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A West German court has ordered the former head of foreign exchange of carmaker Volkswagen AG to pay

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

Brooklyn native William Albert Sawyer eats his own cooking, weighs 350 pounds and once pawned his mo

BEAR, STEARNS & CO. (New York) - Peter F. Lallos was named associate director and head of the tax-ex

Wed., Aug. 10, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

BELGIAN NATIONAL BANK RAISING DISCOUNT RATEBRUSSELS, Belgium - The Belgian National Bank Wed

The Bundesbank may raise the security repurchase rate in an extra tender next week to reduce inflati

The Japanese government and people will reject any and all future requestsfrom Washington fo

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

KIDDER, PEABODY & CO. (New York) - Roy D. Henriksson was named senior vice president and head of fut

PERUVIAN COPPER STRIKE INTERRUPTS DELIVERIESSouthern Peru Copper Corp. said it had declared

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Australia says it will persist with its complaint to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade abou

Should Americans be advising the Japanese on how to take over U.S. companies? The issue rais

Seven major European providers of electronic data interchange services announced plans Wednesday to

Three times a year, corporate Japan sheds its neatly tailored business suits, dons caps, spikes and

MOTOR SETTING CITED IN PARIS TRAIN CRASHThe top official of France's state-run railroad said

MCI Communications Corp. chairman and founder William G. McGowan's illness came at a crucial time fo

What's the best way to manage electronic data interchange? Stop using it altogether - for a

An 18-year-old high school dropout was charged Monday with the theft of more than $1 million in soph

Shippers in the West Coast-Europe trade say they are still facing many unanswered questions about ra

PERSONAL COMPUTER SALES TO JUMP BY 14 PERCENT IN '88Sales of personal computers will jump by

Most companies stumble onto EDI. They adopt the technology piecemeal, in response to custome

CF AirFreight, an operating unit of Consolidated Freightways Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., has invested m

A Pacific Northwest congressman wants the U.S. Customs Service to give the Port of Tacoma the same n

The Port of Oakland announced a new plan Tuesday to dispose of hundreds of thousands of cubic yards

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SHIPPERS HAIL TRUCE IN PERSIAN GULF WARShippers were cautiously optimistic on Tuesday after

For a nation with its illustrious seagoing past, the United States has let its merchant marine nearl

1190 (Aug. 9, 1988) Previous day - 1192 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

James R. Wolfe, chairman and chief executive officer of CNW Corp., died Monday afternoon of cancer.

HE SPOKE HIS MIND, which makes a reporter's job easier. The death in Chicago this week of Ji

Lloyd's of London reported that insurance losses paid out on ship hulls damaged in the Persian Gulf

Blue Cross of California, the state's largest health insurer, has increased premiums by 25 percent a

OPERATING INCOME SLIPS AT CNA FINANCIALCNA Financial Corp. reported that net operating incom

Australia's marine insurers will be using the International Union of Marine Insurance Conference nex

THREE STATES FILL INSURANCE POSTSLewis R. Crist, Missouri's insurance director, will resign

A government mission charged with extracting new loans from foreign commercial banks begins its diff

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

Banks wanting to unload bad loans and worries about Brazil's response to its inflation woes should k