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The Toronto Stock Exchange, battling global concerns of spiraling interest rates, is determined to b

PRIVATE SECTOR URGED TO AID POORER NATIONSHELSINKI, Finland - Private enterprise should be t

President Bush plans to extend for one year the economic sanctions President Reagan imposed on the P

GDP GROWTH IN EC UNLIKELY TO MATCH '88BRUSSELS, Belgium - Gross domestic product in the Euro

WHAT THEY ARE: Beginning April 1, 1989, a comprehensive series of new economic laws went into effect

Joint venture agreements between British and Soviet companies ranging from expanding Soviet chemical

The Soviet Union is facing its toughest year yet and could degenerate into ''economic chaos" without

Japan could alleviate trade tensions with the United States by granting U.S. companies a share of co

CONSUMER CREDIT RISES $4.215 BILLIONU.S. consumers took on $4.215 billion more in consumer i

Africa can write off the 1980s as a lost decade for economic development and it runs the risk of hav

Sen. Howard M. Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, has launched the latest Congressional attack on the insurance ind

Exxon Corp.'s pledge to pay all claims arising out of the worst oil spill in U.S. history is apparen

Members of the Maine Legislature's Banking and Insurance Committee will try today to agree on legisl

The mutual insurance company set up two years ago by the International Air Transport Association is

A congressional subcommittee will continue hearings next Tuesday into the $2 billion insolvency of T

Insurance commissioners appointed by California governors as diverse as Ronald Reagan, Jerry Brown a

FORMER AIG UNIT VP ADMITS GUILT IN CASEA former employee of American International Group, in

The European Community probably will limit Japanese auto imports to about 1.3 million units in 1993,

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Yoshimasa Koyanemara, 48, still proudly calls himself a steelworker. But a year ago he gave up the f

CHINA'S CASH SHORTAGE THREATENS FACTORIESDesperate cash shortages caused by economic austeri

Time is beginning to run out for negotiators who are trying to hammer out accords on four key areas

NEW YORK - Americans with a death wish can now risk sushi-cide with fugu, a seafood delicacy that be

BUSH URGES ELECTIONS FOR PALESTINIAN ARABSPresident Bush, ending talks with Israeli Prime Mi

The super collider is "virtually devoid of support" in the scientific community, a Pennsylvania Repu

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With the oil spill still floating off the coast of Alaska and the Exxon Valdez refloated, Alaskan fi

Nearly 50,000 unionized Japanese dockworkers walked off the job at nine of the nation's major contai

A federal probe of possible maritime rate kickbacks is focusing on Japan's Showa Line and its San Fr

The powerful head of the Senate Finance Committee and a Democratic ally said Thursday the United Sta

A key U.S. senator charges that Canadian officials are seeking to scrap a bilateral lumber agreement

American President Lines has announced a new deployment that will affect its range of ships, double-

Buying Northwest Airlines for $2.62 billion would not require selling the carrier's "strategic asset

Congress is moving to restrict the insurance industry's exemption from federal antitrust laws despit

The insurance industry is assessing the impact of a New York court decision that broadens liability

ALASKAN OIL SPILL SPURS VARIETY OF LAWSUITSAt least 14 lawsuits representing dozens of plain

South Carolina, home to some of the nation's poorest people, has some of the nation's costliest aut

TRANSCON TO DISTRIBUTE STOCK TO ITS EMPLOYEESTranscon Lines Inc., a major trucking company,

The Providence & Worcester Railroad may seek Massachusetts state funds to level the playing field in

Itel Corp. states a clear corporate goal of long-term growth and good cash flow in its new 1988 annu