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

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

Companies offering electronic data interchange network services have yet to see returns on their inv

Retail sales of heavy trucks continued their free fall in January despite widespread predictions of

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Troubled Caterpillar Inc. has turned to cost-cutting and long-term efficiency goals, officials of th

Australian Wheat Board Says It Won't Cut PricesSYDNEY, Australia - The Australian Wheat Boar

American Electric Power Service Corp. purchased 225,000 tons of steam coal for an Ohio River power s

Officials at the Seabrook, N.H., nuclear power plant may have been late in notifying public safety o

Prospects for increased sales of rigid plastic containers remain promising, even though growth for t

Fears of resumed sales by the world's largest producer, Cote d'Ivoire, after several inactive months

In a talk to analysts last fall, Wells Fargo & Co. Chairman Carl Reichardt shrugged off the rave rev

A spokesman for developers of a cogeneration plant to serve Newport, R.I., says a Rhode Island Super

The Federal Communications Commission is trying to quell controversy over scrambled satellite televi

Richard E. Lyng, U.S. secretary of agriculture, most likely will visit Japan late in April to press

S. Korea's Posco Selects Steel Plant SuppliersSEOUL, South Korea - The Pohang Iron and Steel

A campaign by the Federal Aviation Administration to rid the skies of airspace intruders has resulte

Developed countries already are violating agreements to liberalize trade reached at a ministerial m

The Bank of England has added its voice to calls for a more liberal international trade regime in su

S. Korea's Posco Selects Steel Plant SuppliersSEOUL, South Korea - The Pohang Iron and Steel

Richard E. Lyng, U.S. secretary of agriculture, most likely will visit Japan late in April to press

Preliminary talks leading to creation of a possible joint venture are being held between Airborne Fr

Liability Law Vote NEW ORLEANS - The American Bar Association is due to vote here today on w

In the ever-changing world of the credit markets, emphasis will shift this week to Federal Reserve p

Some maritime union officials are upset over formation of a new, multicraft shipboard union by the S

Starcom International Inc., an electronic rate and tariff publishing service, said it will discontin

Three of the five syndicates the New York Insurance Exchange declared insolvent last November are sc

The fall in the value of the dollar is making some Japanese auto manufacturers think about importing

Consolidated Edison Co. said its Indian Point 2 nuclear power plant, out of action since Tuesday nig

The Inter-American Development Bank appears about to win a record $27 billion increase in lending re

The Dow Chemical Co. announced the sale of Mer-National, its South African pharmaceutical business,

Railroad Ties to Fuel Pa. Cogeneration PlantConstruction will begin next month on a cogenera

Celanese Corp. reported fourth quarter net income of $57 million, or $5.04 a share, up from $50 mill

Top Stories China's Jiangsu province traders hope to lure U.S. importers and exporters away from Jap

Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., which imports 90,000 cars and light trucks through Baltimore annually, ha

John P. LaRue has become the third president in 16 months at the Philadelphia Port Corp., a private,

An archaeologist says divers have salvaged hundreds of artifacts from the wreck of HMS Sirius, the f

Grupo Duratex ReorganizesManagementSAO PAULO, Brazil - Grupo Duratex SA, Brazil's la

Hong Kong is exporting more and more to the United States, but its markets else where are growing ra

Norsk Hydro claims to have proven what Norwegian oil industry experts say could be a major oil field