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Donegal Group Inc. plans to cut expenses by $6.1 million in 2000.The reduction includes elim

Though major insurance claims in the shipping industry have declined over the past decade, costs hav

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Freight forwarder and logistics group Fritz Companies Inc. announced net income of $6.0 million for

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

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

China will further open its insurance market to the world, an official said, but gave no details or

Aegon NV plans to donate $1 million to form an insurance educational fund at Qinghua University in B

Science Applications International Corp., betting that business-to-businesselectronic commerce is th

'We've got to do something to change the standard (under which) Customs can change a ruling they've

The top priority for U.S. ports is finding a way to make their voice heard in Washington, said J. Ro

When California Analytical Instruments Inc. decided to sell its engine emission monitors in China, i

It should be business as usual for U.S. importers of textiles and apparel when the Portuguese territ

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Singapore's PSA Corp. will develop, operate and manage the container business at Portugal's Port of

China Shipping Group, virtually unknown in the United States until recently, is determined to join t

More than 40 years after Malcom McLean's Ideal X sailed from the Port of New York with the first con

Foreign direct investment rose by 39 percent last year to $644 billion, according to the United Nati

The United States is ''shocked'' by a flood of durum wheat being imported from Canada and is surveyi

Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have decided that services incidental to manuf

Thailand is speeding back toward economic health after more than two years of slump, figures from th

Farm ministers from the developed world's most powerful nations are being thrust into the role of tr

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Sept. 30, 1999Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Liberalization of China's insurance sector, long a key demand of U.S. trade negotiators, is proceedi

The widely circulated picture of U.S. Ambassador James Sasser apprehensively peering out of his besi

Congress is taking steps toward renewing the Generalized System of Preferences, an action that impor

Overcapacity in the tanker industry ''will be a problem for years to come,'' and owners should refra

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Sept. 29, 1999CURRENT: 1223 PREVIOUS DAY: 1217 The Baltic International Freight Futures

Sept. 28, 1999U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Sept. 29, 1999NO. 4/ NO. 6/ NO. 6/ 1% 1% 0.5%Buckley

A Senate amendment that would liberalize farm trade with Cuba and ease the decades-long embargo appe

Independent truck drivers at the ports of Seattle and Tacoma are threatening to resume labor disrupt

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

Pre-shipment inspections, required on shipments to many countries, are generating disputes over valu

Sept. 29, 1999Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Sept. 28, 1999PREV. CLOSE HIGH LOW VOL. CLOSESept. --

Russian insurers dispute allegations of fraud in their industry and claim the charges are timed to