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After fierce internal debate, the Clinton administration decided this week to stay out of a court fi

The Belgian Parliament is due to give a green light today to a law opening up a third of the country

The Inter-American Development Bank will approve a comprehensive $4.5 billion aid package for Brazil

The takeover bid aimed at merger partners Societe Generale and Paribas was called rash and hostile b

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Flights on major Asia-Pacific routes will be limited to one-third of volume from the evening of Dec.

Canadian Pacific Railway will pay the Canadian Wheat Board 15 million Canadian dollars (US$9.9 milli

Sea-Land Service Inc. will make its last sailing on the Atlantic between Northern Europe and Montrea

Fire broke out as an Air France 747-200 freighter landed at the airport here last week, engulfing th

Mar. 8, 1999U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

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China Ocean Shipping Co. has ordered five container ships from a shipyard in China.The conta

Two leading health care insurers, charged with violating Washington state's insurance law regarding

Bill Williams Agency Inc. of St. Petersburg became part of Poe & Brown Inc. on March 1.Bill

Georgia's President Eduard Shevardnadze said the Japanese government promised to apply trade insuran

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he U.S. Department of Transportation has proposed a compromise standard for the technology governing

As the deadline for its revamped rehabilitation plan nears, Philippine Airlines says it's expecting

Natural gas, an abundant commodity in parts of the former Soviet Union and North Africa, will come t

Tuesday Mar. 9, 1999Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

A bipartisan group of 12 midwestern senators Monday warned against any retreat from the present hard

Despite a slowdown in the final quarter, Germany's exports to the United States grew at a faster rat

A pair of key senators have unveiled a bipartisan plan to make federal crop insurance more affordabl

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For a second time, the Crowley Maritime tractor tug Sea Victory early Monday pulled the bow section

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

A federal agency has filed suit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. accusing the giant retail chain of disa

The glut of imported steel that rocked Great Lakes shippers and carriers late in the 1998 shipping s

Many of Florida's title insurers say a proposed 9 percent cut in rates will be offset by an increase

Raymond Kelly says he has made a concerted effort to get along with the trade community since taking

'Automation is our No. 1 issue. Somehow it never seems to go away.'

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Officials from Airborne Express and Teamsters Local 705 in Chicago expressed optimism as they return

China Peregrine Food Corp. will introduce a line of Looney Tunes beverage products in China under a

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

Insurance Services Office Inc. opened a consulting practice in its office here to serve insurers, ri

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