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

CAMEROON - $34.6 million from the World Bank for goods and services to expand livestock production.

Traders are divided over whether the dollar's recent rally can be sustained in the face of coordinat

The secondary market for developing country loans is fast becoming one of the major investment banki

Japan's two biggest securities companies, Nomura Securities Co. and Daiwa Securities Co., said Frid

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

Higher prices for oil and plywood contributed sizeably to a new Journal of Commerce Industrial Price

LDC DEBT TO BE HIGH ON GROUP OF 7 AGENDAWASHINGTON - The Third World debt crisis will be hig

In the face of mounting confusion over an anti-inflation plan being formed by the Brazilian governm

County NatWest Government Securities Inc. Friday announced that it had disbanded its U.S. primary de

Thu., Jan. 12, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

FRANCE REPORTS DEFICIT IN BALANCE OF PAYMENTSFrance had an estimated seasonally adjusted bal

European Community member countries have asked the European Commission for detailed information on a

Metal exports by the Philippines last year grew nearly 42 percent to top the $1 billion mark, the Bu

REGIONAL BLOCS The Threat of Regionalization to World Trade: The Case of the U.S.-Canada Tra

JAPAN SAYS IT FINDS CHEMICALS IN US RICETOKYO - Tests on rice grown in the United States con

JAPANESE PANEL SEEKS MORE WORK HOUR CUTSFurther cuts in working hours are needed to give "wo

A Commerce Department export seminar produced a small debate on the European Community's plans for i

INTERNATIONAL PAPER TO BID FOR EUROPE FIRMPURCHASE, N.Y. - International Paper Co., which po

European employers and workers moved to set up the basis for a stepped-up social dialogue that shou

The Caribbean's preferential market for bananas sold in the European Community will be protected aft

It's Thursday afternoon at Taipei High School, and 100 Chinese teens are gagging at slides of blacke

William Von Raab has been a rather controversial commissioner of Customs since Oct. 13, 1981, but he

William Von Raab, relentless proponent of automation, said the electronics programs he pushed during

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On a run to Oklahoma City a few years ago, a driver for Sunstar Foods Inc. discovered a few broken j

INGERSOLL-RAND BUYS SILVER ENGINEERINGWOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. - Ingersoll-Rand Co. has acquired

FLOWERS INDUSTRIES INC. (Thomasville, Ga.) - Robert P. Crozer was elected vice chairman. He was vice

ALLIED, UNIONS ALLEGE DUMPING OF PRESSESTwo unions and a major producer of automobile parts

The Interstate Commerce Commission's denial of Canadian National's bid for trackage rights over the

Bulk cement has begun moving into a new storage silo at the Port of Georgetown, S.C., leading to exp

Lawsuits involving faulty products and consumer injury have increased fourfold since 1976, but most

The New York Insurance Department announced its intention to expand its regulation of financial guar

Insurance Commissioner Roxani Gillespie cited seven Fireman's Fund companies last week for refusing

ALEXANDER & ALEXANDER INC. (New York) - Roger W. Clark was named managing vice president of the Denv

U.S. spending on health-care costs, which reached $500.3 billion in 1988, are expected to keep climb

KEMPER CHIEF TO HEAD INDUSTRY ORGANIZATIONGerald L. Maatman was named chairman of the Insura

State Attorney General John Van de Kamp has accused Gov. George Deukmejian of refusing to uphold the

Private insurers that help the government process its health insurance programs have allowed their c

STRONG IMPORTS SEEN WIDENING TRADE DEFICITEconomists say the United States continues to suck