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China's highest governing body is preparing to tighten further controls on institutional spending as

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Facing allegations that he used his port position to solicit legal business and a free ride on the C

Lithium Corp. of America announced list price increases of 3 percent to 6 percent for several produc

US West Financial Services Inc. will reduce its posture in airplane leasing, the company said.

SUPERCOMPUTERS RECORD FASTEST SPEEDS EVERCHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Several supercomputer programs ha

The plan to reorganize the group of companies clustered around the bankrupt United States Lines Inc.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Indian Commerce Ministry are expected to sign a memora

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A leading Polish shipbuilding executive Wednesday sought to reassure worried Western shipowners that

Insurance brokers might be left footing some of the bills for the world's worst single insurance los

Slow and outdated business practices are to blame for the plight in which several Lloyd's insurance

Public interest in the U.S. presidential election is rising in Japan, mainlybecause many Jap

MUNICH RE APPOINTS NEW BOARD MEMBERSFRANKFURT, West Germany - Helmut Haeusgen will retire fr

A California arbitration panel has ordered six reinsurers to pay the Mission Insurance Co. $92 milli

ARGENTINA - $1.25 billion from the World Bank, comprising $400 million for banking reform, $300 mill

Wed., Nov. 2, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

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Foreign trade statistics on petrochemicals showed polypropylene leading exports in August, according

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Martha Hesse said she will continue to speed deregulat

SUN COMPLETES PURCHASE OF ATLANTIC PETROLEUMSun Co. of Philadelphia said it closed Tuesday o

One week after the controversial seizure of an Eastern Airlines jetliner carrying cocaine from Colom

TRAFFIC AT ROTTERDAM FLAT IN THIRD QUARTERROTTERDAM, Netherlands - Rotterdam, the world's la

Huge losses by American Freight System Inc. and Transcon Lines Inc. prevented the nation's largest t

Marine Transport Lines Inc. continued its financial turnaround in the three months ended Sept. 30, p

Farmers might face serious cash-flow problems next year as a result of the 1988 drought, according t

Despite its name, FATA Automation (USA)'s interests extend far beyond automation-related products an

In a move aimed at resuscitating Delaware River ports, the governors of New Jersey and Pennsylvania

As high as gas prices have risen, there is evidence that they are headed even higher. A survey of wh

AETNA REPORTS DROP IN QUARTERLY RESULTSHARTFORD, Conn. - Aetna Life & Casualty Co. reported

Hard-pressed Yugoslavia is facing up to one of its biggest post-World War II challenges with a serie

A bold effort to start a U.S. company aimed at denting Japan's manufacturing dominance in computer m

Jackson (Jack) A. Baker, center, president of Sea-Land Service Inc., last Saturday received the Robe

25 COUNTRIES SIGN NITROGEN OXIDE PACTSOFIA, Bulgaria - Twenty-five countries, including the

Saudi Arabia has offered steep new volume-linked crude oil price discounts to Exxon Corp. on conditi

NORTH AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS see no need for Edifact, the electronic data interchange standard endor

One of the surest ways to attract attention with a mail-order catalog selling personal computer prod

The Federal Maritime Commission has revoked the licenses of two ocean freight forwarders for failing

The Baltic Exchange in London this week is altering the composition of the Baltic Freight Index, a w

1390 (Nov. 2, 1988) Previous day - 1378 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in