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Offers to buy* STAINLESS STEEL PLATE. Quantity: 1.6 tons of size 2 mm X 1,000 mm X 2,000 mm.

Trade ministers from 132 countries agreed Wednesday that new global talks to lower barriers to trade

An Italian insurance company with thousands of Holocaust survivors' claims unpaid since the end of W

LINCOLN NATIONAL BUYSAETNA INC. UNITNEW YORK - Aetna Inc. has agreed to sell its domestic in

IOWA REGULATORS OKPRINCIPAL'S CONVERSIONDES MOINES, Iowa - The Iowa Division of Insurance ha

Amid a rising partisan furor over suggestions the Clinton administration may have traded sensitive a

Behind the furor over missile proliferation and satellite launches in China is a little-known State

A proposed rule by the U.S. Customs Service offers U.S. and Canadian truckers unprecedented flexibil

OIL FIRMS WEIGH EFFECTOF INDONESIAN CRISISNEW YORK - Two of Indonesia's largest oil producer

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

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

* Noon Wednesday - The U.S. dollar continued to sink following news the U.S. March trade deficit wid

As of May 20, 1998Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from sup

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 218.46 off 0.81 w

May 20, 1998Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

Some express delivery companies scrambled to alter their operations Wednesday, as drivers sporting p

ROYAL & SUNALLIANCE POSTSMIXED 1ST-QUARTER RESULTSCHARLOTTE, N.C. - Royal & SunAlliance USA,

ODYSSEY RE GROUPMichael C. Watson has been named executive vice president and chief operatin

This Net trick you may have heard of. I call it the Web name bait and switch. You go out and registe

A class action suit has been filed on behalf of men who have been diagnosed as impotent against a he

Air cargo rates don't matter as much as timely, secure delivery supported by new technology such as

CP Ships said Tuesday it completed its acquisition of Ivaran Lines, its latest of several acquisitio

The National Transportation Safety Board officially determined that the deadly June 22, 1997, head-o

Dockworkers at the Port of Karachi in Pakistan ended their partial strike late Tuesday after managem

Continuing its major restructuring, Germany's Preussag AG - the new parent company of shipping giant

SHIPSSPEECH TO ADDRESSPANAMA CANAL'S FUTUREWASHINGTON - Thomas Burke, former

In keeping with its new-found vigor for assuring competitive air services, the Clinton administratio

Shippers, not air carriers, continue to be the most common violator of federal rules governing the t

When disputes erupt between longshoremen and their employers, port authorities usually remain safely

The European Commission is expected to decide within the next six weeks whether to impose hefty fine

International Petroleum ExchangeMay 19, 1998 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

May 20, 1998RESELLER RACKUNLEADED MID- PREMIUM-UNLEAD PREMI

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, July 3, 1997 - May 20, 1998 (a graph)* A

May 20, 1998No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 25.

New York Mercantile Exchange - May 19, 1998Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High L

May 19, 1998U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

Wednesday May 20, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

The future European Central Bank may take over more supervisory duties for the banking and financial

The Journal of Commerce index of industrial prices fell Tuesday to the lowest level since February 1

A report on DHL's study of business costs in Eastern Europe (Tuesday, May 19, Page 2A) noted, ''In M