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1838 (Oct. 17, 1994) Previous day - 1827 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

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Travelers Insurance Co., the primary life-insurance subsidiary of financial services company Travele

The Colonial Penn Insurance Co. of Valley Forge, Pa., and the Alerion Insurance Co. of Fairlawn, N.J

A surge in auto inventories pushed U.S. business inventories up 1 percent in August to a seasonally

The Tacoma Port Commission last week opted to take on $10 million in additional debt this year by is

Voters in three Massachusetts towns are expected to back redevelopment plans that include continued

U.S. companies are getting ready to move into one of South America's most lucrative cable-television

Indonesia is targeting telecommunications, transport, power generation and water supply in a $53 bil

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York and other sources, are selling r

New York Mercantile Exchange - Oct. 17, 1994 Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High Low

ICAHN GROUP REVEALS STAKE IN WESTERN CO.HOUSTON - Western Co. of North America, the

Russian banks Monday denied responsibility for last week's ruble crisis and urged the authorities no

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

PHILIPPINES CUTS TARIFFS ON TEXTILES, FIBERSMANILA, Philippines - The Philippines ha

Oct. 17, 1994 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Oct. 17, 1994 This table shows the vessels scheduled to call at U.S. coal terminals andthe e

Fighting to supply dairies worldwide, George Hutson, president of Filtration Engineering Co., chased

OPEC producers have a "window of opportunity" to achieve higher oil prices next year if they roll ov

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 228.26 up 0.72 whi

Insurance companies may soon have access to an electronic bulletin board that lists all the homeowne

NET RISES, REVENUE DIPS AT POE & BROWN AGENCYTAMPA, Fla. - Insurance agency Poe & Br

In addition to scrapping their capacity-management program, the 16 shipping lines aligned in the Nor

The prospective buyers of the Central Vermont Railway are trying to occupy the middle ground in a br

The days when the Middle East was viewed as an Aladdin's Cave stuffed with easy-to-snatch petrodolla

Wabash National Corp. said third-quarter 1994 revenue and earnings reached record levelswith a 65 pe

Initial hopes that Finland's decision to join the European Union would boost the pro-EU campaigns in

German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his conservative coalition held onto power this week, gaining a na

HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT PLANS BANK PRIVATIZATIONThe Hungarian government intends to privatize i

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The Austrian energy group OMV announced Monday that its subsidiary was part of a three-company Europ

The 40 percent growth in net income recorded by San Miguel Corp. inthe first nine months of 1994 ref

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has accused an influential Connecticut lobbyist of transferring

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. of Japan and Hyundai Merchant Marine of South Korea likely will hammer ou

The dollar plummeted to a two-year low against the deutsche mark Monday on news German Chancellor He

For Donald McArthur, the urbane president of the Canadian Importers Association, number-crunching ha

Microsoft Corp.'s rocky foray into China has outraged state regulators and the local trade press, bu

Nigeria's government has signaled it will in principle avoid entering new joint ventures with foreig

As of Oct. 17, 1994 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

India, one of the world's largest gold consumers, is expected to import a record 300 metric tons of