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Venezuelan President-elect Carlos Andres Perez is seeking a $3 billion bridge loan, mainly from the

BSI-BANCA DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA (New York) - Harry B. Folk was named first vice president, corpora

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

The Finance Ministry will significantly tighten regulations governing over- the-counter stock tradin

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

Out among the windswept wheat fields, a weathered old man patted the dog beside him as his pickup tr

The U.S. dollar declined broadly Wednesday on profit-taking in a thin holiday market. Tradin

The once-archaic Italian banking system is stepping into the modern world in preparation for the pla

INFERIORITY COMPLEX. For thousands of years, Henry Kissinger said, people have dealt with the Chines

FINLAND TO INCREASE IMPORTS OF SOVIET GASHELSINKI, Finland - Finland agreed Wednesday to inc

W.K. Lee has been the manager of Hyundai Corp.'s San Francisco office for only four days, but alread

British Aerospace PLC announced Tuesday a major reorganization of its loss- making civil aircraft di

U.S. ocean carriers say they are not forcing Far Eastern ports to use older electronic data intercha

Starting late next year, travel agents and travelers with personal computers will be able to make re

You don't have to be a computer techno-whiz to feel the pinch of the memory- chip shortage.

The TransPacific Westbound Rate Agreement said it would raise its currency adjustment charges for ca

DETROIT/WAYNE COUNTY PORT AUTHORITY (Detroit) - Michael E. McCarthy was named director of trade and

Textron Marine Systems, a division of Textron Inc., has been awarded a contract for the U.S. Navy's

The Port of Tampa had its second-highest year in cargo volume and a 20 percent boost in revenue in 1

The Maritime Administration has received applications for permission to transfer a barge and two dri

10-PORT DOCK STRIKE IN BRAZIL AT 9TH DAYSAO PAULO, Brazil - A dockworkers' strike affecting

Hundreds of miles from the nearest salt spray, a taste of the ocean is taking shape on the icy shore

The best stock picks among publicly held maritime companies are firms in thebulk shipping se

The Justice Department said it sees no potential antitrust problems in a plan by several small truck

American firms have the products and the marketing ability to increase exports to the Pacific Rim, t

The United Nations Development Program is virtually unknown in the United States, its top official a

The University of Wisconsin and Madison Gas & Electric Co. expect to open a new 10,000-square-foot r

CSX REWARDS WORKERS TAKING LOWER WAGENASHVILLE, Tenn. - CSX Transportation has awarded $36,0

US RESERVE ASSETS FALL $1.260 BILLION IN NOV.U.S. reserve assets fell $1.260 billion in Nove

The median resale price of a home in California climbed to $177,485 in November, up 1.2 percent from

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The Alberta government has given the green light to a company it controls to build a C$168 million c

Detroit business and economic leaders are predicting a stable, steady economy for 1989, with no big

South Korea plans to encourage joint ventures with firms in the European Community and to increase i

Japan's defense spending in the 1987 fiscal year ended within the controversial limit of 1 percent o

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Does the insurance industry need a federal blue-ribbon commission to provide the impetus for change

The $100 billion U.S. pulp and paper industry may be growing more slowly than most of its global com

Walter A. Abernathy, the respected executive director of the Port of Oakland for the past 11 years a

A major ownership reshuffle involving two European shipping consortia, Barber Blue Sea and ScanCarri