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Proposed trade legislation from the Senate Finance Committee sounds like the old protectionist wolf

Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill. and chairman of the House Ways and MeansCommittee , lent his support t

A British expert told U.S. insurance companies they soon can market insurancebroadly in Euro

Reauthorization of the multibillion-dollar airport and airways improvement program will be the premi

Waite Reported Shot HAMBURG, West Germany - The West German newspaper Bild said in an unconf

IF THERE WILL BE NO BUDGET SUMMIT SOON, when will a real blueprint for fiscal 1988 emerge? N

Thirty-four years ago the saying was held to be true, and economists say it's true today. What's goo

A Long Island Lighting Co. request for a 6 percent rate increase will be challenged by a coalition

The gloomy economic cloud spawned by the decline in the oil industry has had a silver lining for the

The tug Anglian Lady has fitted a tow line to the Philippine freighter General Jacinto and is towing

Tennessee Valley Awards 11 ContractsTennessee Valley Authority awarded 11 spot coal contract

A.T. Massey Coal Co. and Island Creek Corp. became the latest two U.S. companies to strike new cokin

Two New York property owners along Lake Ontario filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing the New Yo

The Chemical Manufacturers' Association asked the Federal Maritime Commission for more time to prepa

Four shipping lines and the International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots have tentatively

The Pennsylvania Senate Banking and Insurance Committee has unanimously approved and sent to the flo

Sale of A.H Robins A Solution, Lawyers SayRICHMOND, Va. - Lawyers for women who have sued A.

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A New York federal court granted class-action status for at least 75 reinsurance companies to join i

Science Adviser Seeks Japan's Aid on ProjectDr. William R. Graham, the U.S. presidential sci

A DIET POOL is the answer Re Capital Corp. has for fatties who need an incentive to lose weight. The

Lloyd's of London has taken steps to implement the most important recommendation of a report into th

There could be a new wrinkle in the crisis surrounding the inability of commercial fishing vessels t

Commercial fishermen seldom agree on anything. They say theirs is a cut- throat industry. Bu

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

The U.S.S.R. will import 26 million metric tons of grain in 1986-87, compared with the previous esti

The U.S. dollar moved up 1.2 percent against the deutsche mark Thursday and somewhat less against ot

The Suriname Aluminum Co., a subsidiary of the Aluminum Company of America,closed its alumi

Another century marker fell by the wayside Thursday, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed abov

Injunction Bars Women From Some Tuna ShipsThe federal government was barred indefinitely fro

Science Adviser Seeks Japan's Aid on ProjectDr. William R. Graham, the U.S. presidential sci

An exemption in the nation's new water cleanup act permits Orange County to seek approval for the wo

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

The peso, worth 26 to the dollar five years ago, is edging close to an exchange rate of 1,000 to the

China may be developing as one of the U.S. farmer's best prospects for improving wheat and corn expo

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

The problem of the less-developed countries' indebtedness to U.S. commercial banks will be defused o

Saddled with bad energy and real estate loans, the nation's biggest banks - particularly those in Te

Northwest Airlines To Offer Common StockST. PAUL, Minn. - NWA Inc., parent company of Northw