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CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON QATAR GAS PLANTDOHA, Qatar - Energy minister Abdullah bin Ham

German exporters are backing their government's decision to change its export credit insurance progr

Indonesia's PT Bukaka Teknik Utama and two Malaysian firms plan to build a $1.66 billion coal-fired

TRAVELERS INC. RAISES QUARTERLY DIVIDENDNEW YORK - The board of directors of the Tra

A court case that could seal the fate of the Lloyd's of London insurance market started Tuesday, wit

A&A REPORTS DROP IN OPERATING INCOMENEW YORK - Alexander & Alexander Services report

The Paraguayan insurance industry is still at odds with the government over portions of a proposal t

It's a thick, black liquid, easily pumped from the ground and stored. When burned, it has the same h

The outlook for a revamped federal Superfund program before Congress adjourns in October has brighte

The state-owned Mexican oil company Petroleos Mexicanos reports that new drilling initiatives in the

After five years of trying, Taiwan privatized its first state-run company on Wednesday when it aucti

In the U.S. chemicals trade during January and February, pharmaceuticals showed a $222 million trade

Lasmo PLC, the U.K. oil exploration and production company, said Wednesday any offer by Enterprise O

State insurance regulators have requested the liquidation of a Utah-based insurance company followin

Kentucky's mining agency has knocked down a request by a company to mine coal beneath Lilley Cornett

The Vermont Captive Insurance Association will hold its ninth annual conference Aug. 16-19 at the Un

Wednesday Apr. 27, 1994 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represen

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 221.65 off 0.64 w

BENZENE PRICE CLIMB BEGINNING TO ABATEThe increase in benzene's price appears to be

Apr. 27, 1994 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

South Korea's ethylene and polyethylene exports jumped year-on-year in 1993, while imports dragged,

The Russian aluminum industry has cut "close to" 200,000 metric tons of output and is on target to m

The international nickel industry, hurt by oversupply and poor prices, sees brighter days ahead.

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150per ton lots &

1386 (Apr. 27, 1994) Previous day - 1371 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

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Daniel Rappaport, chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange, said the exchange will use all its r

GLOSSARY AR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

The embargo of Haiti is having a devastating impact on what remains of the country's once flourishin

The chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange said he was barred under exchange rules and those of

German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and British Prime Minister John Major agreed Wednesday that the two co

Shipowners buying marine fuel in the German port of Hamburg may not be getting value for their money

The British Columbian government's Royal Victorian ferry link between Victoria and Seattle will get

China is widely believed to hold the key to a recovery in the world's ailing wheat trade, as its pop

IRAN STARTS EXERCISES IN STRAIT OF HORMUZNICOSIA, Cyprus - Iran has started a week o

Mills Capital Advisers Inc., the Chicago investment firm named last week as the probable buyer of st

Shipping executives breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday when the deputy mayor of Los Angeles announced

The Port of New Orleans will regain one Mississippi River wharf from the city's Audubon Park Commiss

Russia's trade with China is expected to almost double by the year 2000, with Beijing becoming Mosco