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Medical malpractice insurance companies should be required to hire hospital monitors to police the d

U.K. base lending rates probably will be cut by 0.5 percentage point to 8.0 percent if sterling rall

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

The United States is going deeper and deeper into debt to the rest of the world despite recent progr

U.S. companies soon will have access to a new computer database offering information about millions

The Jamaican government and U.S. and Asian investors in the Kingston Free Zone are arguing over work

The Port of New York and New Jersey will turn its attention to exports in 1988 after earning a reput

U.S. and Brazilian sources are offering conflicting accounts of the temporary arrangements they've m

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Cashman Marine Works employees are a puzzled why a 1908 former Baltic sailing trader, raised from th

A U.S. Postal Service official says shipping all government mail on U.S. vessels could result in hig

The head of Crowley Maritime Corp.'s Alaskan sea-lift operations was awarded the Thomas Crowley trop

Ocean Transport & Trading PLC, the shipping and distribution group, announced a 29 percent rise in i

ALEXANDER & ALEXANDER INC. (New York) - Michael K. White was named chairman and chief executive at t

The Illinois Insurance Exchange reported gross premiums of $13.7 million in February, down nearly 30

Federal Reserve Board Governor Wayne Angell said Tuesday that he is uphappy that the nation's money

Taiwan Firm to Get Austrian TechnologyWEST CALDWELL, N.J. - Evergreen Superior Alloys Corp.

Japan will attempt to widen foreign access to its agricultural market while also securing basic dome

Japanese automakers have fallen short of their government's 2.3 million quota on car exports to the

The National Association of Realtors said today its housing affordability index fell slightly to 113

New claims for state unemployment insurance benefits were made by 308,000 people during the week end

The cost of flying cargo to Africa and the Middle East is going up. Rate increases to these

While legions of Wall Streeters have headed for the unemployment lines since October's market crash,

U.S. Food & Drug Administration Commissioner Frank E. Young is quietly warning biotechnology executi

Port, ocean carrier, stevedore and container interests asked the government to include international

Japan Air Lines President Susumu Yamaji sent a letter to Boeing Chairman Frank A. Shrontz last month

1617.0 (March 31, 1988) Previous day - 1621.5 The Baltic International Freight Futures Excha

A new freight route connecting the Japanese Port of Yokohama with Nakhodka in the Soviet Far East an

A river port close to Vancouver is busy feeding growing volumes of container traffic to Puget Sound

KCSI Settlement Ends Proxy FightKANSAS CITY, Mo. - Kansas City Southern Industries Inc. said

It's been slipped into everything from frying pans to space suits to the nation's political vernacul

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The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

Wall Street is recruiting ex-seafarers to referee stock market fights. The former captains,

Venezuelan Delegation Seeks Funds in JapanCARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Jaime Lu

GIVE THE LANDLUBBERS A BREAK - but do it carefully. The U.S. Customs Service is concentratin

Cash-rich companies have replaced corporate raiders of the bust-'em-up style on the merger trail, la

The market for plastics stabilizers for heat and light-resistant properties is firming, according to

After four years wallowing in red ink, Neptune Orient Lines has finally achieved a turnaround, with

A leader of the 5,500-member shipbuilders union at Bath Iron Works said the workers should not have