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Hungary's unemployment rate fell, to 9.0 percent in August from 9.2 percent in July, due to continue

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At 73, John Bowers is still molding the International Longshoremen's Association in his own image. A

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Shell Europe Oil Products, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch/Shell, has signed an agreement in principle w

Union Pacific Railroad said it is anticipating a smooth transition for its information systems that

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Canadian Airlines International, overcoming a steep drop in revenue from its Japanese routes, regist

Confirming in voice what the international trade community in Mexico intuitively knows, Mexican Pres

The Brazilian government has postponed for two months the sale of Fepasa, the final and most-prized

The chances of Northwest Airlines recovering quickly from the pilots strike that has grounded all 1,

Sept. 3, 1998Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High

The pace of economic decline in most Asian countries is slowing, particularly in South Korea and Tha

Ship fixtures are a product of Knight-Ridder Financial, TNT, the industry's only reliable source of

Tungsten makes steel tougher, car engines heat-resistant, golf clubs heftier and light bulbs lumines

Thursday Sept. 3, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

No British firm has pulled out of the country's trade mission to Russia next week despite the crisis

The first and arguably most difficult of nine negotiating committees trying to forge a hemispheric f

Mexican Finance Minister Jose Angel Gurria met with The Journal of Commerce and a small group of oth

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The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 199.36 up 0.66

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Hapag-Lloyd is shopping again.Last May, the Hamburg-based ocean carrier placed an order with

Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance and Mitsui Marine & Fire Insurance Co. has announced they will tie up

The new Non-Aligned Movement chairman, South African President Nelson Mandela, said South Africa was

789 (September 3, 1998) Previous day - 789The Baltic Exchange in London on Tuesdays and Thur

The California Supreme Court has ruled additional penalties cannot be imposed against the state's le

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

Even before the financial crisis forced a countrywide halt to banking and commerce in Russia in Augu

The U.S. Customs Service has reported its first-ever bust of drugs hidden in a railcar in South Texa

Steelmaker Companhia Siderurgica Nacional won control of the main container terminal at Brazil's Por

The Year 2000 crisis - the computer problems that await the world when the ball drops in Times Squar

A judge approved a $5.3 million settlement in a lawsuit that accused Nationwide Insurance Co. of dis

Allstate Life Insurance Co. has completed the transaction to reinsure and administer all of the exis

More than 100 people were injured on Thursday in clashes between feuding workers at Bangladesh's mai

Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway, the nation's largest grain-hauling railroad, is expanding