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Japanese life and non-life insurance companies together will suffer $8 billion in overall exchange l

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

Japan seeks an agreement with the United States by the end of March on opening the Japanese market w

Hitachi Ltd., a major Japanese electric machinery maker, said Thursday it will use semiconductors pr

Two Agriculture Department economists say the Soviet Union's agriculture is still in trouble despite

Virgin Islands to Buy Plant in St. CroixST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands - The U.S. Virgin Islands

More than 200 inquiries were received for Shanghai's first auction of land since the communist takeo

A West Virginia congressman pressed this week for enactment of a South Africa sanctions proposal tha

March 24, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Occidental to Sell Colombia PropertiesOccidental Petroleum Corp. said it would sell 25 perce

Transportation Secretary James Burnley Thursday reiterated that his Wednesday testimony on Capitol H

Positive results from a joint marketing effort have Rhode Island port officials wondering if merging

While California farmers still struggle to send rice to Japan, the Japanese are cutting their way in

If the attorneys general who filed massive antitrust lawsuits against the insurance industry win the

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U.S. subsidiaries of Japan's giant Honda Motor Co. project their total exports will grow to $1 billi

China's National People's Congress probably will emphasize the country's need for high technology an

The U.K. chemical industry, firmly on a recovery path since 1983, is demonstrating confidence about

Polytribo Inc., a joint venture between Rohm & Haas Co. and Fujikura Kasei of Tokyo, recently comple

New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu waged an intensive lobbying campaign - directly and via the White Hou

The three ports making up the Port of Hampton Roads are expected as a group to surpass the 5 million

Agency to Consider Driver ExemptionsTransportation Secretary James Burnley said the departme

The fiscal 1989 authorization bill for maritime programs under consideration in the House would prov

The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered General Motors Corp. to recall almost 500,000 1985 c

ERNST & WHINNEY (New York) - Jeffrey L. Harfst joined the New York office of this international acco

A committee of French regulators, bankers and other financial authorities Thursday urged that Paris

Ezra F. Vogel says there are more reasons for U.S. businesses to go to Japan than pursuit of the alm

Bechtel Group Inc. said it did one-third less work and took in 3 percent fewer orders last year than

The International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots has proposed merging with the Marine Eng

A House subcommittee meeting on 1989 maritime program funding levels was reminiscent of the old film

Rhone-Poulenc Net Up 17.5 percent in 1987France's state-owned chemicals group Rhone-Poulenc

A new generation of tamper-evident packaging is being developed here as scientists seek to curb this

MONTEDISON SpA, (Milan) The chairman of Montedison SpA, Raul Gardini announced the appointment of A

After four years of tortuous litigation, Texaco Inc. has won permission to emerge from the bankruptc

The U.S. District Court here overturned a decision of the Maritime Administration's Subsidy Board pe

FIREMAN'S FUND INSURANCE COS. (Novato, Calif.) - Leland Proimos was named senior vice president of t

Prodded by several pending insurance initiatives, the California Senate insurance committee has appr

The president of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association Wednesday criticized Attorney General Jos

British Companies Shunned By ArgentinaBUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina is prohibiting alm

A renowned caviar expert and a Miami roe dealer are accused of importing $1 million worth of Iranian