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ARKANSAS BEST BUYS BACK STOCKFORT SMITH, Ark. - Arkansas Best Corp. announced Friday

After years of healthy increases in research and development spending, G.D.Searle & Co. may

Prospects for European computer-hardware sales have rarely been bleaker, but the outlook for compute

While the "partnership" buzzword has been with us for some time, the concept seems to have taken on

Friday, Nov. 13, 1992 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

KEMPER NATIONAL INSURANCE COS. (Long Grove, Ill.) - James S. Kemper II was elected executive vice pr

Boeing Co. said last week it will request detailed inspections of engine struts on more than 700 jum

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Thursday, Nov. 12, 1992 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

International Petroleum Exchange Nov. 12, 1992Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

The U.S. dollar declined slightly against the deutsche mark and the yen Thursday as an encouraging U

Canada will not regain its prerecession level of employment until the first quarter of 1994 at the e

PERU, BOLIVIA REACH FREE-TRADE AGREEMENTPeru and Bolivia have reached a free-trade a

French Finance Minister Michel Sapin Thursday said the decision to trim 25 basis points from key Ban

COAST GUARD TO END UNPOPULAR BOATING FEESThe Coast Guard will phase out controversial recrea

SKANDIA RE RATING UNDER REVIEW BY BESTOLDWICK, N.J. - A.M. Best Co. placed the "A" rating of

JAPAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles) - Sadao Kita was named executive dir

EXEL LTD. (Hamilton, Bermuda) - Brian M. O'Hara was named chief executive of liability insurer X.L.

Nov. 12, 1992 JAPANFinancial FuturesPrecious MetalsTokyo Commodity E

An old adage in Australia held that the country's wool stockpile would disappear if every Chinese ci

Less than a month after admitting it illegally tried to get volumes of datafrom 1,600 trucki

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

New York Mercantile Exchange Nov. 12, 1992Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High Low

ITT Corp. plans to start building a multimillion dollar Sheraton Hotel in the center of Warsaw early

Heating oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange could climb by up to 3 cents from current lev

Colombia's state oil company, Ecopetrol declared force majeure on all crude oil exports, after the n

Crude oil supplies dropped by 5.4 million barrels in the week ended Nov. 6 compared with the previou

After fighting and winning a bitter struggle early this year to hold onto both the chairman's and pr

Talks to resolve a bitter dispute inside one of the country's largest maritime unions appear to be s

Union Pacific Railroad said it selected Missouri & Northern Arkansas Railroad as the successful bidd

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President Roh Tae-woo broke the ground Thursday for an airport on an offshore site near Seoul, which

Mexico's platform crude-oil production will hold steady at a daily average of about 2.68 million bar

Twenty officers, directors and related companies of the defunct Physicians National Risk Retention G

President-elect Bill Clinton's victory is being seen as sending mixed signals to the biotechnology i

British trade house, C. Czarnikow Sugar Futures, has revised upward its forecast for the 1992-93 wor

Little progress is expected before December on union coal contract talks that miners already said we

BLOW DRYERS, OTHER BATHROOM APPLIANCES Blow dryers. Contact Vela Industrial (H.K) Co., Flat

NYMAGIC POSTS LOSS, CITES HURRICANESNEW YORK - Nymagic Inc., a marine insurer, repor

ZAMBIA COPPER PRODUCER TO DOUBLE WAGESLONDON - Zambian Consolidated Copper Mines has