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May 12, 1999Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

Currencies in three East European emerging markets weakened sharply on Russian President Boris Yelts

Europe's biggest airlines are at odds with most integrators and shippers over including liberalizati

U.S. crude oil inventories declined more than 2 million barrels in the week ended May 7, as compared

May 11, 1999U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

The dry cargo and tanker fixtures listed herewith and compiled in London and New York, include the f

Singapore, a regional pioneer in electronic data interchange, is touting the simpler forms of electr

The resignation of U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin on Wednesday triggered an immediate emotiona

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, June 10, 1998 - May 12, 1999 (a graph)*

Thousands of BarrelsWeek Week Week Ended Ended Ended5-7

Viking Freight Inc. has added tracking and tracing management reports to its Web site (www.vikingfre

Canadian National is spending $35 million to add 400 new flatcars to its lumber car fleet this year.

Standard and Poor's Corp. believes that insured losses caused by the tornadoes that damaged areas of

Employers are increasing their employee benefits packages in response to record low unemployment rat

New York Mercantile Exchange - May 11, 1999Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

Consistent with the growth in telecommunications cargo, the number of mobile telephone subscribers i

Malaysia is likely to make headway in its repeated call for a restructuring of the global financial

The Jacksonville Port Authority's director of international business development, Joseph Strain, was

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

Some U.S. senators are skeptical of a Clinton administration proposal tocharge importers more than $

Interpool Inc., one of the leading lessors of containers and intermodal chassis, on Wednesday report

Short-line operator Emons Transportation Group Inc. says that mergers of major railroads should help

May 12, 1999No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 20.

China's regulated oil industry may not be able to handle foreign competition should the country be a

International Petroleum ExchangeMay 11, 1999 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

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President Boris Yeltsin plunged Russia into political crisis and caused turmoil on financial markets

The decade-long decline in rates for commercial lines, particularly in medical malpractice and worke

The dominant workers compensation statistical agent has agreed to settle a 1996 copyright infringeme

A different approach to business conferences came across the Atlantic last week when Richmond Events

A group of independent oil producers will petition the U.S. International Trade Commission later thi

Chevron Corp. boasted that the production rate of a recent natural gas find places it ''in the top o

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 191.76 off 0.28 w

FUTURES - May 11, 1999 OPEN INTEREST AND SALES - May 10, 1999All life-of-contract

May 11, 1999Baltic International Freight Futures Market PREV.CLOSE HI

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

Taiwan advanced its seven-year bid to join the World Trade Organization this week with last-minute o

Messer Griesheim do Brasil Ltda. announced it won the bidding to supply, as of first-quarter 2000, t

It is often said that the mark of a good compromise is that both sides are unhappy. In Chile's late-

Western railroads are looking for intermodal business to drive their growth in the coming years, and