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The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 224.90 off 1.70

When a judge in this city summarily dropped charges against five confessed murderers of a U.S. real

Jan. 9, 1998Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

International Petroleum ExchangeJan. 9, 1998 *Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Jan. 9, 1998RESELLER RACK UNLEADED MID- PREMIUM-UNLEA

New York Mercantile Exchange - Jan. 8, 1998PREV. LIFE OF CONTR. OPENOPEN HIGH

Jan. 9, 1998No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 27.

Jan. 9, 1998U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

THAI CHIEF ORDERSHALT TO GAS PIPELINEBANGKOK - Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai has ordered work

Changing times make for long-distance romances - especially in the electric utility industry.

Nearly two decades ago, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad disappeared from U.S. rail maps, l

A San Francisco financier allegedly at the heart of a fiscal mismanagement scandal at the Port of Mi

Friday Jan. 9, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

Top executives from Pacific ocean carriers meeting in Hong Kong this week face the thorny question o

The world's leading forum for resolving international commercial disputes by arbitration has overhau

Nippon Yusen Kaisha Ltd. (NYK Line) has been fined $425,000 by the Federal Maritime Commission in a

In a move to upgrade its terminals for customers and meet the needs of airport modernization, SAS Ca

As of Dec. 31, 1997Parallel Market Foreign Exchange Rates are based on unofficial, non-docum

CHINA SAID TO LOWERGROWTH FORECASTSHANGHAI - China is believed to have lowered an earlier fo

Russia appears poised to reopen its trade and transit doors to Central Asia in the next few days aft

'What we have here is socialism for the rich.'

Political resistance in Asia to the austerity measures demanded by the International Monetary Fund c

International financier and philanthropist George Soros on Friday called for immediate reform of the

EU Commission to holdtalks with Japan todayBRUSSELS - The European Union Commission said the

The Mexican government approved 55 new maquiladoras - or foreign-owned plants that assemble products

OFFERS TO BUY* HENNY PENNY PRESSURE FRYERS. Henny Penny Pressure Fryers from United States.

BAY STATE SENATORLOSES INSURANCE POSTBOSTON - The Massachusetts Senate voted Thursday to str

The article headlined ''Subrogation resurfaces as priority'' that ran on Page 8A on Friday, Jan. 2,

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

CONSTRUCTION BEGINSON NATURAL GAS PROJECTTORONTO - Construction has officially begun on the

Federal investigators have uncovered more than 100 serious safety violations at the former ValuJet A

Two major trade groups representing rail customers told the Surface Transportation Board why an agre

TRUCKSCALIBER SHAREHOLDERSOK FEDEX STOCK SWAPAKRON, Ohio - Shareholders of Caliber S

Despite November and December payroll declines, the transportation industry was one of last year's h

The economic value delivered by trucks outweighs the benefits of reducing highway congestion and air

NORTH AMERICAN VAN LINES INC.Peter Brennan was promoted to vice president and general manage

Local authorities appealed for federal help to fight an oil slick created when some 1.2 million gall

Zim Israel Navigation Co. suspended service at the Port of Baltimore after four decades, becoming th

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by Reuter Money Service, are selling rates among

Chilean salmon ex- porters lost a split decision Friday when the U.S. Commerce Department proposed