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The lack of of liquidity in Japan's cash market for naphtha is likely to hurt both end-users and ref

American Business Insurance, the world's 19th largest insurance brokerage, is looking for a buyer, s

The story "Bermuda Benefits From Shrinking Insurance Mart," on Page 9A of The Journal of Commerce on

The United States and the European Community Friday will join forces to convince Japan that it must

VOLVO GM HEAVY TRUCK FORMS FINANCING UNITGREENSBORO, N.C. - Volvo GM Heavy Truck Cor

Are You Really, Really Sure You Want to Get Into This Business? ''Oh yeah? Jack the rates up

Transportation News Ticker The dry cargo and tanker fixtures listed herewith and compiled in

A House maritime subcommittee approved a $621 million budget for the Maritime Administration in fisc

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In the late 1970s, only two nesting pelicans could be found in coastal Alabama. Later, when

Frustrated over the Trans-Atlantic Agreement's cargo rate hikes and what they see as their lack of n

The Federal Maritime Commission wants to put ship lines in U.S. offshore trades under a seven-day de

Roadway Services Inc. announced Wednesday that it will enter the highly competitive heavy air freigh

Apple Computer Inc. apparently has found a way to settle with a Brazilian high-tech company in an on

The ocean freight industry must improve productivity by reforming port operations, piloting and long

May 12, 1993 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

International Petroleum Exchange May 12, 1993Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)_

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Cotton is white, but it has a black heart, as they say in Egypt. Egyptians would know the da

The United States, which has long enjoyed a trade surplus in plastics resins, has now nearly erased

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The state's largest business group lost a gambit Tuesday to force the Minnesota Senate to consider r

Multinational insurance broker Rollins Hudig Hall will move part of its Manhattan operation to Two W

NEW MERCEDES UNIT TO HANDLE US FACTORYWOOD DALE, Ill. - Mercedes-Benz AG, the German

Guenter Rexrodt, economics minister, clarified his earlier proposal for an energy tax to help subsid

Thai rescuers worked into the night Wednesday to find more bodies from Monday's factory fire in whic

Government officials have dismissed as "ridiculous" a Russian proposal to build a huge port on the B

The board of commissioners of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey will hold its regular meet

Wednesday, May 12, 1993 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

U.S. Sugar Corp. upstaged the government by attacking an unreleased General Accounting Office report

The government said Wednesday it is reviewing its investment rules to lure more funds, the latest si

May 12, 1993 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

An enterprising Japanese importer plans to sell rice from California - and the government says it co

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 208.05 up 0.28 which compares w

The USF&G Corp. is preparing to launch a joint venture to offer reinsurance with an initial capitali

The accounting firm that audited the books of Kentucky Central Life Insurance Co. is closing its Lex

A New York private investigator who admitted to selling a polygraph machine to the government of Ira

Rail traffic ended a two-month decline in April, with both carloadings and intermodal volume showing

HoW tO Use: Under the U.S. government's American Business Initiative, the Eastern Europe Bus

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