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

Yahagi Iron Co., a steel product company, filed for bankruptcy protection at the Nagoya District Cou

South Korea's two ailing guarantee insurers, Korea Guarantee Insurance Co. and Hankuk Fidelity & Sur

Once upon a time Lloyd's of London was the do-all and end-all of the energy insurance business, able

Emery Worldwide reached an agreement to provide logistics services to the Royal Australian Air Force

ANDERSEN CONSULTINGNEW YORK - Greg Owens was named managing partner of the firm's global sup

Southwest Airlines' pilots have agreed by an overwhelming majority to keep a 10-year salary agreemen

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

The U.S. government announced it will ban wood-packaged imports from China beginning Dec. 17, firing

Petroleum Minister V.K. Ramamurthy said the government will offer contracts for the exploration of 4

A shrinking client pool caused by oil industry mergers and rock-bottom prices are plaguing energy in

Now that implementation of the International Safety Management code has begun, debate has arisen as

International Petroleum ExchangeSeptember 17, 1998 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Four years after the government sold controlling interest in its power company to a U.S. firm, Grena

British Aerospace PLC announced a 24 percent jump in first-half profit and said record orders should

Southwest Airlines Co. will add new nonstop service from Baltimore/Washington to Phoenix and to San

Cargo volume and freight rates are sinking in the U.S.-Australia trade, but this is not deterring ag

In his first meeting with top field officers from across the country, new Customs Commissioner Raymo

Pakistan is seeking a new loan package of around $4.5 billion from the International Monetary Fund t

'There is no doubt that the system Customs has now has reached its design limitations.'

Canadian officials on a market promotion trip to South America reached a deal to ease Canadian pork

A leading activist against garment industry ''sweatshops'' has accused U.S. luxury clothing company

The board of directors of American International Group Inc. Thursday declared a quarterly cash divid

The International Association of Classification Societies and its member societies have taken forcef

Ecuador's new government has proposed reforms to the country's oil industry that could double oil ou

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 201.83 off 0.98

New York Mercantile Exchange - September 17, 1998Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High

Arco subsidiary Arco China Inc. and Texaco Inc. unit Texaco China BV have entered into a petroleum c

Hamburg's main port operator, trying to strengthen its dominance in container transshipments to the

SEPTEMBERY2K Issues and the Maritime Industry. Sept. 22. Wilmington, N.C. Meeting to explore

The yen strengthened from 136 to the dollar to 132 last Thursday as Japan's politicians came one ste

New Jersey Republican Gov. Christine Todd Whitman will spend the week in Mexico, leading a trade mis

Insurance superintendent Neil D. Levin said Thursday that six of the largest automobile insurance wr

A federal court ruled that insurers must defend a vinyl mini-blind manufacturer facing nationwide cl

Two direct and indirect subsidiaries of Aon Corp., Chicago, have joined forces to offer a range of s

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A port services consortium at the Port of Vancouver, British Columbia, has improperly transferred sa

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