weary Canadian g

Mexicana Airlines will be flying an international red-eye express when it begins the first non-stop

The marked tightening of U.K. economic policy since mid-1988 has begun to bite and is helping the go

ON THE ROAD AGAIN . . . Well this is it. Today is my last day as Insurance Editor of The Jou

Thousands of faded Army-green tariff binders are a step closer to becoming obsolete with the Federal

A sorghum exporter and a miller have begun using the new sorghum futures contract at the Kansas City

A power struggle has erupted in the once-quiescent Prudential Lines Inc. bankruptcy case, raising th

U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills' bid to strike an accord to curb the widespread use of state s

Last year, roughly 749,000 new boats were sold in the United States. Only four of them came from Bur

HOW TO USE: The following government bid opportunities are among the hundreds of such opport

Panoco, a Geneva-based international oil and natural gas exploration and production company and petr

FORD RECALLS TRUCKS FOR FREE REPAIRSDEARBORN, Mich. - Brake warning system problems and miss