Latest news

With fresh economic data suggesting the U.S. economy finally may be on the mend, some recession-numb

An increasing number of reinsurance contracts will be "made in the U.S.A." as the "deteriorating" Lo

UNION TEXAS WON'T SELL PETROCHEMICAL BUSINESSUnion Texas Petroleum Holdings Inc. announced T

RUSSIA DOUBLES PRICES PAID FOR GRAINThe Russian government has doubled the price paid for gr

Grain imports by Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are expected to drop sharply in the 1990

A Minneapolis environmental group filed a lawsuit this week against a local printing company it said

Prudential Property and Casualty Co., Florida's third-largest insurer, will stop writing new residen

Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corp. Thursday signed a research alliance with the Scripps Research Institute

The chief executive of British Airways indicated some flexibility Thursday on the deadline for compl

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

Dec. 3, 1992 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Western Germany's industrial production fell a seasonally adjusted 2.18 percent in October from Sept

Dec. 3, 1992 RESELLER RACKUnleaded Mid- Premium-Unlead Premium-Unle

Enron Corp. and Transco Energy Co. of the United States submitted the highest bids to purchase 70 pe

The Australian government is inviting petroleum companies to apply for 17 new offshore exploration a

The Tokyo International Financial Futures Exchange was weakened since March by the withdrawal of mor

The price of palladium, a relatively rare metal used by the electrical and automotive industries alo

Fundamental differences between consumers and producers point to a long road ahead before the signin

Dec. 3, 1992 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Kuwait will try to keep out of the OPEC quota system until it has restored production capacity to 2.

Dec. 3, 1992 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

California's Supreme Court ruled that reinsurers can apply the money owed to them by a bankrupt insu

The funds for a long-planned bridge that will be the first fixed link between the Canadian mainland

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Precious metal prices are likely to remain weak despite an improved outlook in market fundamentals,

MASS. SEEKS CHANGE IN WORKERS COMP RATEThe administration of Gov. William Weld of Massachuse

The board of Mercantile & General, Britain's biggest reinsurance company, is acquiring a very Scandi

China is sweeping away more than four decades of socialist-style business practices to let enterpris

China has bought an orbiting U.S. telecommunications satellite, giving a big boost to its capacity f

Although Mexico's petroleum sector is generally off-limits to foreigners, the North American free-tr

Demand for gold jewelry, which has outstripped production from Western mines for the last three year

RUSSIA PLEDGES EFFORT ON GRAIN PAYMENTSRussia will do everything it can to resume overdue pa

When Jorge Tamayo Lopez Portillo took over at Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico in April, he inheri

Since 1980, Mexico's infrastructure capacity has grown at a faster rate than gross national product

The United States, tired of being "the world's only policeman on maritime safety," will urge the wor

A recent shutdown of a safety system at a Ukrainian nuclear power station illustrates problems plagu

The U.S. ambassador to the European Community said Wednesday successful General Agreement on Tariffs

VIETNAM TO IMPORT OIL-DRILLING EQUIPMENTLONDON - The Vietnamese government is planni

Unitel Communications Inc., which shattered Bell Canada's century-old monopoly and elbowed into Cana

Textile exports during the first six months of fiscal 1992-93 rose 16 percent over the comparable pe