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Some of the Democratic presidential candidates who debated here warned about bank deregulation on th

Mining Group Extends Deadline for StrikersJOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The Anglo American mi

A Japanese-based transportation company is orchestrating the movement of several thousand freight-to

The medical malpractice crisis is not just a U.S. malady. Doctors in Britain also face stiff

Canada's railway system ground to a halt early Monday as some 48,000 unionized employees went on the

Saudi Arabia hopes to maintain its liquid petroleum gas exports despite serious fire damage to its p

Recent U.S. moves to allow imports of steel rods from South Africa and Namibia while strengthening t

A howling arctic gale had destroyed part of the fleet. The rest was trapped offshore in a shifting i

United Parcel Service said it will assume direct control and responsibility for flight operations an

U.S. lawyers who were in Beijing last week to attend a legal conference took advantage of the opport

The former Gulf Oil Corp. deepwater terminal on Staten Island has been sold for the second time in a

The Transportation Department's plans to add highly restricted zones of airspace at nine airports me

The government is having a tough time divesting its holdings in Mexicana, Latin America's largest ai

The Massachusetts Port Authority wants local power to restrict Logan Airport traffic, as a Massport

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

The inquiry into the Aug. 16 crash of Northwest Airlines Flight 255 has shifted from Detroit to othe

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

The New York Stock Exchange Monday listed a European Currency Unit bond issue, the first foreign-cur

U.S. personal income rose 0.4 percent in July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $3.736 trillio

The United States will have a current account surplus and Japan a current account deficit sooner tha

Alliance Capital Plans First Spanish FundAlliance Capital Management Corp. will file a regis

The Senate Agriculture Committee's work on a Farm Credit System rescue bill might be delayed until e

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

Fri., Aug. 21, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

The crunch is on as Ritz crackers come to Thailand. The Nabisco Brands Inc. unit of RJR Nabi

West European nations may be quicker than the United States to respond to Kremlin leader Mikhail S.

Japan's government will sharply boost its spending on research in superconductivity next year, offic

Taipei Expects Growth To Reach 10.6 percent in '87TAIPEI, Taiwan - The government said it ex

A similarity between a Danish campaign poster and an advertisement for the latest James Bond film ma

Indian Mills Urge Raw Cotton ImportsIndia will need to import at least 1 million bales (one

The U.S. market for ethylene glycol is projected to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent to 2.5 percent a y

Worldwide capacity for refined butadiene is projected to reach 7.3 million tons in 1990 from a curre

UGI Corp., a diversified utility, said its Reading, Pa.-based Gas Utility Division plans to reduce r

Petrochemical Complex Target of Iraqi BombNICOSIA, Cyprus - Iraqi warplanes bombed a key Ira

Britain's strongest miners' union voted Monday in favor of taking a so-called industrial action unle

Long noted for the steady, even comparatively slow expansion course plotted for its two ports, the N

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' August production is expected to reach an estimat

The U.S. Coast Guard will allow vessel owners to use either of two vessel measurement systems, effec

Conrail has dropped unfair labor practice charges against the International Longshoremen's Associati