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Western Financial Meet TOKYO - Finance ministers and central bank governors from the United

Charges that U.S. semiconductor makers are dumping large-scale integration chips in Japan's market a

Containerization & Intermodal Institute. All-day seminar on the impact of the 1984 Shipping Act on c

Hapag-Lloyd, West Germany's biggest ship line, navigated better than expected through 1986 and will

Start-up Delayed At Hope Creek PlantLOWER ALLOWAYS CREEK, N.J. - Routine maintenance on a wa

The United States lags behind Japan, West Germany and Sweden in both economic performance and qualit

Indian sugar output in the first half of November was 125,000 metric tons, compared with 190,000 met

CooperVision Will Sell Its Ophthalmic BusinessPALO ALTO, Calif. - CooperVision said it agree

The founders of the European Monetary System, former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing of France an

Dutch Firm to Control Philips Trust After ShiftThe United States Philips Trust, which owned

The head of the American Chamber of Commerce in South Africa said 26 more U.S. companies are likely

The hottest board game in the Philippines this Christmas is a cross between Monopoly and Clue that l

International Longshoremen's Association members in Baltimore who have at least 25 years of service

Japan's overall crude steel production in fiscal 1986, a term ending next March, is expected to drop

The port of Los Angeles, the nation's most profitable port for the past several years, has become th

Marshall P. Safir wants the entire U.S. Court of Appeals to reconsider a refusal by one of the court

Maritime Research Inc. announced it is accepting prepublication orders for Chartering Annual 1986, w

Iraq Reports Attack On Ship in GulfNICOSIA, Cyprus - Iraq said its warplanes Thursday attack

Heavy-duty Class 8 trucks sales remained far below 1985 levels in the first 11 months of this year

Oconee Nuclear Station Removed From ServiceWALHALLA, S.C. - Oconee Nuclear Station Unit 3 wa

Damon Biotech Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Damon Corp., announced that the U.S. Patent and T

Boise Agrees To Sell UnitTo SonocoBOISE, Idaho - Boise Cascade Corp. and Sonoco Prod

Since coal has replaced oil as Indonesia's primary source of energy, the country has been modernizin

THERE WAS A TIME, not long ago, when monetary policy was much more mysterious. Divining Fede

The British automaker Austin Rover Group Ltd. and Honda Motor Co. of Japan signed an agreement to jo

The South Louisiana Port Commission has appointed an interim replacement for Robert Egan, who was f

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

Thursday, Dec. 18, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Chemical Valley, a multibillion-dollar complex of some 20 oil refineries and petrochemical plants pr

Three-fourths of 500 Californians surveyed supported a gasoline tax hike to help reduce air pollutio

IMF BOLIVIA - $127 million over the next three years to help cope with deep recession, risin

U.S. foreign aid for most countries has been cut heavily, with many to receive less than half the am

The United States will cut its foreign trade deficit by only a few billiondollars next year,

Hong Kong, The Board Room of Asia, as it likes to be known, is once more thriving with the economic

Iraq was still holding OPEC hostage on a new crude production accord late Thursday, after rejecting

December 18, 1986 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gall

GENERAL NEWSCreating temporary agencies to solve major social and economic problems may prov

Estek, an Eastman Kodak Co. subsidiary which makes equipment for the semiconductor manufacturers, ha

New claims for state unemployment insurance benefits were made by 371,000 persons during the week en

GENERAL NEWS Creating temporary agencies to solve major social and economic problems may pro