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An assassination squad armed with submachine guns killed the head of Peru's largest labor confederat

European Community farm finance specialists will start work this week on the fine details of changes

24,000 LAID OFF IN '92 AT S. AFRICA GOLD MINESJOHANNESBURG, South Africa - South Africa's go

Siberian diamond bosses said they will soon have a secondary market in diamonds, which could challen

Honduran lawmakers are accelerating the country's drive to liberalize its economy and embrace the fr

KIM YOUNG-SAM ELECTED SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENTSEOUL, South Korea - Kim Young-Sam, a fo

Japan's net worth fell in fiscal year 1991-92 (April to March) for the first time since the Economic

French October industrial production, excluding construction and public works, rose a preliminary 0.

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index edged higher last week despite weaker cotton prices.<

Z. Lou Guttman has decided to resume his duties as chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange, end

Dec. 18, 1992 JAPANFinancial FuturesPrecious MetalsTokyo Commodity E

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 203.73 up 0.63 which compares

Dec. 18, 1992 Copper Total, 84,277. Gold Total, .1,511,244.Silver Tot

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago12/18 12/17 Change % Change: 11/2

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,150-$1,250per ton lots &

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) Dec. 18, 1992Bid AskedCopper_

Dec. 18, 1992 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Friday Dec. 18, 1992 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

REPUBLICANS BLAST NY BLUE CROSS, SHIELDALBANY, N.Y. - New York's Republican Senate M

The chairman of the second-largest French insurance group has profited from his alliance with the ne

The New York Mercantile Exchange, which said it will launch its Access electronic trading system by

Some of the heaviest loss-making investors at the Lloyd's of London insurance market at last may hav

Maryland Insurance Commissioner John Donaho said he might resign his post after absorbing a public t

William E. Thiele, president of Continental Insurance Group, is returning to the reinsurance end of

The United States and Russia are likely to arrange within weeks a special finance facility to help s

A bill will be introduced at the next session of the Texas Legislature that will impose "a small tax

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

Ship lines can be taxed for their use of public container facilities, a California appeals court has

In "Maritime Policy Materials Earmarked for Clinton," a story on Page 1B on Dec. 4, a Department of

U.S. ocean carriers say the South Korean government's efforts to liberalize their access to trucking

Traditional maritime containers of 20 feet or 40 feet continue to dominate the world fleet despite a

New Zealand moved a step closer to healing a security rift with the United States last week when a g

Four containerships will be withdrawn from the North Atlantic trades early next year as part of the

The 1992 shipping season on the St. Lawrence Seaway ended on a dark note today, with traffic down by

The supervisory board of Royal Nedlloyd Group NV called for the resignation of one of its own member

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PEMEX SEEKING BIDS TO MODERNIZE REFINERYMexico's state-owned oil company has issued a call f

PAPER: THAILAND, RUSSIA EYE RICE-GEM SWAPBANGKOK, Thailand - The Thai government has propose

As of Dec. 18, 1992 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained

Univar, one of the nation's largest chemical distributors, advised analysts that it expects to show