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Pennsylvania Attorney General Mike Fisher has filed a lawsuit against Allstate Insurance, charging t

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The New Year will ring in the start of a joint marketing effort between Eurokai AG, Hamburg's No. 2

The Overseas Private Investment Corp. published a notice in Thursday's Federal Register of proposed

As part of any plan to reform the International Monetary Fund, the lending institution should farm o

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

Germany's fast-growing postal system, Deutsche Post AG, intends to put its stamp on the internationa

Irish Life PLC, Ireland's largest life insurer, has agreed to acquire Irish Permanent PLC, the top m

India will cap both direct foreign and domestic equity in insurance joint ventures at 26 percent, ac

Aetna Inc. is buying the health-care business of Prudential Insurance Company of America for $1 bill

Latin America will suffer more than other regions from the current global economic slowdown, with gr

It took six years and a political dispute with China, but the next generation of container terminals

Greenbrier Cos. has won a new order for 1,000 double-stack intermodal railcars worth $50 million fro

The new Internet Web sites that international shipping lines will create next year to present their

Britain's train operators, including U.S.-owned English, Welsh & Scottish Railways, can expect to pa

Federal Maritime Commission officials have held off on sanctions aimed at Brazilian shipping, opting

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Air bags designed to deploy less forcefully appear to be protecting adults, too, according to govern

President Clinton favors strengthening the Social Security program's finances through more profitabl

BankAmerica Corp. said it planned to sell its retail businesses in India, Singapore and Taiwan as pa

se of the Internet in China is booming, and the government is moving rapidly to keep up.The

Ocean Logistics Corp., in conjunction with Griffin Industries Inc., will provide the services of the

Steel importers have persuaded an array of U.S. manufacturers and other businesses to sign a letter

Jordan and Egypt Thursday signed accords expected to lead to the creation of a free-trade zone betwe

Bigger may be better, but even really big is no longer good enough in the oil industry.After

The European Commission Thursday proposed a ban on the use of four antibiotics in animal feeding stu

752 (Dec. 10, 1998) Previous day - 762The Baltic Exchange in London on Tuesdays and Thursday

Key movements in 20-foot ocean container unitsSept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May

Royal Dutch/Shell has quietly dropped plans to build a controversial gas pipeline across Iran, endin

A Florida lawyer filed a class-action suit on behalf of Pan Am Corp. equity investors, alleging Pan

Airborne Freight Corp., which operates under the trade name Airborne Express, has agreed to acquire

Citigroup Inc. on Wednesday formally put its commodities trading unit, Phibro Inc., on the auction b

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 191.39 off 0.99

Meadowbrook Insurance Group Inc. has opened a Louisville, Ky., office to specialize in workers compe

Marvin Zonis, a professor of business administration at the Graduate Business School at the Universi

Ericsson said it signed a contract, worth $160 million, with Guangxi Post and Telecommunications Adm

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