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Final talks are scheduled for today on the long-awaited deepening of the major channel into the Port

Strike talk at a Ford Motor Co. plant in Sao Paulo gained momentum this week as nearly 2,800 workers

PennCorp Financial Group Inc. has sold its Career Sales division and the Professional Insurance Co.

With the fish factories shuttered and the one-note economy in shambles, the Russians on these stormy

India's largest car maker, Maruti Udyog Ltd., launched a co-branded credit card on Tuesday in associ

Although Canada's hottest housing markets cooled off somewhat in the second half of 1998, most regio

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Feb. 27 - Jan. 5, 1999 (a graph)* Annual

The investment arm of the World Bank is investing $31 million in a $70 million expansion project at

As part of a careful compromise, the Clinton administration will allow some food sales to Cuba but w

Freight transportation stocks ended a disappointing year with a broad rally last week.Each o

India and Nepal on Tuesday renewed the transit treaty allowing land-locked Nepal transit facilities

American chemical giant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. is a leading candidate to buy a strategic stak

Jan. 4, 1999U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 193.82 up 2.60 whi

House Banking Chairman James Leach, R-Iowa, on Wednesday plans to introduce his new version of finan

703 (Jan. 5, 1999) Previous - 707The Baltic Exchange in London on Tuesdays and Thursdays pu

Jan. 5, 1999Baltic international Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High

Two Bangladesh associations are preparing to oust the owners of 319 apparel and knitwear factories.<

Panamanian President Ernesto Perez Balladares late Monday named economist Fernando Aramburu to head

Kazakstan will temporarily ban imports of some Russian foodstuffs to protect domestic producers hurt

President B.J. Habibie Tuesday unveiled a new state budget for Indonesia that indicates a decrease i

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New York Mercantile Exchange - Jan. 4, 1999Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

Emery Worldwide will expand its guaranteed delivery service Monday, adding cities and time frames to

A scathing report on the Department of Transportation's safety oversight at the U.S.-Mexico border r

Jan. 5, 1999Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,500-$1,600 per ton lo

Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries PLC has called off the sale of its white pigments business to

NORTH AMERICACanadian International Farm Equipment Show. Jan. 19-22. Toronto, Canada. Contac

hina is determined to stimulate consumer demand in 1999.That should be sweet music for fo

Gov. George W. Bush has selected Texas Department of Insurance associate commissioner Jose Montemayo

Standard & Poor's revised its outlook on South Korea to positive from stable, citing ''remarkable pr

Tanzania's annual underlying inflation rate decreased substantially, to 8.5 percent in October 1998

The Asian longhorned beetle has not interfered with commerce on the West Coast. At least so far.

Tension is building between ocean lines and truckers at the Port of New York and New Jersey as motor

Asia basked in the same cheery glow during the holidays as the rest of the world, but the reverie

Overnite Transportation Co. said it is moving toward a corporate goal of providing full-state covera

Schiphol Airport will spend 1 billion guilders ($532 million) on renovations this year to accommodat

As Berlin's skyscrapers rise ever higher, ambitious Poles are massing construction and transportatio

China projected a cut of 1.35 billion metric tons of coal output and exports of 35 million tons in 1