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

The strong February employment report released Friday swept away any chance of an easing of Federal

A multimillion-dollar investment in Mexican rail operations pushed Transportacion Maritima Mexicana,

1102 (March 6, 1998) Previous day - 1104The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

US BUSINESSMEN MEETTOP CUBAN OFFICIALSCANCUN, Mexico - Despite a ban on almost all trade wit

Bolivia is the poorest country in South America. But the nation's officials hope that its new status

March 5, 1998U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

International Petroleum ExchangeMarch 5, 1998 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

U.S. commodity exports in 1998 will be hurt by the economic crisis that grips Asia.Even thou

COLUMBUS LINE SERVICESHIFTS TERMINALS IN LALOS ANGELES - Columbus Line's West Coast Americas

The out-of-court settlement of a rate-setting case will delay a final court ruling on whether ocean

Developing nations fear that unless rich countries redouble their efforts to narrow the technology g

Breaking sharply from the era when communist bureaucrats ruled supreme, China's legislature began de

Hoping to persuade a reluctant Congress, President Clinton is using his bully pulpit in an effort to

METLIFE HAD RECORDEARNINGS IN 1997NEW YORK - Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. had 1997 consol

Friday March 6, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

Under cover of the deep darkness before dawn, Greenpeace activists in a speedboat with no lights pul

Recent rail industry events have set the stage for some potentially ugly collisions of competing int

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker Rate Schedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Sched

On the wall in Gus Owen's office at the Surface Transportation Board are photographs of him shaking

* Noon - The U.S. dollar was sharply higher against the Deutsche mark at midday Thursday, surging on

Thursday March 5, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

PANAMA CANAL DRAFTREDUCTIONS ANNOUNCEDPANAMA CITY - The Panama Canal Commission said the wat

United Parcel Service, just months after a labor strike dealt a blow to its ground operations, is be

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

1104 (March 5, 1998) Previous day - 1103The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

844 (March 5, 1998) Previous day - 828The Baltic Exchange in London on Tuesdays and Thursday

Premier Li Peng on Thursday targeted 8.0 percent economic growth this year despite financial turmoil

Rich food-producing nations aimed to put a mounting stack of trade disputes to one side on Thursday

Turkmenistan has announced plans to swap more than 100 million barrels of oil a year with Iran in th

Only table.

The mayor of Los Angeles today will wrap up an Asian tour during which transportation and its role i

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 227.41 off 0.05

The Interior Department has compiled new evidence of textile trade fraud, religious persecution and

American commercial shipbuilders are blowing the whistle on a Navy aid program they say violates com

March 5, 1998RESELLER RACK UNLEADED MID- PREMIUM-UNLE

International Petroleum ExchangeMarch 4, 1998 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

NATURAL GAS CLEARINGHOUSENatural Gas Clearinghouse - Posted prices for March 1998 (see Note

Like quartermasters preparing for a campaign, CSX Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. are marshaling pe