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GENERAL REINSURANCE CORP. (Stamford, Conn.) - Dallas W. Luby was named executive vice president.

Indonesia reiterated its position this week that it is not interested in unlimited commercial flight

German chemical maker Hoechst AG, hit by weak selling prices, crumbling demand and a strong German m

France insisted at an 80-nation conference Tuesday that a deadline for phasing out ozone-destroying

COLONIAL WILL USE OUTSIDE GENERAL AGENTColonial/Gulfship Marine Inc. said it will begin usin

Ireland, caught up in Europe's currency turmoil, dramatically hiked money market interest rates Mond

Poor freight rates are likely to persist for a time, but "the ingredients for a turnaround within th

The Massachusetts Port Authority will increase the height of two container cranes at its Conley Term

GPA REPORTEDLY EXPECTS TO RAISE FRESH EQUITYGPA Group PLC will tell creditors it expects to

Thwarted in attempts to break into the fast-growing regional transportation market, Yellow Freight S

Nov. 23, 1992 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

A Washington-based policy group is preparing to send a delegation of prominent Americans to Cuba to

Nov. 23, 1992 Copper Total, 70,238. Gold Total, .1,599,582.Silver Total, .282

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 202.91 off 0.39 which compares w

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago11/23 11/20 Change % Change: 10/2

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

China voiced opposition Monday to an upcoming visit to Taiwan by U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hil

RUSSIAN OIL PRODUCTION MOVES SHARPLY LOWERMOSCOW - Russian oil production has droppe

Natural gas utilities are facing their first major chance in more than a decade to grow, thanks to a

Westinghouse Electric Corp. Monday announced a major restructuring that will take it out of its mone

Economics Minister Juergen Moellemann said Monday that the federal government would add at least 10

The European Community Commission and France are on collision course over a mothballed shipyard.

Three Weeks Ended Nov. 14, 1992, vs. Similar 1991 Period Cars CarsLoaded Loaded

Nov. 23, 1992 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

More than 100 U.S. citizens, most of them pastors and lay persons from American churches, arrived in

Italy's privatization program has set investors drooling and economists cheering, but for the countr

U.K. economists as a whole were pleased with Britain's trade and current account data released Monda

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

COCAINE SHIPMENT SEIZED AT HAMBURGBERLIN - Tipped off by U.S. Customs agents, offici

BEST LOWERS RATINGS FOR ALLSTATE INSURANCEA.M. Best Co. Monday lowered Allstate Insurance Co

President-elect Bill Clinton's reiteration of the need to pressure China on human rights drew an unu

Experts attending a symposium on the 1983 downing of South Korean airliner KAL-007 by a Soviet jet f

Taiwan's huge Formosa Plastics Group has scrapped a plan to build an ethylene plant in Xiamen, China

Property and casualty insurers already have been slammed with more than $16.4 billion in catastrophi

Three Midwestern natural gas distributors have agreed to trade service territories, move that will a

Monday Nov. 23, 1992 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

If President-elect Bill Clinton puts too much emphasis on defending democracy in Latin America, the

Canada has offered the United States a new proposal to deregulate the trans- border all-cargo market

British Airways plans to strengthen its Europe Speedbird Courier operations as the European Communit

The Port of Houston, soon to be the proud owner of two grain elevators, expects to decide what to do