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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

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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

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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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Oil prices drifted in no particular direction on the London market last week as traders awaited the

An International Energy Agency report with new estimates of European and Japanese coal production su

Mergers and acquisitions in the computer software and services industry heated up to record levels i

Trade again is on the rise in Japan and Taiwan. Japan's imports surged in June, helping to t

Despite the drought, U.S. food exporters this year can remain reliable sources for foreign nations t

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index was at its 1980 base level of 100 on Friday, down sli

ROHM & HAAS HIKES MBS PRICESRohm & Haas Co. announced a 10-cent-a-pound increase for its lin

HOECHST CELANESE CORP. POSTS STRONG EARNINGSSOMERVILLE, N.J. - Hoechst Celanese Corp. report

ALBY-OLIN EXPANDING SODIUM CHLORATE OUTPUTSTAMFORD, Conn. - Alby-Olin Chlorates Co. expects

Jane Fonda, Janet Brody and other health gurus say Americans should kick the caffeine habit.

Analysts and competitors say they are still trying to figure out how to read the Itel-Henley-Americ

The major parties in the increasingly bitter dispute over the sale of the Southern Pacific Transport

Tug and barge companies' drought-related losses are greater than previously estimated, according to

ABF Freight System Inc. is asking the Teamsters union for a 15 percent employee wage cut as part of

Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita formally presented his tax reform plan to parliament Friday, declar

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

DAIWA SECURITIES AMERICA (New York) - John W. Stillwaggon was named a senior vice president - futur

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