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Indonesians Continue Rush to Buy DollarsJAKARTA, Indonesia - The Indonesian rush to buy U.S.

Japan's exports of cars, trucks and buses fell 15.1 percent in November from a year earlier to 516,9

Harry Kindya, head bartender at the Downtown Athletic Club, has a most unusual way of judging the he

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

Ford Motor Co.'s top officials predicted 1987 U.S. motor vehicle sales of 15 million units, down sli

Friday, Dec. 26, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

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

National Starch and Chemical Corp. announced the acquisition of Bassi Marchini & C. SpA, an industri

A company seeking to burn toxic waste off the New Jersey coast has sued federal officials, alleging

Trinova Unit CompletesIPC PurchaseMAUMEE, Ohio - Sterling Engineered Products Inc.,

Market for Gum Rosins FirmsThe market for U.S. gum rosins is reported to be firming.

Ciba-Geigy Corp. began a major construction-expansion project at its Newport, Del., quinacridone pig

Steelmakers in Brazil could outdo Japanese mills in staking out further reductions in the price of c

Workmen have scrubbed the great granite buildings along Shanghai's famed waterfront Bund, and the ci

Samples of coffee mugs, umbrellas and wristwatches fill his office, but what Herbert A. Gold really

The undisputed dean of the maritime bartenders and a legend in the industry was a man named Spiros L

The leadership of Yasuhiro Nakasone is certain to be severely tested by stormy legislative sessions

Troubled dairy operator Knudsen Corp. on Friday said it agreed to sell its Texas and Louisiana opera

Indonesia Sees Increase In Fish Export EarningsJAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia earned $197.8

If members of the grain marketing industry - including two separate branches of the federal governme

Alberta Expected to Sell Three Grain TerminalsVANCOUVER, British Columbia - Three inland gra

The nation's cotton harvest continues to drag in some areas because of poor weather conditions, acco

The Reagan administration intends to propose ways to cut farm program costs in its fiscal 1988 budge

An association of Northern California ports will pay $152,000 for a conceptual design for computers

ISS International Buys Assets of Macke FirmISS International Service System Inc. said it con

Officials proposing to cut the workweek from 48 to 40 hours say they expect to run into resistance i

PROGRESS IN INDIA: A friend of mine from graduate school has found some big changes upon returning t

The effort to decide whether to automate the Federal Maritime Commission's overburdened paper tariff

GENERAL NEWSTurbulence, the theme of the steel industry over the last decade, is still the w

The quick and skillful action of crewmembers on a New York harbor tug averted what could have been a

Canada's shipbuilding industry announced its support for a proposed free trade agreement with the Un

Teofilo Named Trade Group'sNew ChairmanThomas N. Teofilo was elected chairman of the

Orders for U.S. machine tools plunged 26.3 percent in November to $132.7 million, reversing a strong

There's one in every port. Every port of any size seems to have some place where maritime ty

The stock market is winding down a year that has seen a gain of roughly 25 percent in the Dow Jones

Tomoko Nagamine carefully punched the numbers into her calculator, totaled them and, as she usually

Fewer cars and trucks rolled off U.S. assembly lines in 1986 as automakers - especially General Moto

Turbulence, the theme of the steel industry over the last decade, is still the watchword as producer

The Australian government has set up a series of committees to improve efficiency on the waterfront.

GENERAL NEWSTurbulence, the theme of the steel industry over the last decade, is still the w