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A Massachusetts lawmaker said he may file new legislation to halt public investment in companies doi

Railroad workers in six European Union countries plan to walk off the job today to protest plans to

A church group harshly critical of Talisman Energy Inc. and its Sudan oil project has urged Canada's

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The JOC calendar is a detailed listing of upcoming events in transportation and logistics, regulatio

The following business missions are scheduled for the coming months.The Journal of Commerce

Like the famous definition of pornography, Customs may not be able to define ''reasonable care'' bu

TradeCard, an electronic system that can complete an international transaction in a matter of minute

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., the second-largest U.S. life insurer, will pay $25 million to settl

'Japan is just digging itself a deeper and deeper hole. Sooner or later, this blows up on them.'

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Jan. 16 - Nov. 20, 1998 (a graph)* Annua

wIn his first appearance before the nation's largest group of textile and apparel importers, Customs

Penske Truck Leasing has entered into an agreement to buy the assets of Young Nationalease Inc., a t

Less than a week after the North Atlantic conference announced plans to increase freight rates next

Friday Nov. 20, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

An assortment of infrastructure concessions will be bid out next year in Chile. The government plans

John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. is the latest in the field to try to crack the market in Viet

A Russian nuclear icebreaker was unable to break through heavy ice in the Far East, but shipments to

U.S. imports of textiles and apparel increased by only 9.5 percent in September, breaking a 23-month

The Massachusetts Port Authority has appointed Michael Leone director of the Port of Boston followin

The number of carriers opposing the proposed merger of Canadian National Railway Co. and Illinois Ce

Christmas has come five weeks early for express shippers as the FedEx Pilots Association, representi

Nov. 19, 1998U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Union Pacific Railroad, having met its intermodal commitments during the 1998 peak shipping season,

New trade statistics show a drop in Brazilian exports even as the government strives to double them.

When the Federal Reserve cut rates last Tuesday, it signaled that the trim would likely be the las

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 200.26 off 0.79

The following trade leads appear exclusively in print in The Journal of Commerce. The leads are curr

Old Guard Group Inc. had a net loss for the third quarter of 1998 of $636,000, compared with net inc

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

A longshoreman's injury discrimination lawsuit can't be thrown out just because he didn't follow vag

The heavy-truck industry posted record October deliveries as it cruised toward an all-time high in a

Ryder Transportation Services has signed a full-service lease contract with Sherwood Food Distributo

The United Arab Emirates signed a $3.2 billion deal with France's Dassault Aviation for new warplane

The regulatory role of the state in the economy will increase, Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primak

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

Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., said he is optimistic that a fast-track trade bill will pass Congress d

HCC Insurance Holdings Inc.'s net earnings for the third quarter of 1998 increased to $22.1 million

MONY Life Insurance, a subsidiary of MONY Group Inc., plans to buy US Financial Life Insurance, an O

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