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EXEL Ltd. will pay $637 million in cash to acquire all outstanding shares of GCR Holdings Lt

The U.S. Department of Commerce this week issued a preliminary report that recommends an end to the

CONTROL DATAKathrine Huelster will manage the company's new insurance marketing program offi

WALLENIUS ACQUIRESVEHICLE CARRIER WALONSTOCKHOLM - Vehicle-carrier Wallenius Lines of Stockh

BDP INTERNATIONAL INC.Peter Huels was named managing director of this Philadelphia-based cus

Atlantic Container Line is eyeing expansion opportunities.The trans-Atlantic carrier that op

RailTex Inc., the largest publicly held owner of short-line railroads, reported a 27 percent decline

This was a week of accolades for Navy Secretary John Dalton.The maritime industry bestowed o

While most railroads and their customers ponder the domestic implications of the $10.2 billion plan

It's official.After years of painful inaction in the face of seemingly endless lawsuits from

Corporate welfare or savior of high-tech jobs?That's a question Congress, public-interest

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

After some hard foreign policy lessons from his first term, President Clinton faced down domestic pr

Wednesday, May 7, 1997 Percentages Per YearINTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATES

The U.S. dollar fell Wednesday on fears of central bank intervention to support the Japanese yen and

U.S. and European Union negotiators are struggling to meet a May 28 deadline for a series of product

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, May 10, 1996 - May 7, 1997 (a graph)* An

Piracy of new business software applications generally slowed last year but still cost U.S. software

Despite just-announced gains in Russia's reserves of gold and hard currency, Russian officials and W

FRENCH OFFICIAL BLOCKSEU WHEAT-EXPORT TAXBRUSSELS - French Commissioner Edith Cresson Wednes

JAPAN TRADE SURPLUSSEEN TRIPLE FOR APRILTOKYO - Japan's trade surplus is expected to have st

KN Energy Inc. of the United States won the natural gas distribution concession in the northern stat

''What other industry is under such scrutiny that the network news devotes time to reporting that on

Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin is winning praise from unusual quarters this week for proposing 2

It's one of Europe's best-kept business secrets.At least that's what government officials fr

OFFERS TO BUY486 COMPUTERS. Urgently need 350 computers 486, with 4 MB ram and 100 MB harddi

CHINA FLEET EXPANSIONSEEN EXPLOITATION MOVEAUCKLAND, New Zealand - China is building a fishi

Increasing the pressure in a case that has brought protests from the United States, a software compa

The United States and Mexico have agreed to examine the need for strengthening new rules that took e

In the wake of President Clinton's historic meeting with opposition party leaders here, Mexico's

SHIPSVENEZUELAN GROUPTARGET OF PROBECARACAS, Venezuela - An investigation is

Bremer Lagerhaus Gesellschaft - the stevedore for the Port of Bremen/Bremerhaven - is aggressively l

The Department of Agriculture and a major hauler of U.S. food aid - often locked in controversy - fi

NORWEGIAN OIL TANKERTO UNDERGO SEA TRIALSLONDON - The Sea Empress, the huge Norwegian oil ta

The Surface Transportation Board will take up the long-running dispute between Amtrak and Guilford T

Troubled Canadian Airlines Corp. continues to bleed red ink, reporting another huge quarterly loss a

AMERICAN COMMERCIALBARGE LINES Brooke Bickerton was named manager of environmental affairs a

PORT OF ST. BERNARDREPORTS CARGO GROWTHCHALMETTE, La. - The Port of St. Bernard in Chalmette

Canadian grain cars are backlogged at the ports of Vancouver, British Columbia, and Thunder Bay, Ont

Maersk Line is upgrading its service to the eastern side of Africa, where commerce has expanded stea