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Maus Freres SA of Switzerland said Friday that U.S. authorities approved a finance plan for its P.A.

FOREIGN SALES CORPORATIONS are usually more advantageous to U.S. exporters than domestic internation

Although it's getting harder to convince banks and Wall Street to put money into the shipping indust

Still haunted by fears of a supply shortage in the final quarter of 1991, the oil market took less t

An increasing number of homeowners prefer natural gas heat, according to an annual American Gas Asso

U.S. airlines will face a multi-billion dollar capital shortfall in coming years, a gap that will be

WICAT OFFERS TRAINING TO JAPAN AIR COMMUTER OREM, Utah - Wicat Systems Inc. has agreed to p

German exporters and shippers are carefully eyeing developments in the newly independent Baltic Stat

Sea-Land Service Inc.'s vessel Discovery was reintroduced over the Labor Day weekend to weekly all-w

Sept. 3, 1991 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

What better place than a gambler's paradise for high-stakes reinsurers to gather and trade risks?

Thai PTA Co., which had won the first bidding round to build a petrochemical plant in Thailand, has

Laptop and notebook computers are all the rage. Notepad computers that can be written on seem poised

Florida roofing contractors are vowing a tough fight to stop a proposed 39.3 percent increase in wor

Talks broke off Tuesday in the 10-day-old Canadian postal strike after the Canadian Union of Postal

RAIL AGENCY AWARDS MAGLEV STUDY PACTSThe National Maglev Initiative, an inter-agency

Demand worldwide for reinsurance looks certain to grow, and it will probably be increasingly importa

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 211.78 up 1.63 which compares wi

The directors of the ports of San Francisco and Oakland are as strikingly different as the cities th

New York Mercantile Exchange Aug. 30, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

Itel Corp. said Tuesday it is selling its entire block of Santa Fe Pacific Corp. stock. Sant

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As small earthquakes continue to rattle the public's and insurers' sense of security, The Earthquake

Tuesday Sept. 3, 1991 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

Sept. 3, 1991 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

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