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Not long ago, the waterfront neighborhood here had a reputation more foul than the sulfur clouds tha

The port of New Orleans and the city, both short of cash for much-needed development, agreed to a la

Lloyd's of London reported record profits of 278.8 million ($460 million) in 1984 (its latest compl

An Australian company intends to buy about 90 percent of St. Joe Gold Corp. and other gold propertie

MCI Communications Corp. signed a letter of intent for the purchase of RCA Global Communications Inc

The nation's largest general retailers announced their August sales results Thursday, andthe numbers

WHAT'S A CENTRAL BANK TO DO with the dollar once again tested in currency markets, bondprices fallin

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U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., on Thursday said that Western nations must take the initiative in ea

The Jamaican economy, lifted by expansion in key sectors, is growing faster than expected. T

ConAgra Inc. said it has reached a tentative agreement to settle a National Labor Relations Board ca

The new rightist Social Democrat government, the first assured of a full four-year term since Portug

President Reagan Thursday named a 13-member commission, headed by University of Illinois political e

General Electric Co. has agreed to spend $20 million to clean up contaminated groundwater near its p

Important changes have taken place in the workplaces of many East European countries since the begin

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An insurer of corporate bonds has decided to state explicitly that its policies will cover cases of

Nestle Foods Corp. announced Thursday a recall of 600,000 bottles of cocktail sauce because of a def

Robert W. MacDonald says his new insurance company offers long-suffering agents a chance to become "

Mass. Auto Rate Controversy ContinuesMass. Atty. Gen. James Shannon has recommended a 4.4 pe

Wildfires racing toward rural communities Thursday forced thousands to flee as National Guardsmen an

Carnation Co. said it was voluntarily recalling all flavors and sizes of its Bon Bons ice cream nugg

Brother International Corp. named Michael J. Kimball as resident representative in Nagoya, Japan, t

A federal appeals court has decided that a stockholder can sue seven high- ranking Bank of America o

Attorney Melvin Belli, representing some 20 families of victims of a plane crash, says he would pref

Continental Pilots Seek Union BackingWASHINGTON - Continental Airlines pilots are seeking un

Ask a Swede what he thinks about Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson and he'll probably tell you about Ol

AIR CARGO Australian transportation giant TNT launched a new intra-European door-to- door op

John B. Connally faced his creditors Thursday after telling a bankruptcy court he has $93.3 million

French chemical giant Rhone Poulenc received the green light from the Brazilian government for a $50

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

The Scandinavia Fund recently received approval from U.S. and Swedish regulatory agencies to invest

Tateho Chemical Co., which lost at least 20 billion yen ($142.2 million) in Japanese government bond

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

The Conference Board's Help-Wanted Advertising Index rose to a high for the year in July, signaling

Fed Approves Plan By Japanese BanksWASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve Board approved requests

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

Steel production in northwest Indiana is booming as steelmakers welcome the newfound demand.

Foreign exchange futures trading could expand substantially if the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's pla

Brazil's central bank announced proposed guidelines for converting $1 billion a year of foreign debt