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Perdue Farms Inc. became the latest poultry producer to reduce output in an effort to cope with low

Africa's biggest crude oil producer, Nigeria, saw business in its commercial hub Lagos grind to a ha

Residents remained indoors Monday as Indonesia sent extra soldiers to the mining town of Tembagapura

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Three executives, including one who would lose his current job under the proposed merger of Ciba-Gei

The first federal oil and gas lease sale off the Pacific coast of Alaska since the Exxon Valdez oil

Latin American exporters of fresh and frozen seafood are struggling to increase the volume and value

Ceres Terminals Inc., a U.S.-based stevedore, is acquiring Combined Terminals Amsterdam (CTA), the b

While many U.S. transportation stocks took a beating amid Friday's massive sell-off on the New York

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The global container shipping industry is launching a public relations offensive in response to year

Norway's consumer price index was unchanged in February from a month earlier, the Central Bureau of

U.K. producer output prices were up 0.2 percent in February from January, after rising a unrevised 0

PORTION OF COMP LAWRULED UNCONSTITUTIONALDENVER - A portion of Colorado's workers compensati

Phoenix Home Life Mutual Insurance Co., one of the largest policyholder-owned life insurers in the U

PUGET SOUND FERRY PLANSTIRS CONTROVERSYSEATTLE - A proposal to run private ferries between S

Although Puerto Rico's shipping association and port agency have reached a tentative agreement on en

Voters go to the polls across the South today to cast their votes in ''Super Tuesday'' primaries tha

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Feb. 24 '95, - Mar. 11, '96 (a graph)(2)

Germany warned Monday it won't activate an ''open skies'' pact with the United States unless Lufthan

Foreign direct investment in the economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union showed stea

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The Export-Import Bank, already helping finance small business exporters at a record rate, is taking

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

Russia's chief food inspector said Monday that Moscow still intends to cease granting licenses for U

Japan, the United States and the European Union started carefully setting out their battle lines Mon

The U.S. dollar declined Monday, as foreign investors worried about a repeat of Friday's panic selli

Freight transporters on both sides of the English Channel tunnel are urging the British and French g

The fatal crash of two trains operated by U.K. subsidiaries of Wisconsin Central Transportation Corp

Jordanian inflation continued its upward trend in January and February, rising 1.5 percent in Februa

Dutch aircraft maker Fokker NV said Monday it plans to file for bankruptcy as soon as this week for

Art Scheunemann has a problem, a fish problem, and he's not quite sure how to resolve it.The

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. is trying to use its Chapter 11 case as a crowbar to force seafaring union

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The U.S. sector most likely to be disrupted if the United States follows through on threats to impos

The following fuel oil prices are for the week ending Mar. 6, 1996, as supplied by the bunker fuel d

Shipping lines hope to press the Cote d'Ivoire government to improve procedures for the export of co

Repairs on the Romanian bulker Giurgiu were due to be completed late Monday or Tuesday, and the vess

Bath Iron Works conspired to defraud Lloyd's of London and other British insurers out of millions of

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. and Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. created one of the