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William L. Ralph has joined the Port Import-Export Reporting Service, aunit of The Journal of Commer

For five years the tobacco industry fought tooth and nail to keep internal, confidential documents f

Australia's insurance industry appears to have weathered last year's stock market crash in better sh

Japan is unlikely to agree to immediate liberalization of its beef market during talks to settle an

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Manufacturing Outlook Remains Bright in UKU.K. manufacturing prospects remain buoyant, and t

When top managers of Frost Inc. of Grand Rapids, Mich., first heard about the global challenge, they

Moody's Investor's Service lowered its rating on a $50 million senior subordinated debt issue of Tex

Fording Coal Ltd., Calgary, Alberta, has negotiated a general $2.90 a metric ton price increase with

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

March 25, 1988 Baltic International Freight Futures ExchangePrev.Close High

P&O Wins Court Fight To Nix Strike BallotThe Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., or

The American Chamber of Commerce of Peru said conditions in the U.S.-Peruvian liner trades have so i

Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. said it signed an understanding to buy 100 million cubic feet of

A congressional investigating agency said the Coast Guard, in dealing with its current budget pressu

The dollar is likely to drift lower in the next few weeks, currency traders and economists predict.

Fri., March 25, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade rejects European claims that the U.S.-Japanese agreement

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices is the ratio

Systems Designers PLC (SD), the U.K.-based computer system consultancy group, announced Friday that

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. expects to market by July sample quantities of a new high-performance pol

Pennwalt Corp. has echoed E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.'s call for a rapid phase-out of the producti

Carbide Announces NIAX Price HikesDANBURY, Conn. - Union Carbide Corp. is increasing prices

Liposome Technology Inc., a biomedical company specializing in developing liposome-based delivery sy

W. Germans to Convert Indian Chlorine PlantVADODORA, India - Gujarat Alkalies & Chemicals Lt

Japanese products are significantly cheaper to manufacture than U.S. productsbecause Japan u

Subsidiaries of Enron Corp., Houston, and Brooklyn Union Gas Co., of Brooklyn, N.Y., signed a long-t

Risk managers sharply criticize insurers' uniform push for restricting commercial liability coverage

BOSTON CO. (Boston) - Anton L. Janik, senior vice president, was named deputy group manager for the

Bear, Stearns & Co. commenced the first lira-denominated financing by the European Community, which

The World Bank expects to lend China more than $12 billion during the next four years as its relatio

U.S. apple interests say they are glad but still wary of Japanese promisesto lift quotas that keep t

Loading of export grain at Canada's Pacific ports will hit a fresh record if prairie farmers heed a

The Swiss Options and Financial Futures Exchange Ltd., Switzerland's only futures market, expects to

New Rules Govern S&P Index FuturesThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved new dail

When it comes to doing business electronically, a good bureaucracy is an essential tool. Retailers a

California's Prop 65 could restrict the movement of agricultural products and their production in ot

The European Community Commission has approved government subsidies of more than 1.7 billion French

ILLUMINATING A BRIGHT IDEA finally reached the cabins of Continental and Eastern Air Lines last week

Swissair Cargo Volume Up 45 percent in Two 2 MonthsChanges in production strategy by multina