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Canada's property/casualty insurers suffered a record underwriting loss of C$419 million (US$360 mil

American Cyanamid Co. said it earned $111 million or $1.16 per share in the second quarter of 1990,

There are two outstanding questions prior to a Senate maritime panel's hearings next week on vessel

July 17, 1990 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

One of the keys to selling your product in a foreign market is to make a product that people in tha

By giving conditional approval to the Eurocorde pricing agreement among leading ship lines on the No

Honeywell Inc. reported that it earned $92.4 million, or $2.40 a share, from continuing operations i

The U.S. Export-Import Bank plans to use an aggressive mix of foreign aid and export credits in tit-

Freight shippers appealed to the Senate Tuesday to alter a rate filing law that could cost them more

Labor unions are keeping up their fight to undo Mayor Lionel Wilson's appointment of himself to the

A $40 million judgment awarded last week to 21 Filipino seafarers by a federal judge in Tacoma, Wash

There's more than one road to China for Honeywell Inc., the Minneapolis-based manufacturer of thermo

KILLER EARTHQUAKE STRIKES PHILIPPINESPart of the luxury Hyatt Hotel in the Philippine city o

To drink Jack Daniel's famous black-label "Old No. 7" Tennessee whiskey the way Roger Brashears does

A rate-making organization for insurers that offer workers' compensation coverage said Monday it no

When voters go to the polls in California this November, they will select California's first electe

ARK. STATE AGENCY PUTS VULCAN ON NOTICETo protect the Arkansas darter, a nearly extinct fish

A House tax-writing subcommittee is seeking comment on legislation that would overturn a new Interna

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago7/16 7/13 Change % Change

July 16, 1990 Copper Total, 15,789. Gold Total, .1,589,479.Silver Total, .252,577,247.

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) July 16, 1990Bid AskedCopper-

July 16, 1990 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

Exports of raw silk and silk fabrics from China brought in US$1 billion in the first half of the yea

The airlifting of mail in undergoing major changes in Australia. Just about all domestic lon

A Massachusetts Port Authority official denies fears by neighbors of suburban Boston's Hanscom Field

While freedom has made politics fashionable in Poland, fashion has become political in a way that wo

From factory floors to government offices, a consensus is growing about the future of Lech Walesa, S

The South Korean government should tighten its monetary policy, in order to bring inflation under c

CARL F. EWIG INC. (South Plainfield, N.J.) - Bernd Homann was named director of marketing and sales,

New York Mercantile Exchange July 16, 1990CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

Waterfront employers at Atlantic and Gulf Coast seaports should "prepare for a strike" if they think

July 16, 1990 No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 23.20

At this city's railway station, a huge mural hovers over passengers. It is a "happy-face" mu

South Korean financial institutions have targeted Hungary as their first outpost in Eastern Europe a

July 16, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

Secretary of Transportation Samuel K. Skinner acknowledged that federal regulators have been too slo

UK MONETARY PLANS SEEN ALTERED BY TIFFA spokesman for the U.K. treasury Monday declined to c

Zim Israel Navigation Co. is boosting its capacity on Far East routes in anticipation of more busine

The following is the list of bunker prices obtained during the course of week ending July 13, 1990.