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Touching off a firestorm of controversy, a consumer advocate this week questioned the solvency of th

An investment group led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and including five insurance companies has agreed

House Republican leaders, sharply divided over whether to provide funds to recapitalize the Internat

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,500-$1,600 per ton lo

July 21, 1998Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

The big neighbor to the north keeps making decisions to serve its own economic interests, instead of

The United States would withdraw support from the International Atomic Energy Agency under sanctions

Maersk Line and Sea-Land Service Inc. are in talks to create a container terminal at the rapidly exp

Utility vehicles, promoted to potential buyers as strong and able to climb mountains, have very weak

July 21, 1998U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

International Petroleum ExchangeJuly 21, 1998 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Sept. 5, 1997 - July 22, 1998 (a graph)*

Longshoremen Wednesday morning shut down the Port of Oakland, Calif., in a dispute with waterfront e

Initial reports were that teen-age America was in a panic. It all started as soon as Time Magazine's

July 22, 1998RESELLER RACK UNLEADED MID- PREMIUM-UNLE

Charlie Seely, owner of a small independent oil production company in Texas, figures he's losing $3

Global air cargo traffic, feeling the bite of Asia's economic crisis, increased just 1.7 percent in

The Subic Bay free-port and industrial zone now has two chief executives, with the ''official'' one

847 (July 22, 1998) Previous day - 850The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lon

Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May97 97 97 97 97

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

* Noon Wednesday - The U.S. dollar surged against the yen, as the market realized its favorite candi

U.S. crude oil inventories rose almost 7 million barrels in the week ended July 17, as compared with

U.S. importers can breathe a little easier now when they import hundreds of millions of dollars of s

FIAT WINS POLISH PACTTO PROVIDE FAST TRAINSMILAN - Fiat Ferroviaria, a unit of Italian indus

Air safety investigators said Tuesday the transportation of undeclared hazardous materials on airpla

State Farm began selling homeowners insurance through InsWeb, the first online marketplace to offer

New York Mercantile Exchange - July 21, 1998PREV. LIFE OF CONTR. OPENOPEN HIGH

JAPANESE AIRLINE BEGINSSERVICE TO CHINESE ZONEXIAMEN, China - A Japan Air Transportation Co.

Singapore has shipped a prefabricated arms factory to Myanmar and the junta there is already produci

Cargo carrier Arrow Air paid $5 million in penalties Tuesday for selling uninspected jet parts and c

July 22, 1998Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

ALLSTATE'S PROFIT SOARED37.6 PERCENT IN 2ND QUARTERNORTHBROOK, Ill. - Second-quarter consoli

Major U.S. developers like Bechtel Enterprises and Fluor Daniel are carrying the U.S. flag into the

Dubbed the ''Port of Least Resistance'' because of spotty control over security, Port Everglades now

A water ferry to shuttle cargo and passengers to and from San Francisco International Airport seems

On this side of the Atlantic, the topic of textile transshipments doesn't make tempers flare and hyp

Hong Kong customs appointed the local unit of Swiss-based Societe General de Surveillance to handle

Allstate Insurance Co. filed a lawsuit Tuesday against two people and a Philadelphia firm seeking mo

BEAUMONT PORT'S VOLUMEUP 44 PERCENT IN 1ST QUARTERBEAUMONT, Texas - Cargo volume at the Port