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American insurers want to "get the lead out" of their liability policies, and the sooner, the better

Proposed legislation calling for the creation of a federal disaster reinsurance fund is picking up c

J. Wesley Ooms, CPCU, CLU, who takes over as president of the Society of Chartered Property and Casu

Property and casualty insurers are worried that the Clinton administration's health-care reform plan

Edwin Overmyer, outgoing president of the Society of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters, i

All life-of-contract highs and lows on all contracts are based on actual transactions, not bid and a

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 220.01 up 1.27 which compares

Oct. 22, 1993 Copper Total, 96,452. Gold Total, .2,361,080.Silver To

Indonesia would buy a lot of U.S. farm products if American exporters were aggressive there, but the

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago10/22 10/21 Change % Change: 9/

OSHA SAFETY AWARD GIVEN TO GE PLASTICSPEARLINGTON, Miss. - GE Plastics on Thursday r

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,230-$1,260per ton lots &

Tanox Biosystems said that the Swiss pharmaceutical company Ciba-Geigy Ltd. has returned to Tanox al

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index moved higher last week as metal prices continued to r

South Africa's largest gold producer unveiled plans Thursday for a major new mine project that would

Executives of IMC Fertilizer Group Inc. told shareholders that while recent market developments have

Oct. 22, 1993 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

JAPAN FIRM DECLINES COMMENT ON RICE DEALAn official at Japan's Satake Corp. Thursday decline

After recent bad - some would say disastrous - experiences with hedging, have heating oil dealers re

Golden Age of Toy Boats. Through March 5. New York. Sampling from Forbes Magazine fleet includes an

Port administrators at Santos have joined a revolt against a federal port user surcharge that accoun

Paul Richardson, a consultant and former president of Sea-Land Service Inc., was named the 1993 reci

Some shippers are finding that the West Coast often ends in Nevada, as increasing numbers of truck d

Two independents and a conference carrier will form a vessel-sharing arrangement to plythe busy Medi

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The Clinton administration Thursday declined to endorse the addition of the tough Super 301 trade la

After an unexplained last-minute snag, Bangladesh has made its currency fully convertible on the cur

Barge owners and shippers face a new set of fuel taxes and lock-use charges under the provisions of

Thursday, Oct. 21, 1993 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York, are selling rates among trading

The surge in diesel fuel prices in California has been hard on truckers, but for truck stop operator

Chevron Corp.'s asphalt refining plant at Point Wells, near Richmond Beach, Wash., and another in Po

The U.S. dollar rallied sharply Thursday after the Bundesbank surprised the market and cut both its

Independent food exporting nations accused the United States and the European Community Thursday of

A high-level U.S. delegation arrives in Beijing this weekend to try to force open retail and telecom

As U.S. automakers worry about dumping in the United States by their Japanese counterparts, U.S. par

U.S. automakers Thursday accused their Japanese competitors of dumping cars in the U.S. market, even

The Clinton administration's decision to link a Customs reform bill to passage of the North American

U.S. sales to Mexico of environmental technology and services would roughly triple to $3 billion by

JAPAN TO STAND PAT IN CONSTRUCTION TALKSTOKYO - Japan's Cabinet Thursday decided not