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The International Monetary Fund said preliminary data indicate the pace of Third World debt conversi

The U.S. dollar rose against the Japanese yen and was little changed against the deutsche mark Thurs

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

The pound sterling is set for another battering on foreign-exchange markets as worries about inflati

Bundesbank President Karl Otto Poehl said Thursday there is no targeted level for the deutsche mark

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

BANK LEUMI TRUST CO. OF NEW YORK (New York) - Zalman Segal, 51, was named vice chairman and chief e

The continued unrest in China and uncertainty over the country's political and economic future have

WORLD BANK PLANS 'GLOBAL' BOND ISSUEWASHINGTON - The World Bank plans to launch a $1.5 billi

Chile has returned to its inflation-based exchange rate system, thus eliminating the 0.3 percent mon

Thu., June 8, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

CONSUMER PRICES RISE 0.2 PERCENT IN WEST GERMANYFRANKFURT, West Germany - West German consum

Most U.S. importers who turned out at the opening of the first Chinese Garments Export Fair this wee

The former owner of the largest nickel mine in the Philippines plans to form a new joint venture to

AMAX GOLD INC. (Golden, Colo.) - Marvin K. Kaiser was named chief financial officer for the gold exp

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Coffee futures firmed Thursday on trade and speculative buying amid renewed optimism toward the Inte

HILLS: FARM QUOTAS WON'T BE DISMANTLEDWASHINGTON - U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills Thu

GOLD AND SILVER PRICES were battered in May by the strength of competing investment vehicles and the

The National Apparel and Textile Association is seeking federal help in moving $100 million in cloth

A plan to ease the alternative minimum tax for corporations drew business testimony ranging from str

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The Electronic Industries Association of Japan proposed a joint task force with the U.S. Semiconduct

* Customs Update 4A * Christopher Lofting - Executive Traveler 10A* Greg Johnson - Managing

The government reported Thursday that American businesses plan to increase spending on plants and eq

FIRST-TIME CLAIMS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT UPNew applications for unemployment benefits rose to a se

The brutal crackdown of the Chinese government on student dissidents may cast a pall on U.S.-Soviet

The present arguments about free trade must include serious discussion of free investment, said Feli

Britain's Transport and General Workers Union appealed in vain Thursday for its 9,400 registered doc

Bittersweet times lie ahead for the Italian Line. While profitability may be just around the corner,

The first few hundred of an expected wave of foreigners arrived Thursday from Beijing with tales of

U.S. shipbuilders made their first formal use of U.S. trade law in their longstanding battle to halt

One byproduct of the chaos in China is likely to be a significant shift of investment to Southeast A

Thyssen AG, the German industrial giant, has agreed to buy Amerford International Corp., a venerable

What do you do when millions of people have bought your cars but almost no one knows who you are?

CAN THE NATION'S RAILROADS SUSTAIN THE DEBT they're picking up through the acquisitions and mergers

NEW SUPERCONDUCTORS FOUND WITH LESS POWERRecent scientific findings indicate that new superc

Upheaval in China so far has not had any measurable impact on Hong Kong's port, which handles much o

U.S.-flag ship lines are not paid enough for their value-added services, said Jackson Baker, preside

A backlog of work at South Korea's strike-hit shipyards contributed to a substantial increase in the