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De Beers' Central Selling Organization (CSO), the body which controls about 75 percent of world trad

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India's Maharashtra state government will decide by Dec. 10 whether to reverse its decision to scrap

Ocean carriers expect to return to Liverpool in the coming week as container- handling operations at

Frito-Lay Inc. has hired lobbyist Ann M. Eppard, an ally of Rep. Bud Shuster, R-Pa., chairman of the

Hapag-Lloyd AG, Germany's leading ocean carrier, Wednesday confirmed plans to spend more than $700 m

Consumers cut back sharply on the amount of debt they took on in September, the Federal Reserve said

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Garment exporters in Sri Lanka are pressing their government to remove procedural and other problems

Shipper opinion about the proposed merger of Union Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Transportat

Bridget Milling Smith, widow of a Royal Marine officer killed on active duty in Oman, has given up t

Continued vigilance by the Federal Reserve is the key to price stability in the United States, New Y

Russian President Boris Yeltsin, recovering from a mild heart ailment, made his first major decision

SPAIN WILL RENEW EXPORTS OF PORKBRUSSELS - Spain will be permitted to resume its exp

"Multinationals are here to loot the country and the government is being a party to it by inviting t

South Korea should reform its labor code and lift a ban on independent unions before it joins the th

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World oil demand is expected to surge again next year, but the once-mighty Organization of Petroleum

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Japanese companies, having largely restored their price competitiveness amid the yen's recent fall a

Singapore's port officials want to lease two container berths at Madras for at least two years.<

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A bipartisan Senate bill to close down the Interstate Commerce Commission and scale back its existin

The state's superintendent of insurance said he plans to rescind or dramatically change 105 of the e

Wednesday Nov. 8, 1995 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

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Recent expansion at the Port of Ningbo in eastern China has proved inadequate to handlestrong demand

The United States and Thailand today are expected to announce the launch of negotiations aimed at op

"We're obviously thrilled that the (National Labor Relations) Board agreed with us that Boeing had b

BNSF WILL ELIMINATE 1,125 MANAGEMENT JOBSBurlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. will eliminate 1

Wisconsin shippers, faced with a surcharge that could add $50,000 to annual freight bills, are backi

A legislative maneuver in the Massachusetts Senate may have put the state's double-stack rail plan b

The imposition of unjustified "green" taxes on oil by consuming countries could leave OPEC facing "e

International Port of Coos Bay officials are looking forward to President Clinton signing a measure

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The story headlined "Blue Skies, Good Talk Draw Risk Managers to Monte Carlo" that appeared on Page

The Mexican government will publish long-awaited rules today for private- sector transmission, distr

PECO Energy Co. on Tuesday urged Pennsylvania's Public Utilities Commission to allow the state's uti

Sometimes, Conrad Everhard feels he is like water, flowing over rocks in a stream. Many in the shipp