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U.S. business failures fell 6.3 percent in the first nine months of 1988, for the sharpest decline i

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The United States and China signed a new maritime agreement Thursday that officials of both countrie

CANADA TRADE SURPLUS NARROWED IN OCTOBERCanada's merchandise trade surplus declined by about

CANADA HIGH COURT STRIKES DOWN SIGN LAWCanada's highest court Thursday unanimously struck do

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

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

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

The International Wheat Council is forecasting that world wheat production could rise to a record le

Pittston Co. has struck a deal with Nippon Steel Corp. that calls for a $2 a long ton price increase

Sun Refining & Marketing Co., Philadelphia, Thursday raised its barge price for No. 2 fuel oil in Ne

The smile on the face of Jan Carlzon, president of Scandinavian Airlines System shone as brightly as

Air Canada Chairman Claude I. Taylor expects the Canadian government to sell its majority airline st

The long-awaited question of who George Bush wants as his secretary of agriculture has been answered

OMI CORP. (New York) - Peter P. Long was named senior vice president, administration, for the bulk s

There seems to be no sales forecast high enough for the heavy truck industry these days. Jus

A key question in the debate over whether or not the Port of Oakland should expand its real estate d

While defending banks' role in leveraged buy-outs, Comptroller of the Currency Robert L. Clarke warn

A key consultant's report on the future of the Port of Oakland has endorsed most of the port commiss

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

STEEL IMPORTS UP 7.1 PERCENT IN 1ST 10 MONTHS OF '88Steel imports rose 7.1 percent to 17.6 m

Scarlett O'Hara's hometown is for sale, and cash-rich Japanese investors are the principal targets o

Dockworkers appear to be going back to work at the key containerport of Tianjin after a strike at th

HOECHST CELANESE REMOVES SURCHARGEHoechst Celanese Corp.'s Chemical Group said it was removi

Formosa Plastics Corp., Parsippany, N.J., will become the second U.S. licensee of BASF Corp.'s gas-p

Lengthy testing in rats and mice to predict whether a chemical poses a cancer hazard in humans usual

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Strikes at two of South Korea's three largest shipyards are threatening to push the troubled industr

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The French government has approved a plan for Groupe des Assurances Nationales, the third-largest st

Zaire, locked in a diplomatic row with its former colonial ruler Belgium, has ordered its state-owne

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

A new mutual fund made up of an index of natural gas industry stocks may be approved by the Securiti

Only a day after international trade talks opened last week in Montreal, Frans Andriessen, the Europ

A formula used by shipowners and oil companies to analyze the cost of moving petroleum products acro

Waterfront employers on the East and Gulf coasts will resume contract negotiations with the Internat

BUSINESS INVENTORIES ROSE 0.2 PERCENT IN OCTOBERU.S. business inventories rose a moderate 0.

Natural gas prices for end users during the 1988-89 winter should average about 6 percent higher tha

CHEVRON INTERNATIONAL LTD. (San Francisco) - Gerald Fuller was named general manager for operations

Managers of electronic data interchange systems are not too worried about their systems being infilt