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COMMON SENSE URGED IN FLOOD-DAMAGED AREASBOCA RATON, Fla. - The National Council on

ALEXANDER & ALEXANDER SERVICES INC. (New York) - Elliot S. Cooperstone has been named seniorvice pre

The initial payments to creditors of the world's largest non-life insurance insolvency, the Kwelm co

John Labatt Ltd. has been put on a credit watch by a major Canadian ratings agency because of the de

The growing electronic information superhighway poses yet another arena for insurance fraud, said po

COUNTRY IMPORT % Haiti 37%Mexico 33%

The breakup of the Soviet Union and fragmentation of Eastern Europe may be complicating the life of

If surplus lines insurers ever hope to capture a larger market, they might start by putting a positi

France is threatening to use a controversial veto provision to halt a landmark global accord on ship

Jack Joyce likes a challenge. So when he heard that Oregon had set aside some money to help

A Romanian stowaway escaped earlier this month from a ship docked in Port Elizabeth, N.J., marking t

The article with the headline "TAA Challenger Fails; Third Line to Fade in Two Years," appearing Jul

Monday, July 18, 1994 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The Clinton administration's quest for a radical reform of U.S. export control law faces a possibly

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York and other sources, are selling r

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index rose to a new yearly high of 104.6, up from Friday's

In just over a decade Finance One PLC has gone from a small family operation to one of Thailand's mo

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The U.S. dollar was mixed Monday. It fell against the deutsche mark but rose against the Japanese ye

The number of unemployed people in Sweden fell by 27,000 in June as compared with the same month las

After 25 years of off-and-on negotiations, Canada's 10 provincial premiers and Prime Minister Jean C

Industrial production in Ukraine fell nearly 40 percent in the first half of this year as compared w

Caribbean officials are making a hurried trip to Venezuela this week to try and end a diplomatic qua

MeesPierson, the merchant bank owned by ABN AMRO Holdings NV of the Netherlands, plans to take busin

New Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama pledged in his inaugural policy speech Monday to put Japan's ec

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Reserve Bank Governor Chris Stals has warned against the premature scrapping of the country's dual-e

US TO EASE OFF MEXICO ON TRADE, KANTOR SAYSWASHINGTON - The United States will stop

Caribbean leaders knew the ability of their countries to sell goods and attract foreign investment w

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China reported Monday more rapid growth for its economy and some success in a yearlong campaign to c

With steel imports substantially outrunning demand and merely enlarging stockpiles, Chinese official

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China is hailing the forthcoming visit of U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown as an augury of improvin

The Mexican government has removed steep trade penalties it had imposed on Chinese-made Christmas li

China and Vietnam, currently engaged in a simmering dispute over territorial claims in the South Chi