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FIRST REINSURANCE CO. OF HARTFORD (Hartford, Conn.) - William C. Van Brunt was named executive vice

Robert Gierszal, president of Codan Stevedoring Corp., based in Erie, Pa., hopes to nail down a deal

Legislation will be introduced shortly to tighten safety regulations on toys and other children's pr

Out of the ashes of Infoport, a failed port automation project here, a newinitiative is being develo

RAIL EQUIPMENT FINANCE '90, sponsored by Railroad Financial Corp. and Business Railroader, March 4-6

LUFTHANSA SEEKS OK TO SERVE 3 US CITIESLufthansa German Airlines has asked the Department of

There's a new player in the liquefied natural gas vessel purchase game, and it's upped the ante dram

U.K. confectionery and soft drinks group Cadbury Schweppes said Wednesday its pretax profit rose 16.

Two full memberships at the Chicago Board of Trade Tuesday changed hands at $325,001 and then $325,0

PacifiCorp's Pacific Power & Light unit said kilowatt-hour sales increased 6 percent for the fourth

Insurance companies for Springfield Mall concluded a multimillion-dollar settlement Tuesday with the

ECONOMY GROWS 0.9 PERCENT IN QUARTER, 3 PERCENT IN YEARThe economy grew at a faster 0.9 perc

The weakness of U.S. financial markets will hinder the growth of U.S. trade, economist Henry Kaufman

Czechoslovakia is emerging as a good bet to become one of Eastern Europe's economic success stories

Feb. 28, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

The strike at Pittston Coal Group Inc. is over. Now comes the tough part. With a union contr

Exxon Corp., facing up to $640 million in criminal charges over last year's massive oil spill in Ala

For chemical manufacturers, paperless trading is the present rather than the future, according to a

PORT OF GREATER BATON ROUGE (Port Allen, La.) - Wesley H. "Buddy" Knox was named director of trade d

Attempts by several of the world's leading coffee producers to formulate proposals for a new coffee

FRENCH TRADE DEFICIT SHOWS SHARP DECLINEFrance recorded a seasonally adjusted trade deficit

The Bush administration and congressional leaders have reached an understanding on Congress' role in

Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc. said Wednesday it would cut 2,000 jobs by the end of March, following ea

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

The Dutch Port of Rotterdam's exposed Delta Terminal remained out of action again Wednesday as stron

Exxon Chemical Co. is close to signing a deal to buy Allied-Signal Inc.'s polyethylene business, ma

Gov. Jim Florio's auto insurance reform plan has passed its first major political hurdle. A

''High Court Upholds Ruling on Damage Suit," which appeared on Page 3B in The Journal of Commerce Fe

Growth in exports from the Philippines slackened last year while the country's imports soared, leavi

Few things seem more American than Coleman Co. lanterns at campsites or Coleman coolers on picnics,

The United States and the Soviet Union have signed for the second time a textile agreement limiting

Anybody want to send a package from Anchorage to Miami via Toluca, Mexico? Finally, this ser

Despite a protest from the government of the Territory of Guam, the Interstate Commerce Commission h

Tue., Feb. 27, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

It is amazing how Japanese companies can seemingly compete so heartily against each other yet cooper

AUSTRALIAN WHEAT SALES TO JAPAN SEEN STABLEJapan's Food Agency and the Australia Wheat Board

An American-based mining company must built a smelter in Indonesia if it wants to extend its copper

Sand Technology Systems International announced it has begun preliminary negotiations with Nissei Sa

* Gordon Platt - Credit Outlook 3A * EC 1992 Regulatory Roundup 4A* Richard Lawrence - Trade

The battle for XTRA Corp. kept investors on the edge of their seats Tuesday afternoon as both sides