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Standard & Poor's has assigned an AA+ claims-paying ability rating to First Colony Life Insurance Co

Reliance Group Holdings Inc. and Transamerica Corp. said Tuesday that they have signed a definitive

Home heating oil prices continued to increase during the week ended Dec. 28, with the statewide reta

UPS LAUNCHES ROUTES TO SEOUL, TOKYOLOUISVILLE, Ky. - United Parcel Service Inc., today begin

Precious metal prices were moderately lower Tuesday led by a sharp decline in the price of platinum.

Prices for oilseeds, oils and fats and oilmeals are likely to continue to rise this year because of

A maritime brief that appeared on page 3B of The Journal of Commerce Dec. 13 under the headline, "Ra

It took a lot of convincing to get Canadians to agree to open up trade borders with their big Americ

Bangladesh apparel exporters could be facing a shrinking American market as U.S. trade officials uni

Tue., Jan. 2, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

Business interests from Wall Street to Beacon Hill put heavy pressure on Gov. Michael S. Dukakis Tue

Five American companies are among eight firms being considered for initial work on Hong Kong's new a

A research vessel that spearheaded the 1970s and 1980s cleanup of Lake Erie faces an uncertain New Y

MEDICARE CUTS TO STAY UNDER OBRA 1989JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Reduced Medicare payments under Pa

Martyn Merritt, head of the Ariel Maritime Group of forwarders and consolidators, said he believes t

Jan. 2, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

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The 1990s will bring consumers face to face with their own contradictory goals - cheap food vs. safe

With the winds of change sweeping across Eastern Europe, Ireland has pledged as new European Communi

Officials at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. believe that the 1990s will be the decade that the compan

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Poised at the start of the new decade, the capital of the largest and most populous state in the Ara

NORTH AMERICA Consumer Electronics Show. Jan. 6-9. Las Vegas. Contact Consumer Electronics S

INTEREST RATES WILL CONTINUE TO FALL through the winter months as the economy skates closeto a reces

Authorities and barge operators spent Tuesday checking the security of barges tied along the Mononga

Maritime operations at the Port of Seattle are expected to slip farther into the red this year, losi

Officials of foreign airlines at Philadelphia International Airport are enraged that the city is con

Kuehne & Nagel AG is closing its U.S. headquarters at the World Trade Center and moving to Jersey Ci

PANAMANIAN BECOMES CANAL ADMINISTRATORPANAMA CITY, Panama - A Panamanian became the senior a

Canadian shoppers have made this holiday season jolly for U.S. retailers, but some residents are fee

Africa, mourning a "lost decade" of development, begins the 1990s fearful that political changes swe

Industry sources expect the tentative labor settlement at Pittston Coal Group Inc. to weaken coal pr

Romania is expected to rely heavily on Western technology and expertise to rebuild an economy shatte

PURCHASERS' INDEX ROSE TO 48 PERCENT IN DECEMBERThe nation's purchasing managers' index rose

Kuehne & Nagel AG, the world's largest freight forwarder, has a new management structure designed t

POTASSIUM ACID TARTRATE Pfizer Inc.'s specialty chemicals group will increase the price of p

STEPHEN E. McKITTRICK speaks admiringly of the airlines' impressive advances in cargo-handling and c

The Japanese economy heads into the 1990s riding a boom based on spending at home. Its fundamental s

Jan. 2, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

A trading company owned by Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega's former presidential candidate was a slush f