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New York Mercantile Exchange - September 3, 1998Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High L

Devastating floods currently engulfing large portions of Bangladesh have caused an estimated direct

Sept. 3, 1998U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Falling production and shrinking supplies have sent U.S. butter prices to record heights in recent w

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

The Senate Banking Committee delayed consideration of a financial services modernization bill last w

The energy-short Philippines could be sitting on a monster natural gas reservoir. Getting at it, how

Hurricane Earl, which swept through the Gulf of Mexico last week, was a potent reminder of nature's

NATURAL GAS CLEARINGHOUSENatural Gas Clearinghouse - Posted prices for September 1998 (see N

Hurricane Bonnie caused an estimated $360 million in damage to insured property in three states, acc

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Flynn Associates Insurance Marketing Inc. of Encino, Calif.,

To some air cargo carriers and forwarders, the peak season getting under way now promises to be like

Zurich Group is considering a proposal for the sale of Zurich Reinsurance (London) to a group of inv

Friday Sept. 4, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

The Asian crisis is forcing air cargo carriers who serve Latin America to improve their cargo automa

For the first time in the eight-year history of Russia's commercial insurance industry, premium reve

After 300 years, Lloyd's Names are here to stay.From 1994, when corporate members first were

Mention ''general average'' to marine insurers and you're not likely to get a hearty laugh, a rollin

Hong Kong will ruefully remember this year, with computer systems crashing and shipments suspended w

You don't have to be a gambler to go to Nevada these days. The guy in the seat next to you on the pl

The International Group of Protection and Indemnity (P&I) Clubs appears to have won a 14-month argum

Airlines, plagued by overcapacity on the eastbound North Atlantic cargo routes this summer, are hopi

America West Airlines, the nation's ninth-largest carrier, said difficult negotiations between the c

Canadian Air Cargo, the cargo division of Canadian Airlines, said it has responded to the Air Canada

Gerald Davies, executive vice president of marketing for Canadian National Railway, has resigned.

The Indiana Rail Road Co., which is 89 percent owned by CSX, lost a bid to have the Surface Transpor

Brazil, battered by nervous institutional investors fleeing emerging markets and increasingly lookin

Mitsui OSK Lines said it has established an agency subsidiary in Mexico City. As of Sept. 1, the uni

Rail- America Inc. has created a subsidiary, Ventura County Railroad Co.The subsidiary has s

UPS Worldwide Logistics has set up a special unit to deal with hospitals and their particular supply

Three weeks ended Aug. 29, 1998, vs. similar 1997 periodCars Cars loaded loaded<

The room had a single bed and a small window looking out onto a tarred roof. The bathroom and shower

In a major victory for shippers, the Department of Transportation has concluded that truckers should

The Surface Transportation Board found that three railroads' earnings have exceeded their cost of ca

Strengthening Rotterdam's rail connections to Central Europe, the Dutch port and its main port opera

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

Sept. 4: 827

The Federal Maritime Commission announced an expansion of its field representative program to includ

Germany's Hamburg-Sud shipping line expects its revenue to sharply increase this year and its profit

C. Bradley Mulholland, president and chief executive of Matson Navigation, was appointed an executiv