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FORMOSA PLASTICSSHELVES POWER PROJECTTAIPEI - Formosa Plastics Group, Taiwan's largest busin

Evergreen Marine Corp. of Taiwan is teaming up with a veteran U.S. line, Crowley Maritime Corp., to

Brian W. Fairclough was named European manager, sales, for The Journal of Commerce and its Port Impo

Lloyd's of London today faces a final hurdle on the way to implementation of its reconstruction and

Steelmakers laid off hundreds of thousands of workers in the 1970s and '80s to get lean and mean, bu

A Crowley Marine Services tugboat, the Cavalier, rescued two survivors of a capsized fishing vessel

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. is combating efforts by a competitor, Sea-Land Service Inc., to block Lyke

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Aug. 16, 1996No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 27

In order to make coffee exports more economically attractive, the central bank should adopt monetary

The first meeting of a group of nations enacting sanctions against Burundi found the measures are ha

Democrats have been trying to do it for years, but it took GOP presidential nominee Bob Dole to pres

Friday Aug. 16, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

In 1994, Pulse Instruments lost its credit line when, without warning, its bank foreclosed.'

Calling attention to its new policy of liberalizing and shaping up its insurance sector, South Korea

A Maryland court ruled unanimously earlier this month that several insurance companies don't have to

SHIPSWESTERN OVERSEASWANTS TO SELL BOXSHIPWASHINGTON - Western Overseas Inc., Sylvan

The generally lackluster container performance at West Coast ports this year is underscored sharply

Thursday, Aug. 15, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

1090 (Aug. 15, 1996) Previous day - 1080The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

ANZOIL TO RAISE FUNDSTO APPRAISE VIETNAM GASMELBOURNE, Australia - Anzoil, an Australian oil

Aug. 15, 1996No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 27

Score one for a band of British Columbia dairy farmers that have been fighting Canada's centrally ma

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 249.33 off 0.58

Aug. 15, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Bandits in Indonesia's remote Irian Jaya province kidnapped 13 local employees of a major timber com

Shell officials said they had received 30 proposals on the long-awaited disposal of the company's ob

Angry over plans by the U.S. Customs Service to force more U.S.-Mexico truck traffic onto an underus

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Aug. 18, '95 - Aug. 15, '96 (a graph)* A

International Petroleum ExchangeAug. 15, 1996 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Cuba said the mission of President Clinton's special envoy - whose task is to persuade Washington's

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Texas oilman Oscar Wyatt, who met with Saddam Hussein in December 1990 to negotiate the release of U

AEI FORGES ALLIANCEWITH ISRAELI FORWARDERDARIEN, Conn. - AEI has a global alliance with Flyi

The article headlined ''Catastrophe risk index proposed in Bermuda'' which appeared on Page 8A on Tu

The Los Angeles Harbor Commission has extended a wharfage rate discount for the Matson Navigation Co

The latest U.S.-Hong Kong tussle over textiles remains at an uneasy standoff as the trading partners

Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui said Taiwan needs to review its policy of targeting China as its ma

NATION OF GEORGIA FACESELECTRICITY CUTBACKSTBILISI, Georgia - Georgians will have only 10 ho