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Most Metropolitan Transportation Authority agencies are getting increased productivity from their em

Citing inadequate state-allowed rate hikes over the past several years, auto insurers in Massachuset

Southern Pacific Train Derails in CaliforniaREDDING, Calif. - Two Southern Pacific train cre

Charlotte Hughes got out of bed at 3:30 Thursday morning. She's not a night- shift cab driver. She's

No competitive problems have arisen from CSX Corp.'s 1984 acquisition of American Commercial Lines,

College tuitions this fall will rise faster than the inflation rate for the seventh-straight year, a

The European Community Commission approved a development aid package of 32 million European currency

U.S. supercomputer sales to Japan seem likely to expand as the result of an exchange of letters betw

Under a tentative agreement reached between Maine's insurance department and Liberty Mutual Insuranc

Scor Profit Rose In 2nd QuarterScor U.S. Corp. reported second quarter operating profit rose

The sharply rising cost of medical malpractice insurance threatens to restrict medical care needed b

The College of Insurance, New York, will hold a professional development program for supervisors Aug

More than three years after a controversial New Jersey state Supreme Court ruling said hosts could b

Economic output in Britain this year is likely to exceed that of most other industrialized countries

The Export-Import Bank and a British bank agreed to finance up to $100 million in U.S. exports to Ca

Thousands of jobs and billions of dollars are on the table as the United Auto Workers press their de

Mexico may use its growing hard currency holdings to repay some of its US$102 billion foreign debt a

In the On The Move" column of Aug. 7, in the Electronics category, Paul G. Stern, former president a

The Argentine austral is severely under siege, as inflation surges steadily upward. The new

AIR CARGO Use of air freight to reduce inventory allowed one company to eliminate warehouses

Americans were more confident about the economy last month than at any other time since June 1984, a

The government's latest reading of the job situation was chock full of good news. The much-w

Friday was the last day of outgoing Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker's eight-year tenure at the

The Federal Reserve Board's decision to allow Security Pacific Corp. to operate an off-exchange elec

David S. Ruder, the new director of the Securities & Exchange Commission, says he plans to be the ag

Philippines Orders Trading HolidaysThe Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission suspend

AEROSPACE DENVER - Diana H. Josephson was appointed director of the Washington, D.C., office

Fed Data Due Today On Consumer CreditThe Federal Reserve releases figures on consumer credit

The foreign exchange market shrugged off a series of central bank interventions and drove the dollar

A Mellon Bank vice president offered to give up his own job to help trim expenses following first-ha

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

Shippers can't be forced to pay published truck freight rates if lower charges had been negotiated w

Effective this week, The Journal of Commerce begins publishing a daily list of Export Opportunities

There's a substantial risk of ground pollution from underground tanks that many homeowners use to st

Thomas B. Crowley, who in more than 30 years as president of Crowley Maritime Corp. created a worldw

Fri., Aug. 7, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

Silver Sea-Land containers already fill the United States Lines terminal here, the bright red "S" in

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

Rapitech Systems Inc. announced the signing of three new overseas distributors as well as important

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