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Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

Overseas Shipping Co., a marine terminal operator in the Port of Los Angeles, told the Federal Marit

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

The U.S. dollar was little changed against the yen and the deutsche mark Wednesday, while the pound

Commercial bankers gathered for a conference here Wednesday expressed concern that the United States

One year after the biggest stock market collapse in history, economists say the industry shakeout he

Prosecutors on Wednesday searched the headquarters of two companies linked to an insider trading sca

The specter of political instability on the southern border of the United States drove Washington to

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

JAPANESE BANK THREAT: NO NEW LDC LENDINGTOKYO - Bank of Tokyo Chairman Yusuke Kashiwagi said

Wed., Oct. 19, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

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The general manager of the Joint Underwriting Association was suspended without pay for nine days af

One year after Black Monday, the market for stockbrokers malpractice insurance has eased, with at le

In an Oct. 11 Q & A article on the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter designation and its impor

Continental Corp. announced Wednesday that it has executed agreements to sell two life insurance sub

The London insurance market expects to pay a substantial proportion of the insurance values on this

The new capital standards agreed on by bank regulators from 10 major industrial nations will do litt

NATIONALE-NEDERLANDEN BUYS MONY CANADANationale-Nederlanden NV, the largest insurer in the N

New Jersey Insurance Commissioner Kenneth Merin approved a rate increase that will cost some drivers

Donations to charity decrease as incomes increase, according to a Gallup poll that says low- and mod

A major California insurance company has added more noise to the state's automobile insurance battle

Passage of a final tax bill this year, with provisions affecting virtually every transport industry

Top manufacturing executives see the overall economy and the export sector slowing from their recent

Private credit-market analysts who track the Federal Reserve's daily operations are wondering where

Housing construction rebounded in September as a sharp rise in apartment construction offset a drop

A. Schulman Inc. and Mitsubishi Kasei Vinyl of Tokyo, Japan, signed an agreement to form Sunprene Co

The latest petrochemical producer to announce ethylene expansion plans, Westlake Polymers Corp., sai

The Alberta government has announced a new ethane policy that effectively gives the green light to o

NATIONAL STARCH INCREASES PRICESBRIDGEWATER, N.J. - National Starch & Chemical Corp.'s Adhes

Terra International Inc., the agribusiness subsidiary of Inspiration Resources Corp., purchased W.R.

Ronald E. Brandt was appointed group vice president of the specialty chemicals division. Lon

DOW CHEMICAL NET UP SHARPLY IN QUARTERMIDLAND, Mich. - Dow Chemical Co. said Wednesday its t

BAYER TO ACQUIRE COOPER TECHNICONWest German pharmaceutical group Bayer AG said it would buy

Poly-Tech Inc. announced that it will begin to market a biodegradable garbage bag, composed of polye

Ashland Oil Inc.'s Ashland Chemical Co. will sell its carbon black business to Degussa AG for approx

Ashland Coal reported net income for the fourth quarter ended Sept. 30 of $7.3 million, or 48 cents

Oct. 19, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

The major oil companies, having watched their fortunes rise and fall in the 15 years since the Arab

FUTURES RISE SHARPLY ON OPEC OPTIMISMOil futures soared in New York and London after United