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A British life insurance company, Sun Life Assurance PLC, is linking up with the French composite in

Inflation in China can be a bit like the Oriental Water Torture or the Death by a Thousand Cuts port

Oil prices sank below $14 a barrel Monday as oil producers soberly remembered 1986, when the price s

Shares of stock for Knight-Ridder Inc. were scheduled to begin trading today on the Tokyo Stock Exch

The Tennessee Valley Authority said it paid prices ranging from $31.67 a ton to $23.80 a ton for spo

JAPAN ENDS RESTRICTIONS ON IRANIAN OIL IMPORTSJapan's trade ministry has decided to abolish

EDEN AIR EXTENDS SERVICES IN EUROPEIRVINE, Calif. - Eden Air Freight has extended services t

In the clash over banking deregulation, New York money center banks have an increasingly big stake,

After a hiatus of more than 20 years, cocoa imports will likely be handled again by mid-October in t

Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp. is expanding its vanadium operations in Soda Springs, Idaho, by 30 percent

Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Elaine L. Chao said she expects the agency's final review of th

U.S. manufacturers' after-tax profits fell to a seasonally adjusted average of 5.8 percent of sales

A key West German minister said Monday that harmonization of the European Community's value-added an

* Import Quota Watch 4A * Commodity Research Bureau - Gold Price Outlook 6A* George W. Grays

The U.S. government may be manipulating the monthly trade deficit numbers in order to calm the finan

The number of businesses owned by Hispanics in the United States is increasing at a rate of 38.3 per

The Federal Maritime Commission staff suggested to the commission several rule changes to pin down t

Federal regulators strongly support permitting bank holding companies to expand into the insurance b

Transworld Oil USA Inc.'s cargo prices for residual fuel oil are posted in The Journal of Commerce

Electric utilities in the European Community kept the faith with coal last year despite increasing c

UNITED AIRLINES (Chicago) - Lawrence M. Nagin has been named senior vice president, corporate and ex

HERCULES RAISES PRICES OF RESINSHercules Inc., Wilmington, Del., will increase list prices o

Plans by Sea-Land Service Inc. and two other ship lines to offer all-water service between the U.S.

The ocean freight futures market drifted down last week, even as current charter rates were rising.<

Nihon Sogo Shoken, Japan's only government bond broker, is poised to be the first Japanese company t

The Bank of Mexico announced the lowest monthly inflation rate in nearly 10 years. Consumer

What began as simply a matter of providing a way to take care of clerical or administrative errors i

You can count on it. EDI growth is going to be very strong for the next few years. So conclu

Lend Lease Trucks's plan to buy the leasing division of Whiteford Transport System is the latest in

You may need a scorecard to keep track of all the new faces at this week's annual meeting of port of

A newly issued report by Lloyd's Register of Shipping suggests that shipowners, showing some optimis

It was nearly midnight when Stephan Spiegelman of Suffern, N.Y., received a call about a truckload o

UTAH UTILITY CONFIRMS NEW OFFER FOR CONTROLUtah Power & Light Co. confirmed that financier I

MSAS Cargo International Inc., one of the world's largest air freight forwarders, plans a major shop

GE Plastics, a division of General Electric Co., announced a $315 million expansion at its polycarbo

Bankers Trust Co., of New York City, asked the Maritime Administration for permission to sell its dr

Insurance costs will rise again for about 800,000 cars and trucks in New Jersey under rate increase

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

The mounting debt burden of Third World nations and ways to ease it emerged as major issues at a mee

Prospects for this year's drought-plagued U.S. corn crop appear to have improved slightly during Aug