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Swiss Reinsurance Co., the world's second-largest reinsurer, said first-half profit rose to 2.56 bil

European insurers participating in an international commission to resolve unpaid Holocaust-era insur

Hurricane Floyd roared up the Eastern seaboard Thursday, but the powerful storm had few lasting effe

The man whose steel-loaded truck was hit by an Amtrak train in March told federal investigators that

Sept. 16, 1999NO. 4/ NO. 6/ NO. 6/ 1% 1% 0.5%Buckley

Sept. 15, 1999U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

American International Group Inc.JOSEPH SMETANA was appointed chairman, commercial lines div

American International Group Inc. has signed an agreement to market insurance products to Reader's D

DaimlerChrysler AG and the United Auto Workers said Thursday they reached a tentative agreement on a

Higher fuel costs cut operating income at FDX Corp. by $27 million in the fiscal first quarter ended

U.S. manufacturers, the Big Five accounting firms and the Border Trade Alliance are pressuring the C

*Sept. 15, 1999CURRENT: 1161 PREVIOUS DAY: 1143 The Baltic International Freight Futures

As China resumes key talks on entering the World Trade Organization, it is preparing to abandon a lo

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

Survivors of the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history, the World War II sinking of the USS India

SAP AG, the German software giant, will incorporate services of the National Transportation Exchange

Europe's freight trucking industry is divided about whether the Year 2000 computer problems will hav

When angry pilots went on strike against Northwest Airlines last year, equally angry travelers reviv

Nine shipper organizations from North America, Asia and Europe signed a joint statement this week ur

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

Lincoln Re plans to buy Alden Risk Management Services of Miami for $41.5 million in cash.Th

Cargo theft rose sharply last year and most freight transportation executives expect a ''new, smarte

An International Monetary Fund loan of $4.8 billion went mostly to well-connected banks, and wasn't

Russian officials shrugged off suggestions on Wednesday that the Y2K computer bug could plunge the v

Australian unions on Wednesday appeared ready to end their bans against Indonesian trade as the Unit

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

A shipper at a U.S. trade mission in Oslo this summer had St. Lawrence Seaway officials shaking thei

The pilots of an Argentine flight that crashed in Buenos Aires two weeks ago killing 67 people were

Sept. 15, 1999Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

China will increase deficit spending in the next year to help pull the economy out of its deflationa

The Caribbean and Fiji delegates at a 17-nation African, Caribbean and Pacific sugar producers confe

The following tradeleads appear exclusively in print in The Journal of Commerce. The trade leads are

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British truckers are traveling hundreds of miles to mainland Europe - to fuel up.The gap bet

India defended the readiness of its key economic sectors for the Year 2000 (Y2K) computer problem on

The European Commission on Wednesday announced its approval of a joint venture between Pratt & Whitn

Beleaguered Korea Life Insurance Co. has been declared insolvent and ordered to retire all its exist

Britain's unemployment rate dropped to 4.2 percent in August, a 19-year low, according to government

'We're not just two countries side by side. We are economically integrated.'