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S. Korea Plans to Cut Japan Steel DeficitSEOUL, South Korea - South Korea plans to reduce it

Verity Opposes Fee On Export LicensesCommerce Secretary C. William Verity is trying to persu

Libya has imposed restrictions on the import of some goods from Italy, France and Britain following

Britain could become a steady billion-dollar annual market for U.S. farmers, joining such super-buye

The U.S. dollar declined broadly Tuesday despite an uptick on news that Japan had allocated more mon

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

Argentina and Spain will sign a five-year economic cooperation agreement in Madrid Feb. 1, that will

U.S. corporations are trading foreign currencies more actively than in the past and, in many cases,

Prices of index futures appear to reflect new information entering the market at least five minutes

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

Brazil May Ease Rules For Debt-Equity SwapsSAO PAULO, Brazil - Brazil's economic policy coun

Orders to U.S. factories for "big ticket" durable goods soared 6.7 percent in December, the biggest

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

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Operating Income Rises at Fireman'sNOVATO, Calif. - Fireman's Fund Corp. Tuesday reported th

A bill to offer health insurance to five million Californians who can't obtain private coverage or d

Most liability insurance premiums increased in New York more than 200 percent in 1985 and 1986 in Ne

CONTINENTAL CORP. (New York) - Salvadore J. Ricciardone Jr. was named resident vice president at thi

A Coral Gables, Fla., company has figured out a way to let consumers use equity in their life insura

Hertz Corp.'s admission that it bilked customers and insurers of millions ofdollars underlin

Corroon & Black Corp. could boost its first-quarter earnings figure by more than $5 a share if the s

London AIDS Summit Opens on Gloomy NoteThe first global AIDS summit opened Tuesday with a pr

American Telephone and Telegraph Co. notified the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities that it will

Large semiconductor companies will continue gobbling up mid-sized chip makers in coming months, and

Con-Way Eastern Express has set opening dates and staff for new terminals in Utica, N.Y., and South

The powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee sees a presidential plan to get Congress

AVIATION Transportation Secretary James Burnley stands alone as the only Cabinet member able

Transportation Secretary James Burnley said Congress produced a workable compromise on the federal t

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United Auto Workers officials voiced doubts that a strike against General Motors Corp. truck plants

The four-nation European Airbus Industrie consortium is reorganizing in an effort to reduce its cost

1394.0 (Jan. 25) Previous day - 1400.0 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

Lack of a quorum prevented shareholders from voting Monday on a financial restructuring package prop

Labor negotiations were to get under way here in an effort to avert a repeat of a wildcat strike tha

The Maritime Administration has disclosed that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization wants to locat

The port of Beaumont, which showed a 16 percent increase in bagged goods in 1987, is hoping a new tr

The secondary market in developing country debt has become more active, now that banks have details

A law is being drafted to give cooperative ventures an edge over other types of foreign investment i

Tax Bill Retaliates Against JapaneseWASHINGTON - Legislation will be presented today in the