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National Mutual, an Australian-based insurance and financial services company, plans to list its loc

Mexico could emerge as one of the world's top 10 insurance markets early in the next century, accord

As Brazil's 60,000 oil workers gear up for a nationwide strike set for Friday, the national oil mono

International Petroleum Exchange Sept. 23, 1992Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Almost three-quarters of the nation's business executives favor the North American free-trade agreem

Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1992 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Brazil this week signed new loan agreements amounting to $350 million for its Banco Nacional de Dese

Insurers finally are coming to grips with the unimagined fury of Hurricane Andrew, as more companies

BRITISH AEROSPACE PLANS TO CLOSE UK FACTORYLONDON - British Aerospace will eliminate

The market's reaction to progress made Tuesday at the International Coffee Organization talks in Lon

Facing increased competition from U.S. carriers, Varig Brazilian Airlines has centralized its North

The Baltic port of Rostock should set up a customs-free zone to increase general cargo turnover, the

A new shipping line has started service between the Caribbean and South Florida. The new lin

Transportation News Ticker The dry cargo and tanker fixtures listed herewith and compiled in

CALIF. SAYS ALLSTATE MISLED FIRE VICTIMSOAKLAND, Calif. - The California Insurance Departmen

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Canada's west coast ports were strike-bound as longshoremen walked off their jobs late Tuesday, but

The Coast Guard is issuing special policy circulars outlining what tanker operators and oil facility

Finland still has to overcome the economic woes that forced a break in its informal link with the Eu

A new school year started here Tuesday, and Diana Fadeyeva, a high school history teacher, prepared

Brazil has proposed a broad bilateral trade liberalization accord to Mexican authorities, and the Me

Debate on the proposed North American free-trade agreement continued in force this week, with indust

Hungary, Poland and the Czech and Slovak federations presented a ''convergence" plan detailing how t

Sept. 23, 1992 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represen

Sept. 23, 1992 Copper Total, 45,393. Gold Total, .1,806,003.Silver Total, .27

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 201.60 off 0.46 which compares

William Agee, chairman and chief executive of Morrison Knudsen Corp., called for more even-handed tr

New York Mercantile Exchange Sept. 22, 1992CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cent

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The Federal Maritime Commission Wednesday voted to issue proposed rules allowing two or more unaffil

Adam Opel AG, the German subsidiary of General Motors Corp., Wednesday opened the most modern car pl

U.S. companies and their foreign competitors are feuding over the lucrative market for AIDS test kit

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co.'s first converted oceangoing barge sailed for West Africa last week on its

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The European Commission will prepare new regulations for multimodal transport in order to work out d

A potentially divisive issue at the Chicago Board of Trade over whether the compensation of top exec

The Department of Transportation has awarded intermodal planning grants totaling$3 million to Alaska

An Agriculture Department decision due by the end of the month could swing corn production by 1 bill

Virginia legislators are pressing for a last-minute change to a coal industry health-care proposal t