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The New York Mercantile Exchange plans to launch its proposed aluminum futures and options contract

Life insurer Old Mutual has said that policyholders would receive a minimum of 200 shares each regar

Under pressure from domestic industry, the Indian government is responding rapidly to complaints of

Centris Group Inc. has rejected the unsolicited Jan. 11, 1999, bid from HCC Insurance Holdings Inc.

Brazil's pensioners and housewives, desperate to avoid a return to the dark days of hyperinflation,

Pepsico bought a Russian bottling plant from its largest bottler, Whitman Corp., Pepsi said.

681 (Jan. 26, 1999) Previous - 682The Baltic Exchange in London on Tuesdays and Thursdays p

In a move bound to aggravate trade relations between two Latin American partners, Italian carmaker F

A bulk-handling terminal sitting on nearly 300 acres of land at Thunder Bay, Ontario, is up for sale

The government has started mailing exporters refunds of the now-unconstitutional harbor maintenance

Rail industry performance appears to be improving, as measured by weekly reports made public by eigh

Thursday Jan. 28, 1999Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

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The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 187.49 off 0.11

As of Jan 28, 1999Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from sup

Inland shipping is Europe's forgotten transport mode. It doesn't attract political support like the

The sharp increase in container ship chartering threatens to destabilize the liner shipping market a

Rotterdam's port authority is demanding that all ships using its facilities next January be Year 200

West Coast ports experienced stronger-than-anticipated growth in container volume in December, setti

Like gooey black jellyfish, thousands of tar balls are drifting toward the beaches along San Juan's

Jan. 27, 1999U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

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Russia's auto manufacturers are increasing production, as well as prices, as beneficial aspects of l

European Farm Commissioner Franz Fischler said the European Union has the right to have its own inte

Like the family that bickers but always comes together when threatened, Customs and the trade com

Ford Motor Co. reached an agreement with AB Volvo to buy its worldwide passenger vehicle business, V

Ray Bourhis, California's court-appointed insurance watchdog, is at loggerheads with the state Insur

Santos, Brazil, the busiest port in Latin America, registered modest growth last year.Santos

Pakistan's textile industry intends to fight a U.S. decision to limit imports of combed cotton yarn.

Russia will lower duties by 25 percent for some food products delivered from developing and lesser-d

Greece's economy is on schedule for joining the euro on the first day of 2001, thanks to declining i

Record unemployment amid Hong Kong's worst-ever recession represents a time bomb that could explode

Lately, it seems half the world is going back to school on the Web. What with crash courses in Mand

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Mar. 20 - Jan. 28, 1999 (a graph)* Annua

U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Vernon Weaver said Thursday that some ''rays of hope'' were di

It's the rumor that never dies: Sea-Land Service Inc., the oldest company in the container shipping

The Maritime Administration said Thursday it may rewrite and update some of the rules governing the

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