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The insurance industry is woefully unprepared financially to handle another major catastrophe, execu

In a game of high-stakes political poker, the state's largest business group will risk a $404 millio

Nearly 2,000 sugar cane cutters from Jamaica won't find work in Florida next fall because their empl

Strikes by metal and steelworkers in eastern Germany spread Tuesday into the shipbuilding state of M

South Africa's textile and apparel industry finds itself bludgeoned by competition from so-called in

The U.S. government body that oversees textile and apparel trade is drafting a policy that would all

Central & South West Corp. will acquire El Paso Electric Co. in a deal worth nearly $2.1 billion, th

NATURAL GAS CLEARINGHOUSE Natural Gas Clearinghouse - Posted prices for May 1993 (see Note 1

Florida's top commerce official came away from a meeting with Mercedes-Benz last week convinced Flor

The Port of Pascagoula said M/V John Lykes recently left for Murmansk, Russia, with 4,320 tons of ba

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

Norway's industrial production fell 1.0 percent in March, compared with a 6.8 percent increase in Fe

A year after expanding its East Coast operations through the purchase of a Virginia truckload carrie

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DUBLIN PLANS REVAMP OF INDUSTRIAL POLICYDUBLIN, Ireland - The Irish government announced amb

The Massachusetts auto insurance rate hike for 1993 was improperly set at 5.2 percent and should be

Sturge Holdings, the biggest underwriting agency at Lloyd's of London, announced drastic cost-cuttin

American President Lines is going to purchase six new containerships for more than $500 million to u

Union Pacific's quest for permission to control Chicago & North Western Transportation Co. is gettin

A recent joint U.S.-South Korean exercise successfully shipped an entire military unit for the first

The European Commission has granted members of the Trans-Atlantic Agreement an extra two weeks in wh

New York Mercantile Exchange May 4, 1993Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High Low

The head of Egypt's Sumed oil pipeline has detailed an aggressive campaign to lure shippers away fro

May 4, 1993 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

Railroad and highway safety improved substantially last year, Transportation Department officials to

The World Bank is considering a $1 billion aid package to develop the occupied territories during in

FASHION SHIPPERS GROUP ELECTS NEW OFFICERSNEW YORK - Sara Mayes, director of imports

A pipeline carrying anhydrous ammonia, a potentially toxic farm fertilizer, ruptured early Tuesday,

May 4, 1993 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

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A new survey of French business leaders shows they expect industrial investment spending to fall 9 p

The U.S. dollar declined Tuesday as the market turned even gloomier about the U.S. economic outlook.

IBP Inc., one of the nation's largest meatpacking firms, owes back overtime wages to nearly 24,000 w

A Geneva-based committee that hears disputes under the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) is set to decid

Several locks have reopened on the upper Mississippi River, enabling many barge towboats that had be

The head of the railroad industry's trade association conceded Monday that a big proposed tax on bar

Associated Air Freight of New Hyde Park, N.Y., has opened a new full-service facility in Southern Ca