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Grupo Tribasa will make its initial payment today on the southeast railroad, the third and final pie

Recently introduced federal legislation will provide companies that disclose Year 2000 remediation e

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ONGOINGAssociation of Ship Brokers and Agents. Applications for home study course, the ''Bas

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

As of August 17, 1998Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from

Aug. 17, 1998RESELLER RACK UNLEADED MID- PREMIUM-UNLE

Current Textile Quotas:Where the average recent utilization rate indicates full quota utiliz

United Parcel Service posted second-quarter earnings of $458 million, up 34.7 percent from the $340

The new manager of 33 formerly government-run airports in Argentina has presented a long-awaited and

Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York (MONY) has announced that its board of trustees adopted the co

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Oct. 3, 1997 - Aug. 17, 1998 (a graph)*

Aug. 14, 1998U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

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The Federal Maritime Commission's investigation of China's container shipping policies has given new

Indonesia's financially strapped flag carrier Garuda has been allowed to cut short long-term aircraf

China is hinting at further relaxation in its legal sector, a move that would permit overseas firms

The following fuel oil prices are for the week ending Aug. 10, 1998 as supplied by the bunker fuel d

Thailand's long-becalmed project to create a merchant marine hit another sandbar when shipowners cal

784 (August 17, 1998) Previous day - 783The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

Fine Air intends to do some cherry-picking when it takes over Southern Air Transport for an undisclo

Visitors to the Port of Los Angeles will notice a large land mass rising slowly out of the water in

'It (imported oil) is certainly bigger than anything contributed by Asia.'

Monday Aug. 17, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

COMPANY PERFORMANCEWEEKLYFRIDAY'S PERCENTAGE P/E 52-WEEK 52-WEEKS

August 14: 783

Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Monday that he is optimistic East Asian countrie

Lasers decidedly outpaced winners last week in The Journal of Commerce Transportation Index, with Fl

John J. McMullen Associates Inc. was purchased by the management and a newly formed employee stock o

NJ INSURANCE REGULATORRESIGNS FOR SPORTS POSTTRENTON, N.J. - Elizabeth E. Randall has resign

Aug. 17, 1998Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

AMERICAN AIRLINES ORDERS15 BOEING 777SAmerican Airlines has ordered 15 more Boeing 777 aircr

The Far Eastern Freight Conference, a rate-setting group of 17 ship lines, is making a desperate bid

After weeks of financial turmoil, Russia sharply devalued the shaky national currency Monday in a mo

Gregory D. Storey will become the new editorial director of The Journal of Commerce, effective Aug.

PHILIPPINE CAR OUTPUTSLIDES ON SLOW DEMANDMANILA - Car manufacturing in the Philippines plun

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 202.63 off 0.18 wh

Cuba is considering closing a large number of its 156 sugar refineries, at least temporarily, the we

RAIL UNION ENDSSTRIKE AGAINST CONRAILPHILADELPHIA - Service has returned to normal on Conrai