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Two white South African insurance salesmen who were charged with fraud for taking out life policies

New claims for state unemployment insurance benefits were made by 459,000 people during the week end

Japan's January current account surplus, to be announced today, will be vastly larger than the Janua

Malaysia's Transport Minister said Thursday his government planned to build a second port in the sta

Mexico is planning a compulsory retirement savings program that bankers say will double the number o

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

Japanese power companies will have to increase their fuel-burning power output this summer unless th

Five nights before President Bush sat down to eat Thanksgiving dinner in Saudi Arabia with U.S. troo

Felixstowe, Britain's largest container port, is trying to break British Rail's monopoly of block fr

Nearly all members of the group that sets freight rates for shipping between Europe and the Far East

Ocean carrier representatives entered a panel session of this week's Refrigerated Transpo '92 confer

Vietnam will open bidding for five new offshore petroleum exploration and development concessions by

Australia's position in Japan's beef market is improving as buyers turn awayfrom higher U.S.

A $3 billion lawsuit was filed Thursday in a Los Angeles Superior Court by John Garamendi, Californi

Singapore International Monetary Exchange Feb. 27, 1992Dubai Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel

Average consumer spending by all types of Japanese households in December was US$3,354 (432,639 yen)

A few years ago, Kyle, a recovering alcoholic with the AIDS virus, a bum knee and no job, would have

The New Jersey Administrative Court's recent decision to deny a 19 percent rate increase to Allstate

The U.S. Export-Import Bank, shifting policy to reflect the demise of the Soviet Union, said it will

DEVELOPMENT BANK TO BOOST CHINA LOANSThe Asian Development Bank plans to lend between US$700

Feb. 27, 1992 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

Feb. 27, 1992 Copper Total, 29,010. Gold Total, .1,375,866.Silver Total, .279

Heavy buying interest from major and independent refiners spurred gasoline prices for April and May

Uncertainty about deliveries of March futures contracts prompted selling of wheat as Chicago Board o

Japan's imports of unwrought cobalt and cobalt powders increased to 6,694 metric tons in 1991 from a

Business spokesmen are voicing "serious concern" that a new international pact will give U.S. export

PACIFIC RESCUE DELAYS DOCTOR LYKES DEPARTUREA rescue at sea has delayed the initial

Officials claimed they had struck a major blow against mob influence on the hub of American fashion

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

A presidential decree has freed a major Russian fertilizer exporter from export taxes and forced sal

Following a series of reports, a U.S. government official denied that an eastern Germancompany has b

An Insurance Earnings item on Page 9A Feb. 26, "Pretax Income for '91 Rose at Sedgwick," should have

Cheyenne, Wyo.-based Old Faithful Life Insurance Co. was placed under state receivership by the Wyom

When Karen Fisher, a Los Angeles commercial designer, was offered the chance to work for a Japanese

A profitable subsidiary of Pan American World Airways went on the auctioneer's block Wednesday as pa

TWA TO BEGIN SERVICE BETWEEN NY, MOSCOWMOUNT KISCO, N.Y. - Carl C. Icahn, chairman and chief

The U.S. dollar turned mixed early Thursday afternoon after rising earlier amid rumors of global int

Singapore's current account surplus doubled to over US$4 billion, and its economy grew by 6.7 percen

The brinkmanship tactics of the world's largest trading powers have shaken the besieged Uruguay Roun

American President Lines Ltd. has signed a priority berthing agreement with the Port of Singapore Au