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

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

The life insurance industry and two influential members of the House Ways and Means Committee joined

U.S. business partners warned Thursday they will ask the world's major trade regulator to rule on th

Keppel Group, the Singapore maritime and property conglomerate, reports first half 1988 profits up 4

MOBIL UNIT TO EXPLORE FOR OIL OFF TRINIDADA Mobil Corp. unit has received rights to explore

The shortage of vital memory chips has become so severe it is drastically changing the way buyers an

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

COULD TRANS FREIGHT LINES be following its trans-Atlantic slot-chartering partner, Nedlloyd Lines, t

ORIENTAL CHEMICAL, ATOCHEM FORM VENTURESEOUL, South Korea - Oriental Chemical Industry Co. w

BASF FIBRES INC. (Ottawa) - Larry Marshall was named president of this Canadian division of BASF Cor

Increased U.S. chemical exports and continued growth in vegetable oil importsfrom the Far Ea

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

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

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

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

Growing demand at home, coupled with inadequacies in transportation, caused China's exports of crude

It's a long way from Hingham Harbor to Tokyo Bay, but Talbots, the women's apparel retailer and mail

PHILIPS MANAGEMENT CHANGES ANNOUNCEDEINDHOVEN, Netherlands - In a move to integrate its U.S.

What if the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the soybean loan rate and nobody noticed?

WHERE DID WE put our actuaries? That must have been a surprise to the property/casualty insu

The number of Californians without health insurance jumped 50 percent between 1979 and 1986, and wor

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

GE Plastics U.S.A., Mitsui Petrochemical Industries Ltd. and Nagase & Co. will restructure their aff

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

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

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

Congress quickly intervened in Thursday's short-lived strike against the Chicago and North Western T

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

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

* Howard Simon - Comex/Nymex Merger? 6A * Setting Rules for Electronic Communications 8A* Lo

Customs brokers and freight forwarders are about to tear their way out of their paper cocoon.

TEXACO TRADING CUTS WEST TEXAS POSTINGTexaco Trading & Transportation Inc. reduced its poste

With cargo holds aboard United Airlines planes crossing the Pacific totally full, airline chairman S

HERTZ PLEADS GUILTY TO OVERBILLING CHARGESHertz Corp., the big rental car company, pleaded g

Scientists and fishermen are reacting to shrinking lobster harvests in the past three years and tryi