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BRITISH INFLATION REMAINS STEADY AT 6.4 PERCENTBritain's retail price index rose 0.5 percent

In a multimillion-dollar victory for insurance companies, the state Supreme Court ruled last week th

Lumber production, orders and shipments increased in 12 Western states in the week ended Dec. 9, a t

INDEX POINTS TO SOFTERUS GROWTHColumbia University's leading indexes of U.S. economi

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Brazil will end 1988 with record annual inflation of more than 900 percent, and a social pact to avo

Japan may well join the rest of the world on the higher interest-rate bandwagon but it will do so qu

The Social Security commissioner said Friday she'd like every worker to have a personalized statemen

The Association of American Railroads' board of directors has authorized its staff to talk with the

The planned $880 million merger of Federal Express Corp. and Tiger International Inc., parent of the

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

Extroverted Europe-oriented insurance companies with ambitions to eat rather than be eaten are likel

The Soviet Union now takes an economic offensive east to Asia following Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gor

European shipping lines and those based in Asian countries other than China will lose access to some

A multilateral shake-up in Hong Kong's maritime sector is rearranging the players and interests asho

Hermann J. Strenger, chairman of the West German chemicals group Bayer AG, tapped his finger on the

The debate over individual exemptions to the Voluntary Restraint Agreements, or VRAs, on imported st

LAWMAKER URGES BRADY TO DEVELOP FSLIC PLANA member of the House Banking Committee called on

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

REQUIRED ENTRY DATA UNDER CERTAIN SCHEDULE 8 TSUSA PROVISIONS. Several provisions in Schedule 8, Tar

Thu., Dec. 15, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture set the calendar 1989 U.S. sugar import quota at 1.125 million me

AS PRESIDENT-ELECT BUSH'S CHOICE for U.S. agriculture secretary, Clayton Yeutter has reached the sec

West Germany announced a hike in a key interest rate Thursday as part of a round of rises in Europea

EC PLANS TO PROBE PHOTO ALBUM DUMPINGBRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Community announced Th

Britain's Midland Bank PLC invested about 96 billion lire ($74 million) to become the largest shareh

The incoming Bush administration must not wait too long to come up with a reasonable solution to the

Millions of Yugoslavs who ease their economic woes by smoking will have to pay about twice as much f

Two trade events highlighting the strong if troubled economic ties between the United States and Tai

The U.S. dollar was broadly higher Thursday on indications of a tightening of money supply by the Fe

This country, the East bloc's version of a shoppers' paradise, is fighting off a glasnost-inspired o

San Diego Export CouncilElects GrigsbyHugh Grigsby, the California Export Finance Of

Japanese and American tourists and businessmen can travel to each other's countries without a visa u

TAIWAN BOOSTS IMPORTS OF US TURKEY MEATTAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's import ceiling for U.S. tur

The European Community Thursday ordered its member states to deregulate the telecommunications servi

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

The European Commission said Thursday it was worried by the increasing amount of unauthorized state

Because a Japanese sees red if handed a gift wrapped in white, a pair of Connecticut entrepreneurs a

Japan's Toshiba Machine Co. is shipping millions of dollars worth of goods into the United States wh

National chambers of commerce of a number of developing countries in the non- aligned movement will