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(1) DAILY INDEX Annual Smoothed percent +9.685/3 99.15/4 99.65/5

Japan said Monday it had a record $142.8 billion trade surplus for the fiscal year ended March 31, 1

Australia's trade deficit with the United States is widening because of the import barriers Washingt

TRANSAMERICA CORP. PLANS STOCK BUYBACKNEW YORK - Transamerica Corp. said it will buy

It's a sellers' market in the Philippines for the world's telecommunications giants as a host of new

GEICO REPORTS DECLINE IN OPERATING INCOMEWASHINGTON - Geico Corp. reported that firs

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A congressional investigating agency has attacked Federal Railroad Administration safety practices a

China is planning to build "several" new refineries and ethylene plants, the official China Daily ne

May 9, 1994 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150per ton lots &

May 9, 1994 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

The Brazilian carrier, Nacional Line, announced the appointment of McLean Kennedy as its agent for t

The following is the list of bunker prices obtained during the course of week ending May 6, 1994. Un

Japanese sources are skeptical about how Saudi Arabia's formal request to Japan to resume an abandon

No story.

Bankers in Belarus, one of the largest republics in the European part of the former Soviet Union, ho

CROWLEY AMERICAN TRANSPORT INC. (Jacksonville, Fla.) - The liner subsidiary of Crowley Maritime Corp

Manfred Brunner, a controversial German politician who once was a top aide in the European Union, is

The net change in U.K. consumer credit was a rise of UK516 million (US$768.84 million) in March foll

Meeting for the first time since enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Cabinet offic

Merchandise exports from Texas grew sharply in 1993 and exceeded the national export growth rate of

China has a better-than-even chance of winning renewal of its U.S. trade privileges but partial sanc

SAUDI ARAMCO MAY CUT JAPANESE CRUDE SALESNICOSIA, Cyprus - Some of Saudi Aramco's Ja

The Federal Maritime Commission today will cancel the ocean freight rates of 19 consolidators that m

German-owned ships sailing under a non-German flag have experienced fewer accidents in the last thre

May 9, 1994 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

As of May 9, 1994 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from sup

A number of senior employees from Swiss-based commodity trader Marc Rich & Co. said Monday they are

DEPORTATION OF STOWAWAYS NEARS IN WAKE OF RULINGA federal appeals court has cleared the way

Beijing's move to fix gasoline and diesel prices is a temporary measure to fight inflation and will

May 9-15, 1994 This table shows the vessels scheduled to call at U.S. coal terminals andthe

Brazilian President Itamar Franco Monday announced that the nation's new currency, the real, will be

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CAROLINA FREIGHT CARRIERS CORP. (Cherryville, N.C.) - Douglas D. Williams was promoted from director

Teamsters at Sea-Land Service Inc. terminals on the West Coast didn't really want to be on the picke

Chester D. Hooper, the new president of the Maritime Law Association of the United States, proposed

A fruit importer in Mexico's west coast port of Manzanillo has completed a trial run for delivery of

The Journal of Commerce's daily Industrial Price Index hit another 1994 high Monday, moving to 100.1

A tendency by investors in the United Arab Emirates to keep their money awayfrom banks becau