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TAKESHITA ACCEPTS TAX REFORM CHANGESJapanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita bowed Tuesday t

New Jersey motorists would pay up to $351 in auto insurance surcharges next year if a fourth surchar

A new commissioner has been named at the Port of San Francisco. Meanwhile, allegations have emerged

When members of President Jose Sarney's entourage carried Japanese-made personal computers on a rece

CHRYSLER MACHINERY IS GOING TO CHINATons of Chrysler Motors Corp. engine-making equipment wa

TRIAL FUTURES MARKETS APPROVED IN CHINABEIJING - China has approved establishment of experim

The U.S. dollar rose early Tuesday but began slipping on reports the Federal Reserve intervened in t

After Shell Oil Corp.'s refinery in Norco, La., exploded May 5 causing death, injury and property da

July 26, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

AIRBORNE EXPRESS POSTS INCREASE IN EARNINGSSEATTLE - Airborne Freight Corp., which operates

Guilford Transportation Industries wants to question a U.S. Senate staffer in hopes of proving polit

Porsche, the luxury sports car maker, said Tuesday it would launch a drive to recapture its image of

MiniScribe Corp., a leading manufacturer of hard disk drives for smaller computers, plans to nearly

The government sought to cool trade tensions Tuesday by lifting a three-year- old ban on imported be

THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE CLUB (Fort Lee, N.J.) - Joseph Palmieri was named president of this non-p

The Canadian dollar has been riding a wave of foreign investor confidence in recent months, but anal

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

The U.S. Navy is running into environmental opposition, similar to that faced by the Port of Oakland

A business group has scheduled a five-day seminar here Oct. 10-14 for U.S. electronics firms interes

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The U.S. government's insurance program for U.S. business in developing nations is facing a cutoff t

IBM and AT&T head the list of the top 200 electronics companies in the United States, according to a

An ambitious project to develop a new container and bulk cargo port in southeast England that would

1199 (July 26, 1988) Previous day - 1199 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange i

A California state agency is considering tighter regulations for railroads that move hazardous mater

Steel production fell to 1.905 million tons in the week ended July 23, a decrease of 2.2 percent fro

GAS EXPLOSION HITS ILLEGAL MINE IN CHINAA gas explosion at an illegal coal mine in southwest

Southern California Edison Co. has proposed a $2 billion merger with San Diego Gas & Electric Co., i

STRIKING RAIL WORKERS ARRESTED IN S. KOREASEOUL, South Korea - South Korean police arrested

They were once the royalty of the Mississippi, their towering smokestacks billowing out balls of ste

A new European Community proposal suggests that the 12-nation bloc and the United States are basical

YEUTTER SUPPORTS TRADE LEGISLATIONU.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter said Tuesday he

The continuing full-scale battle for the right to pay $1.8 billion to buy the Southern Pacific Trans

Burlington Air Express took advantage of higher yields on international air shipments and certain co

A thing so common as a match has become a coveted item in Shanghai. For more than a month no

Tue., July 26, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

A number of factors are working against further improvement in the U.S. trade deficit this year, eco

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The effort to bring trade in services such as banking, insurance and transportation under the Genera

New York State Electric & Gas Corp., Binghamton, N.Y., thinks the future of the state's industrial e