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A congressional investigating agency is drawing up legislation to require bank holding companies wit

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

The economy is likely to grow this year by 6 percent, Financial Secretary Piers Jacobs said Tuesday,

SOUTHERN TOWNS TEND to view outsiders as just that: outsiders. But Paul deMariano, Jacksonvi

ACRYLIC MONOMERS ARE UP AT BASFPARSIPPANY, N.J. - BASF Corp.'s chemicals division announced

On a barren, sandy coast parched plants are desperate for water - yet farmers pray it will not rain.

Two women have become the first female co-pilots flying for West Germany's national airline Lufthans

The U.S. Customs Service's intensified inspections of cargo containers fromdrug-source count

Greenpeace protesters detained a sewage barge Tuesday minutes before it was to head out to New York

A world shipping group has devised a new standard form to hasten the writing of fast-growing numbers

A new association for excess line insurance brokers in New York is planning to begin operations Jan.

It appears likely there will be a public hearing on a proposal by the Connecticut state Insurance De

ARTHUR ANDERSEN & CO. (Chicago) - Roderick G.W. Chu, former New York state commissioner of taxation

Taiwan plans to cut import tariffs on several additional products, including mineral oils and coolin

The French government might provide export incentives for small- and medium- sized enterprises, acco

NY'S PSC GETS SET FOR SHOREHAM DECISIONALBANY, N.Y. - New York state's Public Service Commis

Oil exports to South Africa continued at a brisk pace last year despite a longstanding U.N. oil boyc

In a sign-of-the-times speech Tuesday, a representative of one of the nation's largest coking coal e

Abitibi-Price Inc. has acquired rights to 19.9 percent of Spicers Paper Ltd., one of Australia's lea

Sept. 13, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Because of fears of a widespread problem, the National Transportation Safety Board Tuesday urged sev

A water policy group challenged the presidential candidates to debate water resources issues, includ

Some rivals in the fight against computer viruses are spending a large portion of their time battlin

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TLC FREIGHT TO EXPAND MIDWEST REEFER SERVICEZEELAND, Mich. - TLC Freight Services will expan

A preliminary review by the Agriculture Department of this summer's barge traffic on drought-reduced

The Federal Maritime Commission will give the Port of Seattle until Sept. 21 to indicate whether it

Central Gulf Lines of New Orleans took the initiative and appealed a recent court decision that thre

WOMAN SUES DELTA OVER DALLAS CRASHA woman who survived last month's crash of a Delta Air Lin

Tue., Sept. 13, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

Four food-importing nations presented a plan Tuesday to reform world agriculture and said they were

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The Soviet Union wants to sell more machine tools to U.S. companies, but if it is to grab a larger s

The U.S. current account deficit narrowed slightly in the second quarter thanks to better export per

Harness the shipper with the fines and liability associated with overweight containers and watch the

An article on page 1A in the Sept. 12 issue of The Journal of Commerce, Shipbuilding Orderbook Shows

Nicholas Brady sailed through his confirmation hearing Tuesday, talking tough on trade as he moved t

Growth in the West German gross national product will slow to about 1.7 percent in 1989 from about 2

AIR CARGO A federal program to develop a tiltroter, an aircraft that combines features of th

Two rice industry associations will jointly file today an unfair trade practices case against Japan