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NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDINGMike Petters was named vice president of aircraft carriers.Mr. Pett

The United States and Mexico have produced a ''Binational Drug Strategy'' that is long on vague comm

The Canadian and United States governments are asking their citizens what to do about encouragement

Residents of China's capital like the idea of life insurance, nearly doubling premium volume from la

PLANESUAL WORLDWIDE CARGOREVENUE SOARS IN 1997CHICAGO - United Airlines Worl

With no new cases of the lethal HSN1 bird flu virus reported since the mass slaughter of Hong Kong's

Asia's trade and investment ties with the Mediterranean go back to the days of Marco Polo, who spent

Foreign automakers in Russia will be encouraged to use more domestic parts under a decree creating m

The Clinton administration is floating the idea of a trimmed-down trade agenda in Congress this year

New York Mercantile Exchange - Feb. 5, 1998PREV. LIFE OF CONTR. OPENOPEN HIGH

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

Feb. 6, 1998Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

SHIPSCP SHIPS, TMM EXTENDMEXICAN SERVICETAMPA, Fla. - CP Ships and Transport

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

The General Accounting Office has been instructed by Sen. John McCain, R.- Ariz., to conduct an econ

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Feb. 21, 1997 - Feb. 6, 1998 (a graph)<

The United States and other governments will meet in Paris next week to try to renew their push for

938 (Feb. 6, 1998) Previous day - 950The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lond

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

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

AMERICAN BANKERSRESPONDS TO OFFERMIAMI - American Bankers Insurance Group Inc. said Friday i

The Baltic Exchange will launch a tanker freight index today that will form the basis for futures an

The wine trade between the United States and the countries of the Mediterranean Basin is booming. Un

Feb. 6, 1998RESELLER RACK UNLEADED MID- PREMIUM-UNLEA

APL Ltd. and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines will charter 2,600 weekly container slots from Lykes Lines when the

The recent stabilization in many Asian stock and currency markets has weakened the dollar, but the e

U.S. Customs inspectors, following the lead of their drug-sniffing dog at the San Luis, Ariz., borde

'I don't rule anything out; the Americans have not been reluctant to take us to the World Trade Orga

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

Feb. 6, 1998U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

NATURAL GAS CLEARINGHOUSENatural Gas Clearinghouse - Posted prices for Feb. 1998 (see Note 1

New York's quest to win the hearts of the world's 3,966 corporate-owned captive insurers took two sm

Enquiries about exporting chicken to Hong Kong can be sent directly to the Hong Kong Trade Developme

U.S. exports to the Mediterranean area are expected to post a year of generally modest gains.

There may be room for compromise in the long-running dispute between ocean carriers in the Trans Atl

As of Feb. 6, 1998Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from sup

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 235.68 up 0.78 w

In an effort to restart negotiations over the financial services deregulation bill, the House Commer

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's plans to reduce the dependence of Southeast Asian trade

LINCOLN NATIONAL GAINSFROM SALE OF SUBSIDIARYFORT WAYNE, Ind. - Lincoln National Corp. saw i