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AMERICAN PRESIDENT RECEIVES NEW BOXSHIPSOAKLAND, Calif. - American President Companies has t

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1191 (Aug. 4, 1988) Previous day - 1192 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

Recent events in the West Coast-Europe trade have left ship line executives wondering what the futur

Norfolk Southern Corp. stock has been upgraded by Salomon Brothers' Stock Research Dept. Michael H.

BN GETS IRS NOD FOR TAX-FREE SPINOFFSEATTLE - The Internal Revenue Service has ruled that Bu

The decision by Sears, Roebuck and Co. to sell appliances made by other companies will mean more buc

The Port of San Francisco remains confident about improving its rail connection, a port official sai

Kirk Dornbush, chairman and chief executive officer of Southeastern Bonded Warehouses Inc. in Atlant

EQUATING BLACK GOLD with the yellow stuff is taking on a new meaning as the on again, off again merg

The Interstate Commerce Commission is expected to approve only a 10-day extension of the Delaware Ot

Massachusetts Central Railroad is hoping to induce ocean carriers to hop on its weekly Boston-Chicag

For the week ended July 23 total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 11

Maersk Line has started a new dedicated rail service from the Port of Oakland to the U.S. Gulf for i

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DROUGHTS COULD CAUSE HUGE GRAIN STOCK LOSSThe world grain crop this year could come in 76 mi

An Australian beef producer has formed a joint venture with a Japanese mixed- feed manufacturer unde

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

Swapping Latin American loans for equity investments isn't likely to help a bank increase the value

Dollar Moves Higher Ahead of Job ReportThe U.S. dollar rose Thursday while participants awai

Eight years of war have turned Iraq into one of the Third World's most heavily indebted nations, but

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

EMPIRE OF AMERICA FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK (Buffalo, N.Y.) - Daniel E. Staub was named a first senior vi

UK TO ISSUE T-BILLS DENOMINATED IN ECUSBRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Community Commission

Thu., Aug. 4, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

Top Chinese bankers have called for higher interest rates to stop flagrant waste of capital and a dr

Corporate risk managers are urging Congress not to repeal insurance antitrust exemptions saying that

A price freeze on consumer goods and a currency devalued 11.4 percent against the dollar went into e

MUNICH RE POSTS DROP IN '87 PREMIUM INCOMEMUNICH, West Germany - Munich Re, the world's larg

Have you noticed lately that just about every hotel, from the mega-resorts to those charming little

Philippine President Corazon Aquino will make a two-day state visit to Brunei on Aug. 23-24, foreign

The trade bill now forwarded to President Reagan represents the most comprehensive change in U.S. tr

Yanase and Co., a Japanese dealer of West German-made Volkswagen automobiles, said it will recall 41

The trade bill President Reagan is about to sign into law virtually assures a more aggressive U.S. t

Mail-order retailer Spiegel Inc. plans to import fewer sweaters and sweat shirts from South Korea wh

The productivity of U.S. non-farm businesses fell at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.7 percen

Consumer spending resumed its sluggish pace in July following a blip upward the previous month, the

Brazilian President Jose Sarney's proposal to emulate Asia's booming new economies by establishing e

The Senate voted 90-3 Thursday to confirm John P. LaWare, a Boston banker and self-styled pragmatist

New claims for state unemployment insurance benefits were made by 371,000 people during the week end