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

My name's Tommy, not Swami. That was the snappy and accurate retort from one Teamsters offic

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Adoption of the International Cocoa Organization's stock withholding program stalled after the Ivory

THE MOMENT WENT ON and on until the silence was almost startling, and the lack of an answer undersco

Soviet-made wheeled excavators powered by General Motors Corp. engines will roll into the United Sta

An Argentine delegation led by Finance Minister Mario Brodersohn met with Treasury Secretary James A

Michael J. Kimball, resident representative in Nagoya for Japan's Brother International Corp., repor

EC Plan Would Give Banks Border FreedomBRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Community Wednesday

GM Reverses Denials On Closure of PlantMcCOOK, Ill. - Despite earlier denials that it planne

Bilspedition AB, the biggest trucking and forwarding organization in Scandinavia, has taken over the

Oil that leaked from a factory into a tributary of the Moscow River has tainted the city's water sup

Plans by Distrigas of Massachusetts Corp. to bring Algerian liquefied natural gas into Boston appear

Montana Power Co. and Nalco Chemical Co. are researching ways the utility can significantly cut its

Southern Co. Services Inc. said it bought spot coal for three Florida power plants, and a Louisville

Aetna Life & Casualty Co. is a party to the sweetened offer that American Home Products Corp. here h

The new federal tax law will cost insurers $6 billion by 1990, said Daniel J. McNamara, outgoing pre

Comex Chief Recommends An Election NEW YORK - Alan J. Brody, chairman and president of the C

Norway has banned imports of agricultural products from West Germany following reports that hoof-and

The end of commercial use of the Morse Code in the 1990s was predicted by the manager of Britain's w

Traditional Exports Petroleum, tomatoes, agricultural products, meat, coffee, cotton, sugar,

''I'm Chiquita Banana and I've come to say . . . my high shipping costs I'm looking to defray."<

The battered hulks of several abandoned clipper ships lie half-submerged in the shallows along a des

American Telephone & Telegraph Co. announced Wednesday a pioneering deal to equip China's official n

Although ship traffic on the Delaware River edged up 1 percent in 1987, large docks in Philadelphia

U.S. businessmen may reap substantial benefits from new economic reforms and other developments in C

At least 8,000 small- and medium-sized industries in northern Nuevo Leon state will be forced to clo

January 13, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallo

High demand for natural gas in 1988 will keep spot market prices well above the record lows reached

Primary inventories of key petroleum products followed normal seasonal patterns with distillate oil

Alberto Ades, a Brazilian financier and trader, Wednesday proposed a new security designed to break

Consumer prices in Switzerland rose a monthly average of 1.4 percent in 1987, the government reporte

Cutbacks in credit and the money supply in China this year appear likely to affect foreign projects,

A prominent Southern pricing bureau approved a plan to raise trucking freight rates 4 percent in Apr

On a rainy day in Lake Charles you can spot big red circles on the floors of the port's 14 warehouse

Establishment of a second shipping registry in Denmark is essential not only to the future of Danish

Campbell to Acquire Specialty Brands UnitsCAMDEN, N.J. - Campbell Soup Co. said it has agree

The death of President Chiang Ching-kuo may slow the pace of reform on Taiwan but is not expected to

The U.S. pulp and paper industry is expected to benefit from an improving trade position and continu

Railroad freight traffic ended the year with a figurative flood of carloads as the resurgent manufac