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The insurance industry is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide once and for all whether it had en

The article headlined "MetLife Announces Joint Venture in Mexico" on Page 12A, Aug. 17, should have

The Maritime Administration wants to sell 12 obsolete reserve fleet vessels that will be scrapped in

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,200-$1,300per ton lots &

A group of ex-airline employees plan to start a new, no-frills $99 air shuttle service next month be

US TO START FOOD AIRLIFT TO WAR-TORN SOMALIANAIROBI, Kenya - The United States will begin a

Unfazed by gloomy forecasts, Finnish companies are pursuing the Russian market again, reviving expor

Finnish businessmen are looking for a Russian tonic to cure their Soviet hangover. The forme

Lawmakers are investigating why State Farm Group has suspended writing new auto policies in Texas.

Jack Tilley was named senior vice president of the company's steamship agency, stevedoring and wareh

NORTH AMERICA ISC Expo East: International Security Conference & Exposition East. Aug. 25-27

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RESELLER Rack_Prices are in cents per gallon Unleaded Mid- Premium-Un

Exxon Corp. Tuesday continued its heavy buying of New York harbor spot gasoline following an unsched

Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing the lowest and highest pric

Construction is about to begin at the Port of Grays Harbor on a $750,000 warehouse for use by a comp

Serbia's 1992-93 sugar harvest is likely to meet domestic needs, but civil war and the United Nation

Norton Strommen may not be a household name, but when the chief meteorologist for the U.S. Departmen

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago8/18 8/17 Change % Change: 7/24

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 200.18 up0.58 which comp

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

FREIGHT CAR ORDERS JUMPED IN 2ND QUARTEROrders for new freight cars during the second quarte

A group of oil companies, renewing its battle to work an oil field off the California coast, is blas

The Federal Maritime Commission is tentatively scheduled to determine the fate of a capacity-cutting

The Philippine government has asked the International Monetary Fund to increase the country's budget

The "front-loading" of Japanese public works spending is on schedule but has yet to show up in const

The depreciation of the U.S. dollar against the deutsche mark has eased western German inflationary

The average hourly wages index for western Germany rose 7.2 percent in Aprilfrom the same pe

International Petroleum Exchange Aug. 18, 1992Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Farmers throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin can expect large harvests this fall, providing the slow-g

An official decision on China's move to become a member of the Association of Tin Producing Countrie

FORMOSA PLASTICS REPORTS PROFIT INCREASETAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Corp. pos

A Mexican citizen has been arrested and charged with attempting to bribe two employees of a Huntingd

Record manufactured exports and record imports left Brazil a July trade surplus of $1.5 billion, a 7

Trailer sales in Mexico are expected to rise faster than new truck sales now that a free-trade treat

THREE LINES TO HIKE US-E. AFRICA CHARGESNEW YORK - Three steamship lines plying the

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U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills Monday night told Republicans and a national television audien

Exporters in Bangladesh are banding together to press the government for a host of concessions and b

To sell the North American free-trade deal to millions of wary, recession- battered Canadians, Prime