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After two years of excessive growth, China is launching an austerity program to slash profligate spe

Japan Voices Regret Over US Trade BillHajime Tamura, minister of international trade and ind

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

Monday Hearing Set In Brazil Bank StrikeSAO PAULO, Brazil - A hearing before Brazil's Labor

After two years of excessive growth, China is launching an austerity program to slash profligate spe

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

A nuclear insurance industry group is advocating a $40 million increase in the first tier of liabili

Thursday, March 26, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Estimated world wheat production for the 1986-87 (July-June) crop year has been re vised upwards by

Lower government price supports for major farm commodities may lower farm prices and help level off

Securities firms are about to join a line of other industries that have broken ranks with the tradit

Investors went crazy over the port of Houston. The Harris County government entity completed

Fla. FCOJ Processor Announces Price HikeLykes-Pasco Packing Co., Dade City, Fla., raised its

Automakers Salute Air Bag ExtensionCarmakers have been granted an extra four years, until 19

The Reagan administration has directed the Commodity Futures TradingCommission to propose a

Officials of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission reaffirmed their opposition to a merger with t

The sale of United States Lines' remaining operations apparently means that what was once the best-k

Increased export demand probably will boost unwrought aluminum output by Australia's six smelters to

The state of California, heartened by success at getting some barriers to California agricultural ex

Longshoremen say they believe they will be able to prevent cargo from being unloaded from three Haw

March 26, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Salvaging of Ferry Ahead of ScheduleZEEBRUGGE, Belgium - Preparations to right a capsized Br

Hadson Corp., an Oklahoma oil and gas company, is expected to assume management of the financially a

The maritime industry blew it" by supporting the Shipping Act of 1984, a leading transportation exec

U.K. North Sea oil production "remains on a plateau" and is unlikely to rise in the future, Prime Mi

The road to lower rates for bagged cargo at the port of New Orleans was smoothed by labor's agreemen

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines is the third Japanese shipping line within the month toannounce it will

A Cherokee-Creek Indian who was penniless and lived in a car while oil and gas was being pumped from

Imports keep pouring into one of Japan's most open markets - the Japanese language. Foreign-

BP North America Inc., a unit of British Petroleum Co., Thursday put up a $7.4 billion, $70 a share

Nigeria Offers to Lend Crude to EcuadorQUITO, Ecuador - Nigeria has offered to lend Ecuador

Women's Traffic Club of New York. Third annual Industry Night. March 27 at the Whitehall Club, New Y

U.S. ports, with their great stake in foreign trade, should realize it's late in the trade bill batt

About 1,500 coal miners Thursday demonstrated in Brussels against the planned shutdown of three of

Wisconsin members of Congress are trying to head off a contract under which an Italian-based company

Efo, the Swedish coal buyer for 11 municipal utilities, recently bought over a million metric tons o

The Turkish government, reversing a 10-year-old policy designed to avoid confrontation with neighbo

After more than two years of declining revenues and the departure of several ocean carriers, the tra

Great Lakes ports say President Reagan's meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney next mo

Trapped in a submerged crane in the Duwamish Waterway for the better part of an hour Wednesday, a ma