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Jan. 23, 1996 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Tuesday Jan. 23, 1996 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

Chinese officials have accused major trading partners of protectionism and discrimination in anti-du

Japanese unions gave the nod to waterfront negotiators to allow labor-saving terminal arrangements,

Hong Kong's franchised air cargo handler missed its target by a whisker, but managed record volume l

Shippers don't like to admit they are captive, even if they are, and transportation companies, coinc

PILOTS END ACTION, CITE PROGRESS IN FEDEX TALKSMEMPHIS - The Air Line Pilots Associa

Union Pacific Railroad announced plans to sell an "orphaned" 203-mile rail line centered in western

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Safeco, the region's largest insurance company, reported fourth-quarter and annual profit at the hig

GLICKMAN TO DISCUSS WHEAT BAN WITH CHINAU.S. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman will raise C

Jan. 23, 1996 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Japan's first private nuclear fuel reprocessing plant will cost more than 1.6 trillion yen ($15.2 bi

ENRON TO RESUME WORK ON INDIA POWER PROJECTBOMBAY - Enron Corp. said it will resume

The Coast Guard switched plans abruptly Tuesday in the cleanup of a massive Rhode Island oil spill a

FERRY RETURNS TO RUSSIA AFTER CHECHEN HIJACKINGSOCHI, Russia - The ferry Avrasya sai

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. plans to open a new rail route in the Pacific Northwest to reliev

CHINA'S TRADE SURPLUS TRIPLES TO $16.69 BILLIONChina's trade surplus widened to $16.69 billi

The largest oil spill in history - from the Exxon Valdez in 1989 - also produced the biggest insuran

Economist Rudiger Dornbusch of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said he expected France to

Countertrade - the parallel purchase or trade of one product in exchange for another - is famous thr

Jan. 23, 1996 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

The oil will evaporate; television crews will go home; the oil-gathering equipment will be rolled up

The Russian government has halted its sell-off of carriers and ports, arguing that it must retain th

More than 120 barges were carried away by flood waters along the rivers of Pennsylvania and Ohio - a

Bidding has started for the first cold-storage warehouse at the Port of Veracruz, Mexico's busiest a

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U.S. burger giant McDonald's Corp. is taking on its South African competitors in the country's two h

A story, appearing on Page 11A on Jan. 18 with the headline "Bankers Security Life Adopts a New Name

President Fidel Ramos said Tuesday that the Japan Credit Rating Agency Ltd. has upgraded the Philipp

With the new year not yet a month old, China's textile industry already reckons it won't be a happy

The arrival of the longest train in Europe at a freight terminal here last week marked two important

Deregulation and competition in the U.S. electric utility industry will change the way coal is price

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With 1996 barely under way, Japan is staking out its position against any renewal of the U.S.-Japan

Utilization levels for containerships serving the United States are on the way down, and freight rat

MTL Inc., the nation's fourth-largest tank truck company, has formed a dry- bulk division and is add

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(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Jan. 27, '95 - Jan. 23, '96 (a graph) (2