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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

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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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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

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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

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AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACTUARIESRichard C. Lawson, vice president for federal affairs of the Am

Tanzania is threatened with serious famine in 1999, President Benjamin Mkapa told the nation in a Ne

The Port of Shanghai, China's largest, handled the equivalent of 3.06 million 20-foot containers in

As much as ocean carriers have pitched in to thwart the drug trade and other illicit traffic, it's s

To our readers:Because of technical problems in retrieving financial data, The Journal of Co

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

Certification standards for aircraft flying in icing conditions haven't changed in the wake of the J

Jan. 4, 1999This table shows the vessels scheduled to call at U.S. coal terminals and the es

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