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When the big banks shied away from small export companies in South Florida, Hamilton Bank jumped int

The world electronics market is expected to grow to $940 billion by 1996, upfrom an estimate

China's coal production, however prodigious, seems unlikely to meet demand, officials acknowledge, w

The American Trucking Associations has set up a toll-free telephone number so members of its Team 20

CON ED REJECTS BIDS FOR HIGH-POUR FUEL OILNEW YORK - Consolidated Edison Co. of New

Sea-Land Service Inc.'s decision to charter three ships for its own weekly service to Mexico and Cen

The Port of New York-New Jersey needs nearly $35 million next year for channel deepening, sediment d

Polish Ocean Lines and Mediterranean Shipping Co., which share vessels in the U.S. South Atlantic-to

'QUAD' OFFICIALS DISCUSS WTO ISSUESGENEVA - Senior trade officials from the so-calle

Australia is expected to increase 1993-94 feed barley exports to Saudi Arabia despite prices being d

Thursday, March 24, 1994 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150per ton lots &

Texas Insurance Commissioner J. Robert Hunter has ordered an Idaho firm to stop selling insurance in

As of Mar. 24, 1994 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

The assassination of Mexico's leading presidential candidate threw the nation into collective shock

ZIM ISRAEL REPORTS FINANCIAL TURNAROUNDHAIFA, Israel - Zim Israel Navigation Co. rep

Swedish tanker owners remain cautiously optimistic that the market soon will start to pick up from o

(1) DAILY INDEX Annual Smoothed percent +3.773/18 97.5 3/21 97.5 3/22 97.5

FMC CO. TO INVEST IN ARGENTINE LITHIUMBUENOS AIRES - FMC Co. said it plans to invest

Stock for Electrocom Automation Inc. dropped 17.9 percent Wednesday following news that it was not s

JAPANESE RAIL UNIONS MAY STAGE 1-DAY STRIKETOKYO - Trade union members of 13 private

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The U.S. dollar fell to a five-month low against the deutsche mark Thursday as the German money supp

Vietnam's state-owned Confectimex has signed a US$7.5 million contract to supply garments to the Uni

Michigan voters are a big step closer to deciding in November whether to cut auto insurance rates by

GRYPHON HOLDINGS INC. (New York) - Robert P. Cuthbert has joined the company as senior vice presiden

The traditionally uneconomic trans-Atlantic trade is recovering toward abreak-even position

Thursday Mar. 24, 1994 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

The boom in U.S. chicken exports to Russia has flown the coop. Shipments of U.S.-grown froze

The worst ice blockages since 1978 are delaying big U.S.-flag ships all over the Great Lakes, slowin

The world's top classification societies may start certifying shipping companies' management organiz

Rebounding orange juice prices and revived coffee exports were not enough to offset surging imports

The European Court of Justice rejected Thursday a case brought by Air France against the European Un

British food and drinks group Allied-Lyons PLC announced a $1.1 billionpurchase of Spanish d

India formally protested to the United States its proposal to sell F-16 warplanes to Pakistan, sayin

The first North American Free Trade Agreement transportation summit, halted before it could begin by

GLOSSARY AR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

The Supreme Court Monday will examine California's method of taxing multinational companies in a tax

Taiwan's Titan Group on Thursday commissioned Malaysia's largest petrochemical complex amid talk of

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 230.10 up 0.69 which compares