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A fire broke out in the generator room of a British ferry, the Nordic, early Thursday as it crossed

The fiscal 1989 authorization bill for maritime programs under consideration in the House would prov

The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered General Motors Corp. to recall almost 500,000 1985 c

The state Assembly insurance committee Tuesday decided that the idea of basing car insurance rates s

While California farmers still struggle to send rice to Japan, the Japanese are cutting their way in

New Jersey will likely join eight other states in their federal lawsuits against the insurance indus

FIREMAN'S FUND INSURANCE COS. (Novato, Calif.) - Leland Proimos was named senior vice president of t

Prodded by several pending insurance initiatives, the California Senate insurance committee has appr

The president of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association Wednesday criticized Attorney General Jos

IMAGINE GIVING A SPEECH on the insurance industry's image the day the bombshell burst. The b

If the attorneys general who filed massive antitrust lawsuits against the insurance industry win the

Inflation Indexing Seen In Price-Anderson BillHouse conferees on legislation to reauthorize

Life insurance underwriters said Tuesday that they should be able to test policy applicants for AIDS

Pacific Rim trade over the next few years will be influenced more by currency exchange rates and cap

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

The U.S. dollar fell to a four-month low against the yen as the foreign exchange market continued it

West Germany's plans to introduce a 10 percent withholding tax without repealing the existing stock

Japanese life and non-life insurance companies together will suffer $8 billion in overall exchange l

Diversified Swire Pacific Ltd. posted profits for the year through last Dec. 31 of HK$2.39 billion (

British Companies Shunned By ArgentinaBUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina is prohibiting alm

ERNST & WHINNEY (New York) - Jeffrey L. Harfst joined the New York office of this international acco

A committee of French regulators, bankers and other financial authorities Thursday urged that Paris

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

Thu., March 24, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

Ezra F. Vogel says there are more reasons for U.S. businesses to go to Japan than pursuit of the alm

Log exports from British Columbia rose sharply in 1987, going from 2.6 million cubic meters the prev

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

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Japan seeks an agreement with the United States by the end of March on opening the Japanese market w

Hitachi Ltd., a major Japanese electric machinery maker, said Thursday it will use semiconductors pr

Two Agriculture Department economists say the Soviet Union's agriculture is still in trouble despite

Exports, re-exports and imports through Hong Kong all fell sharply in February for the second straig

Hungary Opens Trade Office in SeoulSEOUL, South Korea - Hungary is to open its trade office

Glass Products Firm Forms Canadian UnitDlubak Corp., maker of bent aluminum and glass produc

Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. warned of future job losses and free trade problems after a

Bechtel Group Inc. said it did one-third less work and took in 3 percent fewer orders last year than

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

The 1987 International Sugar Agreement was ratified Thursday and brought into force at a meeting hel

For 58 years, Canada's Bata Shoe Co. has kicked all competition aside to rule the Thai footwear indu

Current Textile Quotas: Where the Average Recent Utilization RateIndicates Full Quota Utiliz