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US, S. KOREA NEAR DEAL ON FIGHTER JETSIn what promises to be an instant replay of the recent

The 12-day trip that Washington Gov. Booth Gardner is making to Europe is expected to feature everyt

The World Bank and its affiliate, the International Development Association, expanded their combined

In 1984, in the midst of the property/casualty liability crisis, the West Virginia legislature passe

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

TEXTILE IMPORTS FALL FOR FIRST TIME IN 1980SFor the first time in the 1980s the United State

FINANCE/INVESTMENT Foreign Tax Credit Planning. July 13-14. Chicago. Advanced-level workshop

The ongoing legal entanglement between the co-owners of Miami's World Trade Center building has crim

A lawyer for Fireman's Fund Insurance Cos. subsidiary went to court Friday to keep a Fireman's subsi

A tug-of-war appears to be developing over the dollar. On one side, interest rate differenti

Slowing exports and expanding imports caused Japan's current account surplus to fall by 39.2 percent

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

The United States announced at the weekend it had resolved a trade dispute with the European Communi

BANK ONE, TEXAS (Columbus, Ohio) - Thomas E. Hoaglin, chairman and chief executive of Bank One, Dayt

EC INFLATION RATE DECLINED DURING MAYBRUSSELS, Belgium - European Community inflation averag

MEXICO REJECTS OFFER FROM CREDITOR BANKSNEW YORK - Mexico has rejected the latest proposal f

Once again there is trouble ahead in U.S.-Japanese relations. This time, it stems from what the Japa

Fri., June 30, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

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FACTORY ORDERS PLUNGED 2.5 PERCENT IN MAYOrders received by U.S. factories, a measure of the

Southeast Asia's leading economic powers open their annual foreign ministers' meeting today, to be

DEHYDRATED WATER - a gigantic research project funded by the government to solve transportation, sto

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Plywood and crude oil, two of the strong forces behind the two-week climb in the Journal of Commerce

A story beginning on Page 1A of the June 29 edition of The Journal of Commerce, under the headline "

The Postal Service announced that it will begin setting up operations in major shopping malls across

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

An international agreement that stabilizes world coffee prices could fall apart today, leaving the c

House Agriculture Committee members have started looking at farm bill options - including trimming e

The mayor of Lackawanna says his city would be better off if Bethlehem Steel Corp. packed up and lef

The nation's largest shippers' group has joined the effort to get the Federal Maritime Commission to

Lured by the prospect of a European central drug approval agency, a U.S. clinical drug research firm

CANADIAN FARMERS BOOST GRAIN ACREAGECanadian Prairie farmers have increased the area of all

Waterfront workers and their employers agreed late last week to extend their current labor contract,

Shipping line executives and shippers say built-in protection against currency fluctuations should l

The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Friday lent her support to a key congressma

The China Ocean Shipping Co. has reportedly threatened to leave the Port of San Francisco over the c

U.S. computer software producers who only recently breached Brazil's contested reserved market are c

U.S. bankers are concerned. And why shouldn't they be? Japanese banks are no longer merely closing i

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