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W. GERMANY PREDICTED TO KEEP TRADE SURPLUSFRANKFURT, West Germany - West Germany's trade sur

CompuServe Inc. announced the interconnection of its InfoPlex electronic mail system with the IBM Pr

A tugboat fleet captain was sentenced to five years in jail for negligence in a tugboat-ferry collis

WHAT IT IS: A government and industry-funded program intended to move the most advanced coal-burning

The government will soon decide on a package of measures to make ships built in domestic yards compe

India effectively set up a special court Thursday to try the government's $3 billion compensation su

The Brazilian government is preparing to announce - probably next week - new austerity measures to b

One part of the federal government has accused another part of breaking hazardous waste laws.

HADSON CORP. (Oklahoma City) - Vinod K. Dar resigned as executive vice president of the corporation

CALIF. LAWMAKERS SEEK HIKE IN GASOLINE TAXCalifornia state senate leaders proposed a 10-cent

A cargo plane carrying a small amount of hazardous chemicals crashed and exploded shortly after take

During the next few months, the families of the 259 victims of the Flight 103 airplane explosion ove

The insurance industry is turning its attention away from banks getting into the business and focusi

Some of the players in New Jersey's auto insurance drama reacted with skepticism and surprise to Gov

ITALY GETS OK TO BLOCK JAPANESE AUTO IMPORTSBRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Community has a

The Ministry of Economic Affairs is considering establishing a fourth export processing zone in Taiw

The headline on a front-page story Thursday, Jan. 12, about Federal Reserve Gov. Edward Kelley's vie

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

Britain's port employers are stepping up their campaign against the 40-year- old Dock Labor Scheme t

A proposal by a group of U.S. and European legislators for a special U.S.-European Community trade a

Drug giant Merck & Co. is once again America's most admired corporation, according to Fortune Magazi

Edifact TDED Maintenance Group Meeting, Jan. 23-26, Geneva. Contact: Bob Hurd, ANSI X12/DISA, 1800

A new era is on the way in shipping finance, with more companies going to the stock market for funds

Rep. George Hochbrueckner, D-N.Y., is "outraged" at the absence from the Reagan administration's fis

A cargo ferry slipped out of the Falkland Islands on Thursday headed for Uruguay and Chile in a poli

The U.S. dollar edged higher in quiet trading Thursday while the market groped for firm direction.

Top-ranking policy formulators at Japan's Finance Ministry have reached the conclusion that another

FIRST WOMEN'S BANK (New York) - Stacie Weiner was named first vice president in charge of private ba

The Port of Wilmington said it has extended the hours of operation at its container receiving gate.<

The European Monetary System has gone for two years without a realignment in currency values, despit

Iran's Abadan oil refinery, the largest in the world, will reopen April 1, more than eight years aft

The Prudential Insurance Co. established a new investment unit dedicated solely to providing private

Vietnam, where oil production is brightening an otherwise grim economic picture, has made a big new

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Robert E. Vagley, president of the American Insurance Association, is trying to disprove Ralph Nader

SECURITIES ASSOCIATION SCRAPS PLAN FOR CAPTIVEThe Securities Industry Association said Thurs

The U.S. Department of Commerce released its new "Export Now" video in an effort to keep up the mome

In the Thursday, Jan. 12, edition of The Journal of Commerce, the name of the Frankfurt-based tax ad

Exports to the United States recovered sharply in November, but were still down for the year, the Ce

What's behind the rapidly expanding supply of gold in the free market? Analysts generally ag