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Despite efforts to combine the two largest insurance agent trade associations, a merger is not likel

The dollar is likely to continue to fall as a result of inaction on the budget deficit, currency tra

Steve Jobs is making the headlines, but Unix is making the headway. It is not easy for a com

In a bank vault in Tulsa sits a 444-year-old rock that the People's Republic of China has insured fo

The Farmers Home Administration Friday mailed out the last of 83,480 delinquency notices to farmers

More import barriers are expected to fall this week when Brazil's top economic policy council consid

Deliveries of U-S.-made civilian aircraft will grow to $19 billion by 1992, a 15.8 percent annual in

The worst ever set of monthly trade figures forced the British government to hike interest rates Fri

In approving Proposition 103, California voters roundly stuck it to the insurance industry by callin

Sales of existing homes fell for a second straight month in October even though mortgage rates decli

* U.S. Approves First Foreign Futures Contract 6A * H. Erich Heinemann - First Crisis for Ge

GRAIN SHIPMENTS CLIMB AT DULUTH-SUPERIORDULUTH, Minn. - Foreign and domestic grain shipments

The price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil settled up 11 cents at $13.97 a barrel on the New Yor

LyphoMed Inc. and Vestar Inc. agreed on a modification of their joint venture for the development, p

New claims for state unemployment insurance benefits were made by 269,000 people during the week end

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FMC Corp. announced an expansion and upgrading of its food phosphates production facility in Lawrenc

An unlikely alliance between the governor of the Bank of England and the head of the West German Bun

After eight years of war, Iraq is moving to turn swords into plowshares by privatizing much of the s

President-elect George Bush named Brent Scowcroft to be his national security adviser, a post with b

The word-processing program WordStar will be marketed in Hungary under an agreement worked out betwe

Average weekly earnings of U.S. workers other than on farms rose 0.5 percent in October, after adjus

A union representing workers at International Paper Co. plants has launched a campaign attacking the

Minnetonka Corp. agreed to purchase the Vitabath product line, formerly owned by subsidiaries of Qui

QUANTUM RAISES GLYCERINE PRICESQuantum Chemical Corp.'s Emery division announced increases o

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

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Sales of U.S.-made cars and light trucks by the Big Three automakers fell 1.5 percent in mid-Novembe

The U.S. agency that provides insurance cover for U.S. companies investing abroad is organizing a se

COMMERCE FINDS JAPAN DUMPING DIGITAL GOODSThe Commerce Department issued a final ruling that

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

PEACH BOTTOM DECISION EXPECTED NEXT SPRINGPhiladelphia Electric Co. told the New York Societ

Container shipping is coming back to the Port of Quebec. The deepwater port on the St. Lawre

BARNETT BANKS INC. (Jacksonville, Fla.) - Albert D. Ernest Jr. was named president and chief operati

Baltic Shipping Co. is transferring from Felixstowe to Liverpool as its U.K. port of call for the li

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Braniff Inc.'s October traffic increased 22 percent to 371.0 million revenue passenger-miles from 30

The Maritime Administration sold three obsolete ships from the National Defense Reserve Fleet to Chi

The Bundesbank Wednesday eased pressure on the foreign exchange markets by draining less liquidity t

Sugar futures prices are expected to surge to highs near 17 cents a pound in 1989, given a sensitive