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An 80-year-old railcar factory being closed by Paccar Inc. could be replaced with a highly automated

Baytree Investors Inc. expects to make a formal tender offer this week to acquire all outstanding st

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

West Germany Looks For Economic GrowthFRANKFURT, West Germany - Strong private demand will c

Venezuela, Alcoa Plan Big Aluminum PlantCARACAS, Venezuela - The Venezuelan Guyana Corp., kn

Nowhere does the name of LTV Corp. appear. But as pension plan analysts study the new pensio

What does it mean when a guy who always buys one bag of dog food every Thursday suddenly buys 10 bag

A "nagging cloud" is blowing up over the world's shipping industry, with the United States the bigge

Hoechst Celanese Hikes PVC PricesNEW CASTLE, Del. Hoechst Celanese PVC film division is inc

United Technologies Will Sell Two UnitsUnited Technologies announced the tentative sale of t

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The fear of malpractice lawsuits is not limited to the medical and legal professions. A rece

Munich Re AG, the world's largest reinsurance company, said Tuesday that it has acquired 99.8 percen

Tokyo Insurers Win Right to Trade FuturesTOKYO - Japan's Finance Ministry will allow life an

Despite gloomy prospects for the U.S oil industry in 1988, Phillips Petroleum Co. said that it will

Health insurers have to start talking with health-care providers if they want to contain medical cos

The federal government Tuesday officially made seven states finalists in the race for the multibilli

The Henley Group Inc. Tuesday launched a proxy fight to gain seats on the board of directors of the

F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co. has sweetened its hostile buy-out offer for Sterling Drug Inc. hours afte

Federal marshalls arrested a container barge of McAllister Brothers Inc. here Friday for non-payment

Owen Bieber, United Auto Workers union president, is lending his presence to efforts to organize a N

U.S. tax laws put U.S. multinational corporations at a disadvantage in doing business overseas, acco

International Business Machines Corp. posted a 50 percent jump in its fourth quarter profit Tuesday

Steel production rose to 1.859 million tons in the week ended Jan. 16, an increase of 3.8 percent fr

AIR CARGO Pan Am offers interline cargo service on its Eastbound flights from Honolulu. 5BA

Most LIPA Spending Goes for Legal FeesALBANY, N.Y. - The Long Island Power Authority, set up

OPEC is walking a shaky "pricing tightrope," Petroleum Intelligence Weekly reported Tuesday.

A funeral Mass was held Monday for Bernard S. "Ted" Costello, a prominent ship's agency executive, w

More than a score of interested Philippine parties, some thought to have foreign backers, attended a

Olin Boosts Prices Of Sodium ChloriteSTAMFORD, Conn. Olin Corp. is increasing its off-list

Senator Line and the port of Wilmington make a great match - one that should benefit the carrier, th

Traffic moving through the port of Duluth in 1987 increased 7.3 million tons over the prior year.

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

Traders of developing country debt are waiting for clarification of the accounting procedures to be

A high-ranking Vietnamese economist has announced that his country's new foreign investment code is

A COMPLETE GENTLEMAN is how Transportation Department officials described Secretary James Burnley's

The port of San Francisco has named Vello Kiisk as its acting executive director. Mr. Kiisk,

Olympia & York Developments Ltd. is fast becoming the major figure in the shadows as the drama invol

NY College Alumni Meet Today in San FranciscoThe West Coast chapter of the New York Maritime

New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo called the U.S.-Canada free trade pact "a very good agreement for the C