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EUROPEAN INSPECTORSDETAIN SHIPS FOR SAFETYLONDON - Ships flying the flags of Cyprus, Turkey

CAPITAL RE CORP. REPORTSYEAR-END INCOME INCREASENEW YORK - Capital Re Corp. said 1996 net in

Counterfeiters have for the first time succeeded in forging the new improved US$100 bills, Russian p

Japanese officials and corporate executives who less than two years ago yelped with pain as the yen

TRAVELERS TO BUY BACK$1 BILLION IN STOCKNEW YORK - Travelers Group Inc., the insurance and f

Thursday Jan. 23, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

Cargo volume continues to grow so rapidly at the neighboring ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles tha

Jan. 23, 1997U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

A U.S. company has started negotiating to sell American grain to North Korea, the communist country'

PACCAR INC.Richard P. Fox will join the Bellevue, Wash., truck manufacturer as senior vice p

An entire generation of insurance executives doesn't know what it's like to operate a property/casua

The Cuban American National Foundation, the conservative exile group that played a key role in the t

Sony Corp. announced a massive reorganization on Thursday to increase its focus on the lucrative U.S

The Russian government is to introduce a new plan for prepayment of taxes and excise dutieson import

Five hours of talks between Taiwan and China on restoring direct maritime links produced an upbeat s

China, sharply criticized by Washington and Brussels for intellectual property rights violations, ha

U.S. inventories of distillate fuel oil, used as home heating and diesel fuel, fell 2.9 million barr

As of Jan. 23, 1997Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

Jan. 23, 1997No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 33

Dairy farmers suffering from a steep decline in prices hope their one-day milk-dumping protest shows

''There will be Florida fruit and vegetables available. Maybe not in the volume we had last week, bu

The government here has convinced the World Trade Organization to delay the deadline by which India

Thursday, Jan. 23, 1997Percentages Per Year INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

The U.S. dollar continued its ascent against the Japanese yen Thursday as it approached the 120-yen

Boeing Co.'s year end and fourth quarter numbers reflect what analysts and industry types already kn

Officials at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport are worried that air freight now movin

Since the newly formed shipping giant P&O Nedlloyd sees its greatest growth opportunities in the tra

The search to replace John Terpstra at the helm of the Port of Tacoma, Wash., officially began when

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 240.80 off 0.04

The Port of Colombo has dismissed 185 workers who participated in a strike in December to protest th

A leading U.S. civil engineer is among the winners of contracts to privatize and essentially rebuild

Japan's trade surplus plunged by nearly a third last year, but the latest monthly figures show an in

Xerox Corp. said Thursday it had found buyers for two pieces of its Talegen Holdings Inc. insurance

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

The man who bid on Atlantic Container Line speaks in a whisper with a prizefighter's chin.Bo

Despite growing public concern about the use of nuclear power, the Japanese government is exploring

The Russian government is planning to push through a set of economic reforms early this year that co

The new U.S.-Singapore ''open skies'' pact means U.S. cargo airlines can now make Singapore a hub, h

LUGAR HITS DASCHLE PLANON FARM LOAN PAYMENTWASHINGTON - Senate Agriculture Committee Chairma

The potential merger of Gateway Western Railway Co. and Kansas City Southern Railway Co. should mean