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Mergers and acquisitions within the insurance industry in the first half of 1999 were fewer than in

The World Bank has approved a $44.5 million loan to support the Romanian government in its efforts t

A new deep-water container terminal at China's southeastern Port of Fuzhou is being studied by Singa

ABF Freight System Inc., one of country's largest trucking companies, is expanding its guaranteed se

British Midland is in talks on joining a global airline alliance rather than being up for sale, a so

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The publicly traded segment of China's main shipping line posted flat earnings for the year's first

China's central bank tapped U.S.-based Entrust Technologies Inc. to provide the security and verific

Spot price inflation rate smoothed, annualized *1999 High: 94.2 1999 Low: 86.7 1998

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Sri Lanka's Mercantile Merchant Bank Ltd. said it plans an alliance with U.S.-based Aetna Inc. to pr

The Philippines plans to revise the way it allocates permits for more than $2 billion a year worth o

The International Monetary Fund lifted one set of sanctions against Sudan, praising Sudanese efforts

Soft drinks and confectionery group Cadbury-Schweppes Plc and Washington-based investment firm Carly

'From logistics manager to chief executive is the new career path

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In tobacco-happy Spain, Iberia Airlines expected some whining over its new blanket ban on smoking -

Spencer Weeks, 6, and his 2-year-old sister, Ashlyn, burned to death in the cab of an 18-wheel truck

Trucking operations were returning to normal in the Pacific Northwest on Wednesday following a decis

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Up to 25 percent of the 1,900 containers carried by the Evergreen Marine vessel may have been damage

Mexico is increasing import duties on Canadian pork products from 8 percent to 20 percent, the Comme

Aug. 31, 1999U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

A group of 32 U.S. property/casualty reinsurers wrote $10.3 billion in premiums during the first hal

Britain for the first time issued quarterly gross domestic product data for Scotland on Wednesday in

South Korea's Hyundai Group expects to complete talks to sell off its money-losing affiliate Korea A

Mexico's railroads, once a symbol of emerging industrial might and the warfare of the Mexican Revolu

Sept. 1, 1999CURRENT: 1039 PREVIOUS DAY: 1038 The Baltic International Freight Futures M

Woronoco Bancorp Inc. signed a letter of intent to acquire A.J. Agan Insurance Agency Inc. Terms wer

Britain's Henlys Plc said on Wednesday it was buying Blue Bird Corp, North America's leading school

The Customs Service says it is being more careful about drilling into containers since a ruling last

About 15,000 metric tons of sugar were destroyed in a warehouse fire at the Port of Santos last week

China Airlines is cutting 68 flights in September, mostly on its lucrative Hong Kong-Taipei route, a

Austrian Airlines Aviation Group, hurt by economic fallout from the Kosovo conflict and other region

Sept. 1, 1999Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Amtrak said on Wednesday its new high-speed rail service in the Northeast, which was scheduled to be

BB&T Insurance Services Inc., a subsidiary of Branch Banking & Trust Co., will buy Kay Co., an indep

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

It should have been a routine import examination - rolls of toilet paper shipped to a U.S. paper-pro