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MANUFACTURING INDEX JUMPS FROM JULY LEVELThe National Association of Purchasing Management's

Transport experts and supermarket chiefs will attend an urgent brainstorming session in London Thurs

All six Corpus Christi refineries fall under the cost-cutting umbrella of foreign trade zone status

The most important and lasting benefit of the free-trade agreement being negotiated by the United St

A decision by Japanese partners to expand production at a Saudi-Japan petrochemical plant in Jubail,

TEXTILE PACT TO EXPAND IMPORTS FROM THAILANDU.S. and Thai officials were scheduled t

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USSR SLOW TO USE NEW USDA CREDITSOne week after the United States agreed to speed th

Japanese cotton spinners are waiting for lower U.S. cotton prices before entering the U.S. market ag

The Jardine Matheson conglomerate is considering a listing of its insurance brokerage unit, Jardine

Disputes between insurers and reinsurers are escalating, a consequence of reinsurance recoverability

After months of heated negotiations between Britain and China, the prime ministers of the two nation

The treaty reinsurance market remains in the doldrums, besieged by intense competition, severe overc

India will soon float a global tender for the fourth round of bids for oil and gas exploration in 72

WESTERN GERMANY POSTS INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT DROPFRANKFURT, Germany - Western German industrial p

New York Mercantile Exchange Sept. 3, 1991Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High Low

The latest earnings results for the reinsurance industry - the industry that insures insurers - woul

A brochure for the visitor proclaims that "the Cayman Islands are almost aggressively secretive abou

Stolt Tankers and Terminals (Holdings) SA said Tuesday its profit for the third fiscal quarter ended

CONTINENTAL IN DEAL WITH ITALY'S GENERALIContinental Corp., the insurance holding company, h

A "significant step forward" has been taken in resolving the status of the Hong Kong unit of Bank of

Hints of increasing prices in the workers compensation reinsurance market have drawn new players int

Franklin Nutter is out to prove you can go home again. The Reinsurance Association of America's new

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Norwegian banking troubles have made a credit crunch for shipowners even worse, forcing them to sear

A silver and red tanker truck rumbles down Williams Lake Road in Waterford Township, Mich., on a cle

Large shipper agents are capturing a bigger and bigger share of the domestic intermodal market.<

Tue., Sept. 3, 1991 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

With the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia on the brink of flying apart, mapmakers are delaying publicatio

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Most ruling parties would be very pleased with an election that handed them 61 percent of the popula

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

The Saudi government has given U.S. exporters a two-month reprieve before they must begin using new

On the factory floor, frustration haunts Mark Sisson. If he wants a job done right away and

Switzerland is to lift its ban on hunting ibex for three months because the once-endangered species

HOECHST CELANESE TO RAISE PRICESHoechst Celanese Chemical Group will increase the pr

Reinsurers are feeling more confident about retaining their right to offset the amount they owe inso

Reinsurers are still reeling from a California Superior Court decision denying them the right to res

Shipping traffic has returned to normal on the St. Lawrence Seaway after a damaged lock was repaired