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N.V. Philips and Sony Corp. said they are expanding the application of optical-playback media with t

Is the Big Bang a Big Bust? More people are asking that question as worry displaces the opti

Friday, Feb. 13, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

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The country's economic crisis has hurt rural residents more than people in the city, Agriculture Sec

The world beef and veal market strengthened in 1986 and is expected to continue recovering in 1987 a

A wait and see attitude reigned on the Chicago Board of Trade floor in the days after the CBT member

Japan and china will soon begin negotiations to establish the amount of corn China will export to Ja

Air Products Lists PricesFor MethanolAir Products and Chemicals Inc. will introduce

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

Kaiser Steel Corp. said five of its coal subsidiaries filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of t

The U.S. chemical industry is poised for a new wave of product innovations that will be based on mat

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

GENERAL NEWS The U.S. economy showed signs of re-inflating as the government reported a shar

The local subsidiary of RCA Corp. is selling its color television tube production facility to a Braz

Lured by more attractive tax laws back home or spooked by price freezes and rising nationalism here,

GENERAL NEWS The U.S. economy showed signs of re-inflating as the government reported a shar

The United States is a hot spot for tourists from all over the world, thanks largely to the weak dol

Nippon Steel Corp., the world's largest steel product manufacturer, informed its 54,000-member union

The Jamaican government and Alcan have sent to arbitration a dispute over the pricing of alumina (re

Canal Panel Sets Up Apprentice ProgramThe Panama Canal Commission March 9 will establish Mar

The U.S. economy showed signs of re-inflating Friday as the government reported a sharp gain in whol

The Export-Import Bank said it will begin financing operations and maintenance contracts of U.S. fir

Consumer confidence, which held at relatively high levels throughout most of 1986, dropped sharply i

Solidarity among West Coast unions motivated James Herman, president of the International Longshorem

Reaction was restrained to the introduction in Congress of the first of what will be a raft of bills

The number of tons of imported steel moving through the state-owned terminal here is rising rapidly

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

The Justice Department's Antitrust Division doesn't support ocean carriers' ef forts to limit provis

GENERAL NEWS Retail sales plummeted a record 5.8 percent in January. Page 3AFINANCIAL

Some members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries may be cheating on their productio

S&P Rates Tokyo Debt Preliminary Triple-AStandard & Poor's Corp. assigned a preliminary trip

A partnership headed by oilman T. Boone Pickens Jr. has sold its stock in Diamond Shamrock Corp. af

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

Weeks before the release of a Reagan administration study on the national security implications of r

Pertamina, the Indonesian state oil company, signed an oil exploration and production contract with

After five years of anguish, Merrill Lynch's thundering herd is quietly shuffling away from a Hong K

Japan's Arabian Oil Expects Profitable YearArabian Oil Co., Japan's largest oil producer, is

Chevron Corp. acquired all outstanding shares of Huntington Beach Co. HBC shareholders are entitled

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