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Securities brokerage Security Pacific Hoare Govett announced Wednesday it was getting out of the Bri

Japanese companies captured half the world's $50.2 billion semiconductor market last year by concent

Eastern Air Lines, smaller and deeper in debt than a year ago, begins 1989 facing a release from man

Wary over the ability of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to maintain its latest pr

KUWAIT'S OIL MINISTER SEES $15-$18 OIL IN '89Kuwait's oil minister said Tuesday he expects o

PUERTO RICO MARINE MANAGEMENT INC. (Edison, N.J.) - Robert Alvarez was named director of corporate c

Foreign trade is a positive note in an otherwise troubled Yugoslav economy. Inflation has pr

A group of mid-sized trucking companies converted higher freight rates into robust earnings gains du

A sharply divided Oakland Port Commission voted 5-2 to proceed with a reorganization plan that calls

North Atlantic shipping lines have lost only a minuscule portion of their business as a result of th

An increase of five percentage points in the surcharge Pennsylvania health- care providers pay to a

Embattled Sodarcan Inc. has consolidated more than a dozen subsidiaries and sold its marine underwri

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FACTORY ORDERS ROSE 0.3 PERCENT DURING NOVEMBERNew orders to U.S. factories for manufactured

By the time Japan's gross national product for the July-September period was officially released at

Wed., Jan. 4, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

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Texaco Inc. and the Saudi Arabian Oil Co. said they had begun their previously disclosed joint ventu

The son of Hong Kong magnate Li Ka-shing moved personally on Tuesday to allay the fears of Canadian

Natural Gas Clearinghouse Inc. Wednesday released its survey of domestic natural gas spot market pri

Toyota Motor Corp. says it will go ahead with the introduction of a new line of luxury cars despite

Borden Inc. Wednesday revealed an unusual plan to deter a takeover at less than what it considered f

A Vietnamese company plans to begin a shipping service to Taiwan, an example of crumbling trade barr

Walter Abernathy, who resigned as executive director of the Port of Oakland, was smiling at the end

An agreement between the state and 28 insurance companies headquartered outside Illinois, freeing up

Biehler Sales, Hutchinson, Kan., is the lead contractor for a 60,000-ton grain import terminal to be

The U.S. Department of Commerce has approved a foreign trade zone for the Port of Indiana/Burns Inte

To many people, the chilly, wind-swept highlands of Scotland do not appear to offer an abundance of

2 US TRADE OFFICIALS TO JOIN LAW FIRMDeputy U.S. Trade Representative Alan Holmer, currently

The giant Hyundai Group of South Korea wants to take part in the development of Siberia and other jo

COAL PRICE HIKE MEETS OPPOSITION IN INDIANEW DELHI, India - The Indian government raised the

Transworld Names Pinon President HOUSTON - Jorge R. Pinon was named president and chief exec

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed banning land disposal of 72 hazardous wastes, most of t

A great deal of suspense and shifting behind the scenes accompanied the eventual naming of Michael P

MORE WEST GERMANS JOBLESS IN DECEMBERFRANKFURT, West Germany - West German unemployment rose

UNITED TELECOM, GTE COMPLETE SPRINT DEALKANSAS CITY, Mo. - United Telecommunications Inc. an

A computer hacker charged with infiltrating systems in the United States and England, was declared a

Bullish sentiment about the outlook for 1989 boosted share prices across a wide range in Tokyo and b

The Soviet Union could slash its yearly standard 4.2-million-metric-ton sugarpurchase from C

The state of Washington and the province of British Columbia on Wednesday formed an economic partner