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Japan's embarrassingly massive trade surplus will not dramatically decline this fiscal year, a prom

A showdown may be looming between the currency market and the world's major central banks. C

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

SEAMEN'S BANK FOR SAVINGS (New York ) - Lawrence Daly was promoted to vice president of the bank.

Fri., Feb. 3, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

SERVICE SECTOR INDEX UP 2.9 PERCENT IN DECEMBERNEW YORK - The leading index of U.S. service

U.S. Agriculture Secretary-designate Clayton Yeutter's comments that the Bush administration will su

If President Bush has wasted no time in reaching out to Congress, he also has not missed a beat in d

Representatives of the North American electronic data interchange community now have a bureaucracy t

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1584 (Feb. 3, 1989) Previous day - 1607 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

NEW NETWORK PRODUCTS INTRODUCED BY AT&TYORK - American Telephone & Telegraph Co. is introduc

The American Trucking Associations, Alexandria, Va., has created a Management Systems Council to hel

Pilot Air Freight, a privately held forwarder with headquarters in the Philadelphia area, is adding

Apollo Computer Inc., a leading maker of computer workstations, announced Wednesday that it has the

In December 1986, Nick Ruddick, a Unisys Corp. vice president, bet his team of computer cowboys that

HAWK OF CONNECTICUT INC. (Danbury, Conn.) Frederick C. Timm was named regional international sales a

Thirty-six Japanese and foreign airlines operating out of Japan have agreed to clamp down harder on

The state of Washington said it will campaign to end a shortage of air cargo space on routes from Se

CONTINENTAL CHIEF QUITS AFTER ONE YEAR AT POSTHOUSTON - Martin Shugrue, who took over as pre

COASTAL CORP. (Houston) - Clark Johnson joined Coastal as president of Coastal Mart Inc., its retail

COMPANY SET TO HELP SAUDIS INVEST IN JAPANThe Arabian Oil Co. of Japan announced it is ready

World crude oil output in January averaged 49.6 million barrels a day, down 4 million b/d from Decem

A newspaper report Thursday that Dubai is to cut its crude oil output in February or March is "nonse

International Minerals & Chemical Corp.'s Mallinckrodt Inc. specialty chemicals unit will begin maki

International Minerals & Chemical Corp., which in the past year pulled awayfrom its traditio

Connecticut doesn't devote enough money or workers to the task of cleaning up hazardous waste sites,

So you've socked away a few clamshells and hope to buy a little sailboat to dabble around with on th

Chemical weapons talks at the United Nations ended after three weeks of work Friday with little sign

EC SEEKS TO RECONCILE EXPORT CONTROLS EFFORTSBRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Community is r

NEW YORK - Jerome Karter was named president and chief executive at Scor Re, the U.S. reinsurance su

Texas oilman Robert Mosbacher was sworn in as secretary of commerce Friday, pledging to help America

Two auto insurance firms have asked the state for rate increases that would apply to 47,000 cars.

In an "Inside Talk on Insurance" item appearing on Page 5A in the The Journal of Commerce of Friday,

Two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court sounded the death knell for the 50-mile container-handling ru

Maritrans Partners LP said its net income for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 1988, totaled $3.9 million,

CALIF. SENATE REJECTS POLICY RENEWAL BILLSACRAMENTO, Calif. - The California Senate late las

Prices of ocean freight futures contracts lost ground for the second week in a row last week, in lin

* JofC Industrial Price Index: Aluminum 6A * Kevin Commins - Currency Forecast 7A* Milan Sve

Companies involved in mergers or buy-outs slowed their spending on research and development in 1986