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The big Czech banks are having difficulty gaining loans from abroad, a frequent source of financing

Levi Strauss Europe, the European subsidiary of U.S. blue jeans maker Levi Strauss & Co., said it wo

Japan and the European Union will hold minister-level talks this month, addressing economic issues r

South African iron and steel producer Iscor faces losing the United States as a market for one of it

President Clinton has nominated C. Donald Johnson Jr. to the rank of ambassador nearly seven months

Arco British and Mobil North Sea said they signed an agreement to combine their offshore operations

The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to use a Georgia case to decide whether a seawall is considered

Eastman Kodak has been the only major multinational corporation to demonstrate the flexibility neces

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China is groping for - and the United States hoping for - a ''rule of law'' in China.Under a

It's an agricultural market of mythic proportions, at least on paper: 1.2 billion people in one of t

California Gov. Pete Wilson has vetoed Assembly Bill 2157 which, according to insurers, inappropriat

Lincoln Financial Group said Tuesday it is launching a national campaign to introduce its new market

With China proposing to spend huge amounts on fixed assets over the next several years, some insuran

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The management of Philippine Airlines said Wednesday that it was confident of reviving the airline n

Congress and the Surface Transportation Board are forging a plan that would keep Gus Owen, the board

The CPCU Society recently released preliminary results of a comprehensive study revealing the top ch

The Coast Guard is investigating an oil spill from an unidentified source, off Northern California.<

''Don't send apples!'' That was the televised appeal of one regional postmaster this week, as Russia

Israel's largest health insurer has filed a $2 billion lawsuit against Israeli and U.S. tobacco manu

Brazilian customs officers, whose strike and work-to-rule protests have severely disrupted trade, lo

Officials from Gulf Arab states have drafted a proposal for a long-planned unification of custom tar

Canadian heavy oil producer Amber Energy Inc. served notice this week that it plans to fight Alberta

U.S. crude oil inventories rose more than 6 million barrels in the week ended Sept. 25, as compared

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To get a feel for the difficulties involved in reforming China's monolithic state-owned enterprises,

South Korea's Ministry of Finance and Economy said Wednesday that the South Korean Export Import Ban

China has put membership in the World Trade Organization on the political back-burner.This m

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Philips Electronics NV announced plans both to build a chip factory in Singapore and to sell part of

Global yarn production contracted in the second quarter of 1998 by 0.5 percent, compared with the fi

Insured property losses from Hurricane Georges in four Gulf Coast states are expected to reach $1 bi

Much to the dismay of a consumer group, California Gov. Pete Wilson has vetoed two health-care refor

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization said the Asian crisis is causing a downturn i

The Clinton administration may be easing out of a predicament over nuclear sanctions on India and Pa

State Superintendent of Insurance Neil Levin says a hearing will be held Oct. 19 regarding Mutual Li

Japan's vehicle exports in August recorded their biggest monthly drop in two years as Japanese autom

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