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

MALAYSIANS NOT GUILTY OF PIPE SUBSIDIZATIONThe Commerce Department announced its final deter

The European Monetary System has emerged as a stabilizer for West German exports, virtually guarante

Gotaas-Larsen Shipping Corp. announced Monday that a special shareholders' meeting will be held Dec.

Three years ago, Boeing Military Airplanes was looked on as a savior by Greenville, a depressed Miss

ILLINOIS CENTRAL LITIGANTS IN AGREEMENTCHICAGO - Illinois Central Railroad Co. and IC Indust

A reinsurance trade group reports that its members' net premiums written for the first nine months o

Eleven insurance companies have requested exemptions from rate cuts mandated by Proposition 103, Sta

The Japanese government will ask the United States not to conduct an investigation into Japan's cons

In February 1987 MIPS Computer Systems of Sunnyvale, Calif., a small start-up company with annual re

Nervous retailers faced with sluggish sales are counting on Santa to bring them out of the doldrums.

President-elect George Bush may get a traditional honeymoon after all. In the immediate afte

CF AirFreight has released the design of its planned $50 million international and domestic freight

CHRISTMAS TREES TO FILL MANY MATSON BOXESMatson Navigation Co. says it expects to carry more

Two bulk carriers and two maritime unions won an early procedural victory in their effort to halt a

With the trade sector continuing to bustle, the United States can look ahead to stronger economic gr

Tue., Nov. 22, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Anne M. Moise was named director of public relations at the South Carolina State Ports Authority. Sh

Average pay raises this year and next are expected to reverse a gradual seven- year decline and be t

A warehouse firm has requested approval by the Army Corps of Engineers to build a deepwater pier on

CHINA, ARCO TO DEVELOP NATURAL GAS FIELDSAfter years of negotiations, China and Atlantic Ric

Tim Dwyer, vice president for Sun Microsystems Inc., a computer company based in Mountain View, Cali

The outlook for an agreement among members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries dimm

U.S. Navy officials say they expect to start dredging San Francisco Bay by mid-1989 to prepare for t

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The internationalization of the financial markets may have advanced a step as a result of the Commod

ICI Americas Inc. announced plans to build two new plants for production of ozone-friendly substitut

The European Community Monday decided to withdraw trade preferences it had been granting to seven pe

PPG GROUP CONSIDERS THAI SILICAS VENTUREPPG Industries said that its Chemicals Group and Mit

Spurred by the success of a California referendum forcing insurance rate rollbacks, a Florida organi

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Discussions started Tuesday in Minneapolis to link Minnesota's booming medical and health-care equip

All that talk about a slowing economy has become a background murmur as economic analysts and financ

Canadian business has hailed the resounding victory of the Progressive Conservatives in Monday's ele

THE INITIALLY UNDISCLOSED STAKE H.L. Boulton SA acquired in Marlago SA, the Venezuelan-flag carrier,

Three former commissioners at the Port of Lake Charles face sentencing Jan. 31 after a jury convicte

DAIWA SECURITIES AMERICA (New York) - Robert DeMarco was named senior vice president, financial futu

1503 (Nov. 22, 1988) Previous day - 1495 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange i

Would-be railroad czar Timothy Mellon is considering taking an equity position in two small New Engl