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Mobil Chemical Canada Ltd. will double its polyethylene stretch film operations in Belleville, Ontar

REINSURERS REPORT RISE IN WRITTEN PREMIUMSA Reinsurance Association of America survey of 68

The United States imported record levels of farm goods in the first half of this year but also incre

You almost have to feel sorry for the airline industry, caught between the rock of rising fuel costs

JUNE PLASTICS OUTPUT OVER 4 BILLION POUNDSPlastics resin production totaled nearly 4.5 billi

The table "Leading Commodities Carried by Ivaran Lines," on Page 4 of the Special Advertising Supple

SP TO RAISE RATES ON PERISHABLE TRAFFICSouthern Pacific Transportation Co. is raising rates

With a major contract about to be awarded in October, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is approachin

The U.S. economy grew at sluggish 1.2 percent annual rate between April and June after expanding at

REGIONAL BLOCS European Trade and Technology - 1992 and Beyond. Sept. 3-6. Sunderland, Engla

Fri., Aug. 24, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Adidas AG, Europe's leading sporting goods maker, on Friday said its losses rose to 112 million deut

The Malaysian Cocoa Board, seeking new markets in East Asia, is planning its first ever promotional

Big Oil is again getting hit over prices at the gasoline pump, but this time the complaint is that t

West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl Friday hailed East Germany's agreement on a timetable for German

A compromise bill aimed at making low-cost auto insurance available to California drivers is one-thi

A growing number of economists are predicting that the sluggish U.S. economy will slide into recessi

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

Aluminum ingots- $1,715-$1,725 per ton lots & in warehouse min. 99.7

1220 (Aug. 24, 1990) Previous day - 1221 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index rose to a new 1990 high of 106.8 Friday in response t

TOKYO TO DELAY START OF COMPUTERIZED TRADEThe Tokyo Commodity Exchange for Industry will del

Executives at DHL Worldwide Express' North American operation are concentrating on establishing stro

COATING RESINS Reichhold Chemicals Inc.'s Coating Polymers & Resins division said it will in

Higher oil prices have given chemical manufacturers a rationale to raise prices and try to generate

A recent trade mission to the Soviet Union and Western Europe is generating promising prospects for

The Port of Longview said it entered an agreement to provide Arco Products Co., a division of Atlant

Allstate Life Insurance Co., reversing a decision it made two weeks ago, has decided to accept new a

RAIL LINE ABANDONMENTS are receiving greater scrutiny from the Interstate Commerce Commission.

When some 35,000 sailors were ordered to the Middle East, a large chunk of Norfolk's economy went wi

Economic growth this year is not expected to exceed a bare 2.5 percent, the government said Friday.

Japan's two largest carmakers Friday announced increased production in July, but while exports by To

John Bowers, president of the International Longshoremen's Association, is requesting his union loc

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CHASE INSURANCE HOLDING CORP. (Houston) - Peter M. Wallner was named president of Chase Reinsurance

A top U.S. rice industry official said last week he was "extremely optimistic" that Japan would agre

Insurance companies are profiteering from the Middle East crisis by imposing excessive surcharges on

Even before the Tokyo stock market went into its latest tailspin, investors had begun to worry about

After almost three years, Maersk Line is preparing to drop the other shoe on the North Atlantic tra