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The U.S. dollar rose slightly Thursday in a quiet holiday market. Dealers noted that prices

Cyrus R. Vance was named a director, effective Jan. 1, and appointed chairman of the board of direct

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

Treasury Secretary Pedro Aspe flew to Washington for talks on Mexico's $102 billion foreign debt, th

The United Nations Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean has joined in the rising c

WHAT IT IS: Contracts to carry domestic airmail are big, profitable business for the nation's airlin

The Boeing Co., and not the Federal Aviation Administration, asked for inspection delays that will p

Japan's largest domestic airline, All Nippon Airways, finished the first six months of its fiscal ye

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A federal district court judge said she barred random and post-accident drug testing for truck drive

CF LAND ESTABLISHES NEW ACCOUNTS PROGRAMPALO ALTO, Calif. - CF Land Services Inc., a regiona

Electronic data interchange excites some people so much they want to sing forjoy. On

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES INC. (Purchase, N.Y.) - IBM has realigned its Personal Systems line

On the first day of Edi-fact the U-N gave to me one UN da-ta dic-tion-ary.On the se-cond day

SEA-LAND SERVICE INC. (Edison, N.J.) - Edward Aldridge was named general manager of sales within nor

The Puerto Rican administration and U.S. companies have began new investments that will expand the i

Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd. is saidto be planning its resignationfrom both the eastb

ALABAMA STATE DOCKS LEASES MOBILE SITEMOBILE, Ala. - The Alabama State Docks is leasing an 1

Susan Frank, the former commissioner of ports, international trade and commerce of New York City, ha

The U.S. Coast Guard is weighing whether to investigate further a collision last week between a Dutc

US PROTECTIONIST GROUP TARGETS TEXTILE IMPORTSA group of major U.S. importers and retailers

Atlantic States Association of Rail Shippers, annual meeting, Jan. 11. Philadelphia Hershey Hotel, P

The rally in coffee futures on the New York Coffee, Sugar & Cocoa Exchange Inc. is overdone based on

The price of platinum has regained much of its nearly $100 an ounce loss to last week's announcement

European Community trade ministers Wednesday approved a plan by the Italian government to restructur

This month's hostile takeover of Pillsbury Co. by Grand Metropolitan PLC, a British conglomerate, ma

European Community member nations provide more than $100 billion a year in subsidies to industry, ag

There will be accelerating growth in textile and apparel imports from the Caribbean and Mexico, the

Exporters must face up to challenges likely to mean a sharp drop in overseas sales, the colony's chi

Guatemala is starting to benefit from the four-year-old U.S. policy of giving trade preference to Ca

Canada and the European Community have resolved their longstanding dispute over discriminatory mark-

The sort of logistical empire-building that Royal Nedlloyd Group NV has under way in Europe might sp

Every move in Royal Nedlloyd Group NV's bid to map out a strategy for the 1990s and beyond is scruti

One more party has asked the Federal Maritime Commission for permission to participate in the wideni

Union Carbide Corp. has announced increases in prices for several specialty chemical products effect

PRAXIS BIOLOGICS INC. (Rochester, N.Y.) - Joseph Oren, M.D., has joined this disease-prevention comp

The European Community Commission said Wednesday it was fining 23 major petrochemical companies a to

The surplus in U.S. chemical trade narrowed sharply in October, but a Commerce Department official s

Rohm & Haas Co., a Philadelphia-based chemical manufacturer, announced price increases for many of i