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KEMPER TO ACQUIRECOMP INSURER EAGLELONG GROVE, Ill. - Kemper Insurance Cos. has agreed to pu

HARTFORD FINANCIALPOSTS 29 PERCENT RISE IN PROFITHARTFORD, Conn. - Hartford Financial Servic

The Port of Charleston, S.C., leaped past Oakland, Calif., and inched ahead of Seattle to become the

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BRAZIL LOWERS RICECROP PROJECTIONSSAO PAULO - After excessive rain and flood damage, the for

Friday May 1, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing t

Malaysia has opened its largest express gateway in the northwestern high-tech zone of Penang, an are

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

The United States may be slapping Turkey with new limits on its underwear exports barely a month aft

The earnings recovery for Japanese life insurers will be delayed by prolonged negative investment sp

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One crewman is feared dead and two were injured in the collision of a North Korean freighter and a C

Pakistan assured European shipping companies that there won't be any discrimination in the way taxes

Memo to shippers, air freight forwarders and airline cargo executives: Trade in those beepers you ga

The trucking industry has a lot at stake in the pending renewal of U.S. highway legislation. But one

Optimism surrounding Europe's planned economic and monetary union carried the Deutsche mark higher l

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HOECHST OPENSNEW JERSEY DRUG UNITBRIDGEWATER, N.J. - Hoechst Marion Roussel, the pharmaceuti

The lengthy battle between U.S. utilities PacifiCorp and Texas Utilities Co. for British power compa

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1,001 (May 1, 1998) Previous day - 1,004The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

Crowley Maritime Services will tow the historic World War II battleship USS Missouri from Bremerton,

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The timetable for House action on the ocean shipping deregulation bill will depend on a meeting betw

Footwear imports are usually shipped by ocean vessel, with air freight normally reserved for samples

Travelers Indemnity Co. has lost its appeal against an award for $26.46 million for bad faith in a C

Lagging behind its South American neighbors, Chile expects to hand over to the private-sector termin

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907 (April 30, 1998) Previous day - 900The Baltic Exchange in London on Tuesdays and Thursda

International Petroleum ExchangeApril 29, 1998 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Resting in a provincial park and waiting on rented lots at Oakville, Ontario, sit 11,000 Ford pickup

The European Union is poised to remove the remaining obstacle to a smooth 11-nation launch of its si

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The World Trade Organization's chief asked major economic powers to open their markets to exports fr

'I'm a little disappointed, but I am not surprised Customs is taking this position. They woke up and

April 30, 1998Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

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The Surface Transportation Board Wednesday launched a review of rail rate policy to determine whethe

CSX Transportation Inc. has hired four more senior managers at Conrail Inc. in anticipation of CSX's

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