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The failure of First Executive Life Insurance Co. Last week may signal more bad news ahead for the l

MASS. AUTO BUREAU TAPS GENERAL COUNSELThe Automobile Insurers Bureau of Massachusetts appoin

1583 (Apr. 15, 1991) Previous day - 1588 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Apr. 15, 1991 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

There are no silver ingots or treasures of gold in the wreck of the Seabird, a side-wheel steamboat

FRENCH COMPANY FINDS CRUDE OIL OFF BRUNEIFrance's Elf Aquitaine Inc. made a significant oil

The Department of Agriculture will start collecting inspection user fees from nearly every vessel en

Members of the trade community are stepping up efforts to have the U.S. Treasury Department eliminat

A Dunkirk appeals court upheld French grain exporter Soufflet's right to hold three Soviet ships at

TO THE UNITED STATES/CANADA BANGLADESH. May. Washington, San Francisco and New Orleans. The

WHOLESALE PRICES INCREASE 0.1 PERCENT IN JAPANThe Japanese wholesale price index for March a

Crucial talks last week aimed at averting possible U.S. trade retaliation against China yielded "alm

Shipping Corp. of India plans to buy 129 ships totaling 4.86 million deadweight tons by 1995 at a to

CSX INTERMODAL (Hunt Valley, Md.) - Mark W. Young was promoted to Southeast regional sales director.

The European Community was rebuffed last week in an effort to slow down an investigation of alleged

An oil field of "world significance" was discovered in the central and southern highlands of Papua N

Japanese dock labor unions were expected to continue picketing at nine of the country's largest cont

The U.S. dollar remained lower Monday though it rebounded off its lows on a government official's ro

INDONESIAN WORKERS RIOT OVER CONDITIONSJAKARTA, Indonesia - About 2,800 women workers at a S

Sunshine Mining Co. said its Sunshine Precious Metals unit has defaulted on its silver index bonds a

While it would be premature to revise the "Misery Index," the sum of the unemployment rate and the r

BFGoodrich Co., of Akron, Ohio, and Schoeneck Containers Inc., of New Berlin, Wis., devised and impl

A senior U.S. Treasury official said Monday that high global interest rates are restraining growth i

GRACE PLANS TO CUT BOARD OF DIRECTORSNEW YORK - W. R. Grace & Co. announced that, as part of

Four major insurance companies are included among nearly 500 rated as having ''below average" financ

Singapore International Monetary Exchange Apr. 15, 1991Dubai Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel

Monday Apr. 15, 1991 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

Mon., April 15, 1991 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) Apr. 15, 1991Bid AskedCopper-

IS PAPERLESS TRADING'S LEADING ASSOCIATION about to disassociate? Officials say no; insiders paint a

A short railroad strike will have little effect on the U.S. economy, economists and consultants surv

Seamen agreed Monday to a partial end to a strike that has crippled New Zealand's ports for almost a

About 1 million Soviet Jews, with visas already granted, have canceled or postponed emigrating to Is

Federal Express Corp. is weighing the benefits of establishing two additional regional air cargo hub

In an apparent boost for Russian leader Boris N. Yeltsin, striking Soviet miners in a remote arctic

Iraq's largest oil refinery resumed production Monday after a three-month stoppage caused by allied

The good times are back for the American Bureau of Shipping. After five or six years of losi

Telefonica-USA Inc., a subsidiary of Telefonica de Espana SA, will begin marketing international ser

Jamaica's agriculture sector has received a fillip through a major investment by Comet Rice Inc., of

CFTC, BRAZIL TO SHARE COFFEE INFORMATIONWASHINGTON - The Commodity Futures Trading Commissio