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Recent efforts to break up the U.S. Commerce Department, increase its efficiency and privatize its o

Allstate has been accused of sending ''inaccurate, inappropriate and misleading'' letters to New Yor

They made their money on what the world's reinsurers refused to touch.But now Bermuda's prop

GERMAN METAL INDUSTRYKEEPS SICK-PAY BENEFITSHANOVER, Germany - In a defeat for Chancellor He

EUROPEAN UNION MAKESCHINA TRADE A PRIORITYBRUSSELS - The European Union agreed Friday to mak

Back in February, I speculated on the results of meetings held by the Transpacific Stabilization Agr

OHIO WORKER CAUGHTIN AUGER AND KILLEDMIDDLETOWN, Ohio - A contracted worker was killed when

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 243.55 up 2.18 w

Just about everyone in the railroad industry is asking the same question: Now that Transportacion Fe

Parallel Market Foreign Exchange Rates are based on unofficial, non-documented currency dealings and

Boeing Co. moved further into the aerospace and defense market last week with news that it will comp

Steel traders must have nerves of steel these days.The financing of imports and exports has

Chile's recent entry into the Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur in Spanish) is being billed as t

Despite its recent endorsement of a grandiose plan to slash tariffs on telecommunications products,

ATLAS AIR INC.R. Terrence Rendleman was appointed senior vice president technical services a

British antitrust authorities handed down what could be the best deal British Airways and American A

For anyone hoping that ratification of the recent West Coast longshore contract would have ended the

For the week ended November30, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equale

Intermodal marketing companies continue to accelerate the diversification of their business away fro

JAPAN, US FAR APARTIN INSURANCE DISPUTETOKYO - Japan and the United States failed last Frida

Recovery and reform in Latin American and Caribbean economies have set off a scramble among U.S. and

When are legal goods illegal? When they're so-called parallel imports.This gray area involvi

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

1453 (Dec. 6, 1996) Previous day - 1445The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lo

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

Friday, Dec. 6, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Dec. 6, 1996No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 34.

IRAQ READY TO EXPORTIF UN OKS OIL SALECAIRO - Iraq said Friday it can start exporting crude

CASJENS: DESPERATIONMAY BRING TRADE SENSELONDON - Freight rates in the Europe/Asia trades ma

House and Senate lawmakers preparing for the opening of the 105th Congress next month are planning t

U.S., Mexican and Canadian environmental officials and advocates, working with the North American Fr

With a Chinese government deadline for trade retaliation set for Dec. 31, Chinese and U.S. negotiato

Germany and France today will try to resolve outstanding differences over the last remaining buildin

Traders expect more turbulence in the currency markets this week as strong year-end forces surface a

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Seven years after federal prosecutors moved to expel the mob from the Teamsters union, the governmen

Westinghouse Electric has agreed to pay $6 million to settle out of court with the trustee for Bonne

Friday Dec. 6, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

ACORDIA INC.Frank C. Witthun was named chief executive officer of the insurance brokerage fi

The United States just said ''no'' to Colombian President Ernest Samper last summer.Then the