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Would you ask the company that built your premises to run your business for you? In a way, that's

ACE LTD. REPORTS RISEIN QUARTERLY EARNINGSHAMILTON, Bermuda - ACE Ltd. reported net income f

Work on building a new container terminal at the Port of Colombo will begin next year in what is bil

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Two years after the bankruptcy of Germany's biggest shipbuilder, Bremer Vulkan Verbund AG, court-app

* Noon Monday - The U.S. dollar maintained early gains against the yen in midday trading Monday on w

'We are in the mood for a regional focus because we cannot advance elsewhere. We can't just do nothi

Vietnam's air cargo industry has run into turbulence just as it was beginning to take off.Th

AMERICAN READIES BOEINGORDER TO REPLACE DC-10SDALLAS - American Airlines, searching for ways

July 27, 1998This table shows the vessels scheduled to call at U.S. coal terminals and the e

Truckers say they're getting a bum rapIndependent truckers say law enforcement agencies are

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Sept. 12, 1997 - July 27, 1998 (a graph)

As of July 27, 1998Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd., pressured by weak crude oil prices, was forced Friday to pump ou

Spanish gas group Gas Natural posted a net profit of 29.9 billion pesetas ($21 million) for the firs

With strike threats in the air and a public stock sale expected in the near future, Overnite Transpo

The following fuel oil prices are for the week ending July 22, 1998 as supplied by the bunker fuel d

Supporters of a new Internet standard known as eXtensible Markup Language (XML) claim that it could

An increasingly alarmed business community at the Subic Bay free port appealed to the government and

CURRENT TEXTILE QUOTAS:Where the average recent utilization rate indicates full quota utiliz

SWISS RE BUYSLIFE RE CORP.ZURICH, Switzerland - Swiss Reinsurance Co. has reached an agreeme

Individual Names will not disappear from Lloyd's, because it would be legally impossible for the 300

July 24, 1998Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

International Petroleum ExchangeJuly 24, 1998 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Monday July 27, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

CONSORTIUM IS PICKEDTO RUN EUROPORT VATRYLONDON - A consortium including the Montreal Airpor

The world's largest producer of maritime containers is churning out too many, Chinese officials ackn

Union Pacific Railroad is pulling out all the stops in its effort to convince the Surface Transporta

U.S. firms doing business in Latin America are likely to face higher ocean shipping bills as ocean c

The South Korean economy will grow slightly next year, thanks to stronger domestic consumption, but

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

Offers to buy* EQUIPMENT FOR MANUFACTURING (POTATO, ETC.) CHIPS. Need full processin

Importers and developing countries that make textiles and apparel for American consumers are satisfi

Massachusetts-based property/casualty insurers see a legislative conference committee as their last

German insurer Gerling AG last week said it plans to acquire New York-based Constitution Reinsurance

July 27, 1998Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

The Indian government's effort to entice foreign investment to boost the capacity of its ports is ki

International airports this year plan to invest nearly $13 billion in new infrastructure to keep pac

Philippine Airlines said Monday it expects operations to return to normal almost immediately after t