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The United States rejected a proposed deal protecting international investment, a decision that may

IMF: CURRENCY CONTROLSCOULD HARM INDONESIAWASHINGTON - International Monetary Fund Managing

Risk funding, such as insurance, is no substitute for risk mitigation, according to William J. Kelly

As the Port of New York and New Jersey labors to persuade Sea-Land Service Inc. not to take its busi

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The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 231.66 up 0.03 w

Raphael Che, president of Gateway Container International Ltd., has a groundbreaking idea for resolv

FEBRUARYSociety of Maritime Arbitrators Inc. Feb. 18. New York. Luncheon. Stewart Wade, vice

APL Ltd. and Transportacion Maritima Mexicana's joint venture designed to speed up traffic through t

A unit of the Atlanta-based United Parcel Service of America Inc. has announced a joint venture with

You're an American businesswoman. You've faxed a carefully worded proposal for a multimillion-dollar

Central government leaders may trumpet efforts to increase Beijing Capital Airport's capacity, but a

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Feb. 13, 1998U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

GERMAN CHEMICAL SECTORTO RELY ON FOREIGN SALESFRANKFURT - The business situation in Germany'

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Unable to make much progress on structuring negotiations for hemisphere-wide free trade, trade offic

The money held by Lloyd's of London in its new Central Fund will stay as a policyholder's stopgap, i

When Gary Palmer and four colleagues at Web Press Corp. in Kent, Wash., bought the company a year ag

U.S. manufacturers of X-ray machines, CAT scan equipment and other medical products have been hit wi

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Executives at cargo airlines who once had little choice but to throw up their hands when they saw a

The plunge in currency values in parts of Asia is beginning to be felt in countries where levels wer

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A special dispute panel formed under the North American Free Trade Agreement has recommended that th

A new hunt for organized crime's influence on the New York-New Jersey waterfront will spread beyond

Insurance regulators told a congressional hearing last week they are determined to make sure that Ho

Eighty-three years after it transformed itself into a mutual from a stock company, Prudential Insura

1)ASIA'S AIRBORNE EXPORTSAverage growth, world: 6.6 percent. Average growth, Asia: 7.7 perce

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Texaco Inc. is interested in acquiring a 25 percent stake in the $2.5 billion Kyurdashi oil project,

INVESTMENT GAINS BOOSTORION CAPITAL'S EARNINGSFARMINGTON, Conn. - Orion Capital Corp., a hol

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The maquiladora industry is welcoming Mexico's announced steps to ensure that border-area assemblage

'The end of a railroad is not a port. It is shareholder value.'

Getting cargo into and out of China by air is much simpler than it was a few years ago, the indu

It was enough to stop the heart of the most steely pilot. Some 4.5 million cubic feet of liquefied p

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