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

Three major Midwestern agricultural cooperatives are hoping to consolidate early next year, with one

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The value of contracts for new construction rose 5 percent in June to an annualized rate of $258.7 b

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Textile Quotas to Watch as of 7/30/88* Fully Utilized Textile Quotas as of 7/30/88* Reflects

Standard & Poor's says pollution cleanup costs could have serious financial consequences for propert

Mon., Aug. 1, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

The state insurance commissioner says he hopes he doesn't have to impose another auto insurance surc

ASHLAND OIL INC. (Ashland, Ky.) - Robert T. McCowan, vice chairman for external affairs, retired Mon

California's avowedly free-trade governor said Monday he supports the revamped omnibus trade bill go

OIL COMPANIES RAISE WTI POSTINGS 50 CENTSShell Oil Co. said it raised its posted buying pric

China on Monday enacted a law that ends direct state controls over enterprises and gives factory man

This old U.S. Navy minesweeper and five others like it may remain in the Persian Gulf until an estim

The U.S. Navy employed a floating-dry dock-type ship to carry a damaged warship home from the Persia

West Germany outdistanced the United States as the world's biggest exporter for the second year in a

A joint House-Senate conference committee will have to work out a compromise farm spending bill foll

The U.S. Export-Import Bank said it will resume financing U.S. exports to Brazil. All financ

U.S. production of Frasch-produced and recovered sulfur for the first five months of 1988 hit an ann

Chemical plant expansions rank among the most prized trophies these days for the industrial big game

'PLASTIC MONEY' ARRIVES IN THE SOVIET UNIONMOSCOW - MasterCard International and its Europea

Expanding markets for Texas' natural gas - especially in New England and the upper Middle Atlantic -

Cargo space on Asia-bound flights is becoming harder to get at SanFrancisco International Airport, a

The Port of Pensacola will give up nearly half of its public berthing space for 16 months to provide

Dockworkers in the Dutch port of Flushing began unloading on Monday a shipload of Irish and Danish b

The British company MTE Ltd. has developed a programmable control system featuring color graphics so

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The CRB Futures Price Index had a sharp retreat in July, giving up all itsgains of the previ

U.S. plant managers who expect production to gain in this quarter outnumber those who expect decline

While airline officials are concerned about safety, overriding financial considerations often drive

August 1, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

NAVISTAR INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION CORP. (Chicago) - Roy S. Roberts was named vice president and

Trying to throw an electronic communications lasso around the pen and paper- oriented insurance indu

A mysterious virus that has killed thousands of seals in the North Sea since last May should not ala

ILL. REGULATOR SUSPENDS INSURER'S LICENSESPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Insurance Departme

At Workers Hotel No. 6 near the Ursus tractor plant on the outskirts of Warsaw, men mill in the lobb

Niagara Mohawk Power Corp., Syracuse N.Y., said it paid about $13.94 a barrel for No. 6, fuel oil, 1

AEP UNITS STUDY SALE, LEASE-BACK OF PLANTCOLUMBUS, Ohio - Indiana Michigan Power Co. and AEP

Hong Kong has declared war on the booming fake computer software industry, with tough new powers for