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Ohio's agriculture director thinks it is crazy - and unconstitutional - that meat from foreign count

In a victory for consumer groups, California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush has complied w

Let's face it, the core of any transportation company is a good management team. These are thepeople

American Airlines and China Eastern Airlines plan to enter into a code-sharing agreement.The

''At last Europe has a low-cost back yard just like the U.S. has in Mexico and Japan in its Asian ne

CHILE-EU FREE-TRADETALKS SET FOR 1998SANTIAGO, Chile - Chile's free-trade agreement negotiat

Consolidation in the aerospace industry is still going strong as second-tier companies unite in resp

Norfolk Southern Corp. took the first regulatory step toward filing a formal application toacquire C

Avondale Industries, a major U.S. shipyard that has refused to recognize a union chosen by its 4,000

Feb. 24, 1997Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

NEW YORK BANKING CHIEFGETS INSURANCE NODALBANY, N.Y. - Gov. George Pataki nominated Neil D.

SAFECO CORP.Jack Stiegler, assistant vice president of the Seattle company's Safeco Insuranc

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The following fuel oil prices are for the week ending Feb. 19, 1997 as supplied by the bunker fuel d

International Petroleum ExchangeFeb. 24, 1997 BRENT CRUDE OIL - (DOLLARS PER BARREL)

Monday Feb. 24, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

Thanks in part to a captive market, China's only reinsurance entity is forecasting a 50 percent jump

James E. Trask III, insurance advertising salesman for The Journal of Commerce since 1985, died Satu

The China Airlines office at Miami International Airport consists of little more than four bare wall

U.S. and other foreign exporters to Mexico now have timetables for a program allowing product labeli

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 241.23 off 0.13 wh

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European shippers are being urged by one of their representative bodies to continue the legal fight

FOURTH QUARTER GOODFOR BA CARGO REVENUELONDON - British Airways World Cargo reported revenue

Morocco's power chief said the government could sell stakes in power plants to private investors.

S. KOREAN WORKERSRENEW STRIKE THREATSEOUL - South Korean union workers on Monday revived thr

Juergen Weber, chairman of Lufthansa German Airlines, will know today whether he has a ''Mcstrike''

Gains in the trucking and container shipping sectors outweighed losses in air and express company st

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,524-$1,595 per ton lo

By most measures, Germany is in an economic morass. Unemployment has hit a postwar high of 4.7 milli

Current Textile Quotas:Where the average recent utilization rate indicates full quota utiliz

A Chinese corn farmer in Jilin province opens his bag of fertilizer as much of it evaporates. He the

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

1463 (Feb. 24, 1997) Previous day - 1465The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

February 24, 1997This table shows the vessels scheduled to call at U.S. coal terminals and t

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The U.S. dollar declined on profit-taking Monday, slipping to 121.64 yen and 1.6686 Deutsche marks b

The European Union Monday said tendering laws by Massachusetts and other states that threaten to blo

Yangming Marine Transport Corp. is starting Suez Canal service from the U.S. East Coast to hubs in C