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STATE FARM TO INCREASECALIFORNIA HOME RATESHomeowners in California whose homes are insured

Seven of the eight major Japanese life insurers saw a dramatic increase in profits last fiscal year,

Specific guidelines on investment by managers of Hong Kong's compulsory retirement program were rele

New Jersey Insurance Commissioner Elizabeth Randall has announced she will convene a ''summit'' on J

Latin America is expected to let loose with a $40 billion technological buying spree through the end

June 7, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

TAIWAN TO APPEAL CUTOFFOF NUCLEAR PLANT FUNDSTAIPEI - Taiwan's Cabinet said it would appeal

Canada's major banks, fearing they will lose more ground to bigger foreign rivals in global markets,

Growing economic integration in the Americas will not be derailed by the thorny Cuban issue splittin

S. KOREA WARNS: DON'TACCESS NORTH'S WEB SITESSEOUL - South Korea has warned its public again

A bring-your-own-rice cruise to North Korea, being organized by Japan's non-governmental organizatio

YELTSIN BEGINSSERIES OF GIVEBACKSMOSCOW - The first phase of President Boris Yeltsin's plan

Chechnya's share of transit fees for carrying Caspian Sea oil to the West are likely to provide only

Environmentalists are welcoming a decision by the North American Commission on Environmental Coopera

President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon heads north today on the broadest trade and investment missi

Trucking and other transportation industries shared in the surprisingly big May jump in nonfarm payr

As of June 7, 1996Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from sup

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 248.68 up 1.23 w

Colombia's coffee industry may be on the brink of a revolution thanks to a machine that processes be

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,300-$1,500 per ton lots

Union Pacific Corp. rejected Conrail's sweetened $1.9 billion offer to purchase a key portion of Sou

You can read wastepaper exports like pulp fiction.The story line is almost always the same.R

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

Friday, June 7, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The eye-popping increase in jobs last month has reawakened fears of a rise in U.S. interest rates as

The Baltic Freight Index is a daily indicator of world bulk shipping freight rate levels.

The Panama Canal Commission says it will take 15-to-20 days to drain off the backlog of ships delaye

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

BILL BACKED TO AIDALAMEDA CORRIDORLOS ANGELES - A bipartisan group of House and Senate leade

Air Cargo World, a 54-year-old monthly magazine, has been acquired by The Journal of Commerce Inc.,

Two leading ship classification societies are at odds with each other about the best way to load bul

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, after several fits and starts, plans next month to se

Government officials have come up with a truly New Jersey solution for disposing of contaminated sil

Maryland has approved the enlargement of a containment site near Baltimore that will meet the port's

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, June 9, '95, - June 7, '96 (a graph)(2)D

Japan's official development assistance increased to $14.7 billion in 1995, up about 9 percent from

WISCONSIN CENTRAL TAKINGCHARGE OVER CSXT RULINGROSEMONT, Ill. - Wisconsin Central Transporta

1322 (June 7, 1996) Previous day - 1331The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lo

AS OF APRIL 30, 1996Parallel Market Foreign Exchange Rates are based on unofficial, non-docu

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule