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FLA. EMPLOYERS CO. REPORTS PROFITS GEORGE TOWN, BRITISH WEST INDIES - Net income at The Flor

Beijing Capital Iron & Steel Co. will strive for expansion of international trade in the 1990s, the

Tariff automation software and publishing companies face an uncertain futurebecause too many

Moving beyond more cautious U.S. And foreign rivals, J.P. Morgan & Co. is emerging as the leading in

West Indies Shipping Corp., a Caribbean shipping line that was shut down in January, will restart op

Premier Li Peng, China's political chameleon, tried to satisfy both economic reformers and Marxist p

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

Mar. 20, 1992 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

Two years after declaring independence, Lithuania sees itself as a crossroads between East and West

For years, Japan has defied economic gravity, growing in leaps and bounds even as other industrializ

The United States exported 439,309 metric tons of wheat and 135,451 bales of cotton to China in Janu

TAX CRACKDOWN SPURS THAI RICE PRICE HIKEBANGKOK, Thailand - Thai mills are charging a premiu

Two leading environmental groups this week harshly criticized a report by the General Agreement on T

Railcar manufacturers, anticipating a boom in U.S. passenger rail service, are looking at a $380 mil

The shipping lines Navieras de Puerto Rico and Sea-Land Service Inc. are not close to amerger agreem

Popcorn may be the favorite treat of American movie lovers, but it is probably not high on anyone's

Mar. 19, 1992 RESELLER Rack_Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded

Mar. 19, 1992 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Industrial natural gas users aren't likely to sign long-term supply contracts, due to the lingering

The Bush administration will formulate a policy to save the U.S.-flag merchant marine, a government

The National Pork Producers Council said it was getting threatening telephone calls demanding it sto

Aluminum ingots_ $1,200-$1,300 per ton lots & in warehouse min. 99.

The National People's Congress, normally a rubber-stamp body, convenes for its annual session today

Consolidated Rail Corp. announced Wednesday the voluntary, immediate separation of 622 workers, the

GRACE UNIT LICENSES COTTON TECHNOLOGYMIDDLETON, Wis. - W. R. Grace & Co. said Monsanto Co. w

Hal Hansen, president of Cargill Investor Services Inc., Thursday was elected chairman of the Future

With the future of the Queen Mary and Spruce Goose at the Port of Long Beach highly uncertain, shipp

The federal agency that insures pension plans intends to make sure financially troubled carriers lik

Japan's plan to reduce its annual limit on auto exports to the United Statesfrom 2.3 million

Laura Ashley Holdings PLC and a Federal Express Corp. unit formed a worldwide alliance to restructur

New York Mercantile Exchange Mar. 18, 1992CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

The nation's oil refineries operated in February at their lowest level in almost five years because

Mar. 19, 1992 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

The German government agency charged with privatizing former state-owned industries in eastern Germa

It was slow going Thursday for truckers in the Northeast as a late winter storm socked the region.

Representatives of Brazil's private cocoa sector will meet Monday to discuss their positions on the

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 211.27 off 0.29 which compare

An increasing number of life insurance companies are offering insureds the chance to collect their d

Japanese life insurance companies may follow commercial banks in disclosing the bad loans they have

The nearly $5.8 billion U.S. merchandise trade deficit in January was down about 4 percent from Dece