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WORLDWIDE EXPANSION EXPECTED TO CONTINUETaiwan, Japan and South Korea will set the pace in A

New York state's unemployment rate for December stood at 4.6 percent, an 0.3 percent increase from N

Carla Hills, unanimously approved Friday by the Senate Finance Committee as the next U.S. trade repr

U.S. companies shopping for office space in a tight market in Moscow are looking to acquire the bugg

The U.S.-Canadian trade liberalization agreement probably will lead to more U.S. investment in Canad

Prices of ocean freight futures contracts came down hard last week. Early in the week, trade

Ridding the highways of unsafe truck drivers has never been easy. Now, a new organization is trying

Euro Pacific New Zealand Line Ltd., a London-based company trading between Europe and Australasia, h

Borrowers upset about their bankers aren't just taking their business elsewhere these days.

The Asian share of foreign gross activity in U.S. stocks exceeded European gross transactions for th

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A U.S.-Japan free trade agreement may sound promising in theory, but in reality it would do little t

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Again the adage proves true.This is the essence of what hap

Anne Aylward, maritime director for the Massachusetts Port Authority, sees inland transportation and

A "romantic conception of Socialism" and an impractical system of subsidies destroyed Vietnam's econ

The European Community Commission Thursday said its competition authorities cleared the acquisition

COAL OUTPUT DECLINES AT AMERICAN ELECTRICLANCASTER, Ohio - American Electric Power Co. Frida

A contract to carry more than 200,000 tons of coal from Virginia to Egypt has been awarded by the U.

While legislators wrangle over proposed reforms for insurance regulation in Texas, administrative pe

CALIFORNIA TO PROBE STATE FARM ACTIONSState Farm Insurance Cos. will face hearings March 9-1

Toyota Motor Corp., Japan's leading auto manufacturer, said it is looking into the possibility of la

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

Fri., Jan. 27. 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Hoechst Celanese Corp.'s Technical Fibers Group is planning an expansion of dimensionally stabilized

U.S. oil consumption reached a record 17.01 million barrels a day in 1988, and will increase to 18.6

Hercules Inc. announced price increases, effective March 1, 1989, for several Di-Cup peroxides used

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. became interested in the potential of a Soviet heart drug back in the

HONG KONG UPGRADES TEXTILE LICENSE SYSTEMA US$1 million computer upgrade was formally inaugu

The New York Power Authority said it will take its Indian Point 3 nuclear power plant out of service

The London-based Shipowners Mutual Strike Association, sometimes called the ''strike club," has offe

Safeco Corp. reported that operating income in the fourth quarter ending Dec. 31, 1988 was $68.74 mi

The American Tort Reform Association will hold its national conference Tuesday in Washington. For mo

NYMEX APPROVES LINK WITH CME GLOBEXNEW YORK - Members of the New York Mercantile Exchange ha

GROLIER INC. (New York) - Robert B. Clarke, chairman and chief executive officer of this major diver

The U.S. economy shook off the effects of the stock market crash and the drought to grow a robust 3.

IN 1989, THE U.S. COAL INDUSTRY will finally produce nearly 1 billion tons of coal in a single year.

Trade finance sources say American President Companies Ltd., the Oakland, Calif.-based shipping and

United Parcel Service has extended its test of on-demand pick-up service to Philadelphia and so far,

The airline industry will continue to grow at a modest pace in 1989, but the year will show slow pro