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Northwest Airlines Corp., which has vowed to pursue its alliance with Continental Airlines Inc. desp

The following tradeleads appear exclusively in print in The Journal of Commerce. The leads are curre

A disgruntled Air China pilot hijacked his own jet - with 104 people aboard - to Taiwan on Wednesday

U.S. crude oil inventories rose nearly 8 million barrels in the week ended Oct. 23, as compared with

Texaco Inc. has begun drilling the first of a proposed four exploratory wells for coalbed methane in

Wednesday Oct. 28, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

Rains from Hurricane Mitch will damage the equivalent of 75,000 60-kilogram bags of ripening coffee

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Oct. 27, 1998U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Oct. 28, 1998No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 21

New York Mercantile Exchange - October 27, 1998Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High

International Petroleum ExchangeOctober 27, 1998 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Oct. 28, 1998RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unle

October 28, 1998Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represe

As of Oct. 28, 1998Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 202.94 off 1.82 w

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

FUTURES - October 27, 1998 OPEN INTEREST AND SALES - October 26, 1998All life-of-

V Ships of Monaco and Britain-based Celtic Marine merged Wednesday, creating the world's largest shi

Starting the first of the new year, the Lloyd's of London trade credit insurance market will have a

River freight rates for grain shipped by barge to the Gulf of Mexico have more than doubled beyond t

Kansas Insurance Commissioner Kathleen Sebelius, an avowed champion of consumers, is defending her r

A new Fraud Examination Unit has been formed within the Insurance Department.The unit will b

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals recently has found school districts may be held liable for fai

Equitable InsuranceJohn A. Caroselli has been promoted to executive vice president, corporat

Moody's Investors Service has placed eight Japanese life insurance companies under review for possib

Liberty Mutual Group said its subsidiary Liberty International has acquired a controlling interest i

The Insurance Bureau of Canada has said the country needs more banks in the financial services secto

The death rate on the nation's highways fell to a record low in 1997 - 1.6 deaths per 100 million mi

Anglo-Norwegian engineering and construction giant Kvaerner ASA said Wednesday it named Kjell Almsko

Oct. 28, 1998Baltic international Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High

The dry cargo and tanker fixtures listed herewith and compiled in London and New York, includethe fo

959 (October 28, 1998) Previous day - 966The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

In the midst of bulging warehouses, construction has begun on an American-financed logistics park to

Russia's Minister of Trade Georgi Gabounia signalled here Monday his country will make a market acce

Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah asked Parliament to cooperate in efforts to bolster the

Dutch financial services company ING Group said Tuesday that more jobs may be shed at its Barings un

The World Bank is generally happy with the pace of privatization in Tanzania in spite of being behin

French construction and communications group Bouygues said it will help build two rail tunnels in Ho

President Andres Pastrana snuffed out Colombia's bitter 21-day-old public sector strike Tuesday amid