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Soon businesses will be able to buy workers compensation insurance via the Internet.Wausau I

Aon Corp. said revenue for the third quarter increased 10 percent, to $1.8 billion from $1.6 billion

Washington lawyer Peter Friedmann says there's a general misunderstanding in the shipping industry o

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Ownership of Europe's second-largest terminal operator has passed to a consortium that includes Hutc

Six months after the Ocean Shipping Reform Act became law, its impact is still being sorted out.

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Transitional programs that encourage ill or injured employees to return to work gradually appear to

For years, executives at Federal Express and United Parcel Service have pushed for a hemisphere-wide

Nov. 3, 1999Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

Nov. 2, 1999U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

The hull of the EgyptAir Boeing Co. 767 jetliner that plunged into the sea off the Massachusetts coa

Property/casualty premiums will rise more next year than this year, a panel of Wall Street stock ana

KLM Cargo, spurred by Asia's economic recovery, on Wednesday reported strong gains in volume.

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Miami and Panama City, Panama, are jockeying to become the permanent seat for a secretariat when the

U.S. apparel companies sourcing their product in Mexico must be prepared for anything from truck hij

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots $1,500-$1,600 per ton lots & in warehouse

Key movements in 20-foot ocean container units (TEUs)July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. F

Within a day of getting permission to invest in mutual funds, China's underwriters snapped up one-th

While the Port of Marseille's business plan targets the container market, the port is competing with

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using joc chemical pricesMonday: Botanicals-Spices, Balsams-Gums, Waxes, Naval Stores.<

Thomas Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, used a hemispheric trade forum here to ca

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The Port of Houston has won local voters' approval to issue $387 million in bonds to start construct

Japan Airlines said it earned $56.3 million in the six months ended Sept. 30, down from $161.7 milli

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Three Russian firms that insured a satellite for $24.4 million will decide on payment after a specia

''Don't look back, something may be gaining on you,'' advised the late baseball pitcher Satchel Paig

The 29 leading industrial nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is reminding importers that wooden pallets and crates from China

The Mexican government has backed down on threats to tax the U.S. operations of companies that parti

The New York foreign exchange rates below are selling rates among trading banks of $1 million and mo

'We're totally at the mercy of the exporter and the steamship line on service contracts.'

This year's efforts by the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements and U.S. Customs t

The Federal Maritime Commission has fined several non-vessel-operating common carriers a total of $8

Spot price inflation rate smoothed, annualized *1999 High: 95.2 1999 Low: 86.7 1998