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1277 (Sept. 7, 1988) Previous day - 1279 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange i

The U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve sold $2.9 billion in the foreign exchange markets in the three

W. GERMANY TO CANCEL $4 BILLION OF LDC DEBTBONN, West Germany - Finance Minister Gerhard Sto

Compromise has broken out between the U.S. Customs Service and the maritime and trade industries.

The Tennessee Valley Authority selected wheeler-dealers of low-priced coal in a round of contracts a

AT&T, TOUCHTONE PLAN NEW SATELLITE SERVICESANTA MONICA, Calif. - Touchtone Video Network Inc

The European Community Wednesday adopted plans to cut unemployment and maintain living standards in

Backers of a November ballot measure that would give good drivers a 20 percent insurance rate cut sh

Creditors are not happy about lending Argentina another $4 billion to help pay interest on its forei

Although Chicago Board of Trade agriculture futures traders continue to view the recent spat of grai

On the back of some impressive economic statistics, Malaysia's Prime Minister is renewing his call f

* Buying in The Netherlands 3A * E. Cardoso and R. Dornbusch - Disaster Facing Brazil 6A* To

The United Kingdom and Norway are the first nations to subscribe to the $74.8 billion increase in th

The cost of insuring ships and freight in the Persian Gulf has plunged since the start of the cease-

Despite initial skepticism, U.S. officials are pleased with an experiment in which 17 American finan

Thousands of desperate American AIDS patients are turning to an anti- cholestero l drug available on

Backers are seeking private investment for Lan Chile, Chile's national carrier. Corporacion

Millions of dollars could hinge on the outcome of several lawsuits being brought against corporation

BAT Industries PLC, the British tobacco, retailing, paper and financial services conglomerate, expec

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The Netherlands province of Limburg is poised to become Europe's commercial crossroad. Sitti

BELGIUM, NORWAY PLAN NATURAL GAS TERMINALBRUSSELS, Belgium - Belgian and Norwegian energy co

CALIF. UTILITIES SET PEAK DEMAND RECORDSElectric utilities in Southern California set peak r

W.R. Grace & Co. announced Wednesday that a subsidiary plans to purchase Katec Betz GmbH, a privatel

Tighter cost controls and fewer cargo claims helped Old Dominion Freight Line Inc. nearly triple its

The Maritime Administration has given its permission for the foreign scrapping of a 323-foot fishing

U.S. commercial banks earned $10.5 billion in the first half of 1988, a stunning turnaround reflecti

U.S. competitiveness in world markets hinges on a much more concerted government-industry effort to

A Commerce Department change in the way it reports the monthly U.S. merchandise trade balance will p

The Export-Import Bank of Taiwan is financing 80 percent of the cost of two new ship orders for Orie

The man from Burkina Faso, the small African nation formerly known as Upper Volta, held the wooden s

Hundreds of employees returned to work Tuesday at National Steel & Shipbuilding Co., 27 days after w

The New York City Department of Sanitation has awarded the team of JJH Inc. and Rogers, Golden, Halp

The huge open cast coal mine in northern China partly owned by Occidental Petroleum Corp. isn't meet

Dow Chemical Co. is increasing capacity at its Gulf Coast vinyl chloride monomer, or VCM, plants by

THIODIPROPIONATES ARE UP AT GRACELEXINGTON, Mass. W.R. Grace & Co.'s Evans Chemetics unit i

Procter & Gamble Co. announced that its Venezuelan subsidiary is forming a joint venture with the ow

OCCIDENTAL HIKES CAUSTIC SODA PRICEDALLAS Occidental Chemical Corp. increased its list pric

Leading shipowners, shippers, freight forwarders and exporters from all over Europe Wednesday launch

LEND LEASE TO MERGE WITH WHITEFORD UNITMINNEAPOLIS - Lend Lease Trucks has agreed to merge w