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Showered with aid for nearly 40 years, Italy's backward south remains steeped in depression and disa

The president's cabinet-level Economic Policy Council has decided not to retaliate now against four

Bankrupt Scindia Steam Navigation Co. has commissioned a study on resumption of services by its 14 v

NERCO EARNINGS FELL DURING SECOND QUARTERPORTLAND, Ore. - Nerco Inc. reported lower earnings

Drug smugglers are discovering something legitimate exporters have known for a long time: commercial

JAPAN, NETHERLANDS FACE ANTI-DUMPING DUTIESThe International Trade Commission cleared the wa

TRADE GROUP STUDIES SALES IN ARGENTINAThe trade group whose complaint led to government plan

Several senators met with state insurance commissioners from Ohio and Illinois to voice concern and

The insurance industry plans to spend a record $43 million in an effort to pass its insurance initia

AETNA LIFE & CASUALTY OPERATING INCOME FALLSHARTFORD, Conn. - Aetna Life & Casualty Friday r

The Tennessee Valley Authority said it awarded 10 spot coal contracts in late July, a sharp increas

July 29, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Commodity Exchange Inc. launched a high-grade copper futures contract on Friday in response to what

The United States and China have signed a first governmental pact to promote cooperation in the fiel

PEMEX TO HIKE EXPORTS OF OLMECA CRUDEMexico will increase exports of its new Olmeca crude oi

PEARSON SELLS UNIT TO AMERADA HESSPearson PLC, the British conglomerate which publishes the<

Creating computers that think like people may be the only way to avoid drowning in a sea of data.

Chinese workers have struck at least 21 times since 1986 in Shenzhen, a special economic zone, and m

The futures market was exceptionally quiet last week, in line with a spot market described by some t

A confrontation is looming between the currency markets and most of the world's major central banks.

Montedison SpA and Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi have agreed to form a joint venture that will result

The Environmental Protection Agency has won its first judicial settlement in the country under the p

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

ARCO CHEMICAL CO. (Newtown Square, Pa.) - The company is reorganizing corporate structure in respons

Sea-Land Service Inc. will add more than 2,300 high-cube advanced technology refrigerated containers

ASTORIA FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION (Long Island City, N.Y.) - Virginia Vega was named assi

The Hartford Insurance Group is eliminating jobs at its Simsbury, Conn., office. The site was miside

The proposed national minimum wage increase will add $48 billion to the wage bill of American busine

* Industrial Price Index: Copper 6A * Kevin Commins - Currency Forecast 7A* Stanford Erickso

Members of the Indian shipowners' Minimum Freight Agreement, or MFA, will raise freight rates on se

Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. said that retail electricity sales increased during the second quarter la

Trade Minister John Crosbie said he will amend implementing legislation for the U.S.-Canada free-tra

Australian aviation officials are investigating complaints by United Airlines that facilities at the

With Asian manufacturing and shipping moving inexorably southward, Thailand and India are facing inc

Talk isn't always cheap, Tacoma port commissioners were told, as thecommission learned that

Salvage executives in the Persian Gulf have been dubbed the vultures of war for profiting from Iraqi

The Love Boat owners are buying the Cadillac of the booming cruise ship industry. That's how travel

As Argentina looks for more money from banks and international lending agencies, some financial expe

ARIZONA WON'T REHEAR BATUS-FARMERS CASELOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Arizona Insurance Department Fr

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