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Quotations, provided by Citibank/New York, Foreign Exchange Desk, are offered rates of New York City

In a meeting Thursday with investors and airline analysts, USAir Chairman Seth E. Schofield disagree

In a world where many ideas to slow poverty's ominous march have failed, attempts to stimulate growt

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural ServiceAgric

Trans-Pacific air freight carriers were forced to divert some flights Thursday after Alaska's Mount

There are real barriers to exporting - and no end to the imagined ones. The first group below concer

The prospect of a costly trans-Atlantic trade war loomed larger Thursday after the collapse of high-

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

Crown Cork & Seal Inc., a leading packaging company, has offered to buy plastic container maker Cons

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

As of Sept. 16, 1992 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list pric

Japan is expected to sign a three-year agreement Friday with the United States to expand its import

Sept. 16, 1992 JAPANFinancial FuturesPrecious MetalsTokyo Commodity

Sept. 16, 1992 Copper Total, 40,557. Gold Total, .1,816,928.Silver Total, .27

Soldiers evacuated almost half a million people from the path of raging river waters that have wreak

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 202.96 up 1.06 which compares w

Sept. 16, 1992 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represen

EXCHANGE MAY RECEIVE GRANT TO ADVISE RUSSIAThe chances are "quite good" that New York Mercan

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago9/16 9/15 Change % Change: 8/21

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) Sept. 16, 1992Bid AskedCopper_

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,200-$1,300per ton lots &

Government disaster payments and an improved situation for dairy and hog producers should help lift

Bizarre weather on Canada's prairies - one of the world's breadbaskets - has devastated crops and pu

New York has a 60 percent chance of suffering a major earthquake that could cause as much as $25 bil

Hurricane Andrew may have claimed its first insurance company. MCA Insurance Co., Tulsa, Okla., insu

Hurricane Andrew has left 29 property and casualty insurers operating in Florida and Louisiana vulne

Sustainable development of the marine environment has been singled out by the International Maritime

The country's 11 main ports handled 67.7 million metric tons of cargo from April to August, the firs

Singapore's minister of communication said Wednesday that the republic will try to double the size o

American International Group Inc. is planning a major move to heighten its worldwide image as negoti

The Louisiana Department of Insurance is allowing the state's third-largest auto insurer to write ne

An Insurance Brief, "AFC Backs STI Foray Into Life Insurance," on Page 13A Wednesday should have sai

Aetna Life & Casualty Co. is expanding in Southeast Asia with a bank tie-in and sees big prospects i

RLI Insurance Co. is offering an in-home business policy for the approximately 25 million Americans

NAC RE FORECASTS LOSSES FROM STORMSGREENWICH, Conn. - Nac Re Corp. reported Tuesday that the

William G. Jonas was named director of facultative underwriting for the Toronto branch. He will be r

Ellen Sweeney had good vibes about getting Olympic skater Kristi Yamaguchi to endorse her employer's

EASTMAN CHOOSES SITE AT PORT OF ROTTERDAMKINGSPORT, Tenn. - Eastman Chemical Co. President E

Great Lakes Chemical Corp., based here, is on a busy acquisition program in Europe led by Emerson Ka

FARMLAND TO SUPPLY ISRAEL WITH US WHEATKANSAS CITY, Mo. - Farmland Industries has signed a c