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California's exports surged nearly 19% last year, providing an important boost to the state's econom

SOUTH KOREA TRADE GAPNARROWS TO $304 MILLIONSEOUL - South Korea posted a trade deficit of $3

Policyholders of the state's two largest insurance companies, Allstate and Farmers, are alleging tha

Members of the textile and apparel trade aren't completely happy with Customs' latest efforts to hel

CHINESE-BUILT VESSELADDED TO LASCO FLEET PORTLAND, Ore. - Lasco Shipping Co. has taken deliv

ATLAS AIR SEEKS FUNDSTO BUY MORE PLANESGOLDEN, Colo. - Business is so good at Atlas Air that

The U.S. dollar rose to a new 1996 high of 107.70 yen in early Tokyo trading Monday, initially boost

Here are the names and addresses of eight foreign firms against which U.S. Customs has assessed pena

Japan's revised insurance business law came into effect Monday, paving the way for life and nonlife

Aetna Life & Casualty Co. said Monday it will acquire U.S. Healthcare in an $8.9 billion deal that w

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Tar balls were scattered across 21 miles of remote beaches on Matagorda Island along the Texas coast

New tariff cuts in strategic sectors as well as global accords on foreign direct investment and comp

Bangladesh started returning to normal over the weekend following the resignation of Prime Minister

Leucadia National Corp. reported that net income in 1995 increased to $107.5 million, or $1.77 per s

Newfoundland's piece of the action in megaprojects like the Terra Nova oil development could hinge o

The boom is finally fading from the U.S. trade with Brazil.Ocean carriers serving the trade

Even by the standards of Midwestern small towns, this is an exceedingly relaxed place. Everyone walk

The words 'labor problems' and 'Australia docks' have become almost synonymous.But executive

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1449 (Apr. 1, 1996) Previous day - 1448The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lo

Boris Yeltsin will be re-elected as Russia's president this year, generating a new spate of Russian

S&P AFFIRMS OUTLOOKFOR JAPAN P/C SECTORTOKYO - Standard & Poor's affirmed its stable near-te

FOREIGN EXCHANGERESERVES UP IN JAPAN TOKYO - Japan's foreign exchange reserves increased $4.

Monday Apr. 1, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

One port's dredging woes can be the key to another port's dreams.Ports in Virginia and Nova

Full-blown battles will be joined this week after opponents of the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific me

The European Union made final preparations Friday to add Eastern European nations after its leaders

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The California state Senate last week passed legislation to create a state-run earthquake insurance

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The U.S. dollar will rise this week on expectations that Japanese life insurance companies, trusts ,

Mar. 29, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

In contrast to last year's gripe session about railroad service, truckers on a panel at this year's

Prospects are improving for a new ''strategic'' export control law after a House committee passed le

''You're in the business of picking out the exception and writing about it. It's not fun to say what

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, April 7, '95, - Mar. 29, '96 (a graph)(2

North Korea said late last week it hoped to receive more food aid from the United States and other c

STOLEN VEHICLES FOUNDWAITING FOR OVERSEAS TRIPLONG BEACH, Calif. - A car homing device led p

PRESTON TRUCKING CO.The Preston, Md.-based Midwest and Northeast less-than-truckload carrier