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Cattle farmers hope to carve out a niche among shoppers with a marketing program that helps them bee

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

As of November 19, 1998Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained fro

PRUDENTIAL INSURANCEEd Rafter was appointed president and chief executive of Prudential Prop

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964 (November 19, 1998) Previous day - 965The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Pilots Agree, the union representing towboat pilots and captains at 98 companies on inland waterways

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A revised market access offer put forward by Saudi Arabia to the World Trade Organization has drawn

Keelung, Taiwan's main northern port, acknowledging that it's lagging in development, is embarking o

France's Groupe Schneider will spend $15 million to build a plant in Monterrey, Mexico, that will em

The European Union's executive agency has banned the export of beef and cattle from Portugal.

The St. Paul Cos. plans to cut another 400 to 600 jobs next year because of falling profit in commer

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health have found that physicians who work as medi

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The corporate news here looks good in contrast to the dark days of late 1997.Out of 37 Thai

The European Commission has moved to make it easier for consumers and companies to do business over

Mexico's economy grew a robust 5 percent in the third quarter vs. a year ago, according to governmen

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Four container ships waylaid by a massive October storm in the northern Pacific are repaired and bac

P&O Nedlloyd Container Line's operating profit increased by 20 percent in the third quarter of this

Laying the foundation for an injection of public funds, Fuji Bank plans a major restructuring that h

For centuries, this grand city on the Danube was the center of a vast empire, with Viennese commerce

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

FUTURES - November 18, 1998 OPEN INTEREST AND SALES - November 17, 1998All life-of

The administration is working on changes to the shipping tax portion of its maligned harbor maintena

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is thinking of scaling back restrictions on wood packaging from H

Federal Express Corp.'s top executive, in an angry e-mail, told company pilots that their strike thr

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Mexico wants the North American Free Trade Agreement's commission of three trade chiefs to try to re

Japan is struggling with an economic crisis but its wine imports are soaring, making it one of the t

'The key problem remains macro. It's not trade. It's reflation of the Asian Economy. Japan isabsolut

Steelmakers in Brazil are not selling products to the U.S. market at unfairly low prices, and a U.S.

China formally instituted an insurance supervisory agency Wednesday, the last big step in its reorga

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

Bangladesh is taking steps to end recurrent nationwide strikes that have been damaging to the econom

Industry and government officials Thursday endorsed a modified version of Transportation Secretary R