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NIPPON LIFE INSURANCE CO.Ikuo Uno will assume the presidency of Japan's largest life insurer

AETNA REORGANIZING COSTSLED TO LOSS IN QUARTERHARTFORD, Conn. - Aetna Inc. reported a loss o

The Clinton administration's fiscal 1998 budget offers a mixed bag for exporterswith funding cuts in

Sen. Ernest Hollings got some company this week in his crusade to force the Clinton administration t

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Feb. 9, 1996, - Feb. 6, 1997, (a graph)*

EU URGES POLANDTO LIBERALIZE TRADEWARSAW - The European Union's trade commissioner criticize

Despite profit-taking and a stronger British pound, the dollar managed to hold onto gains late Thurs

Importers along the U.S.-Mexico border have access to a confusing menu of options for clearing their

U.S.-Russian trade ties are improving, a senior U.S. official said Thursday, as Russian Prime Minist

The head of General Motors Corp.'s North American operations blasted Japan's government and central

''I don't think you can find any fourth-grade math teacher or any Ph.D. in math that can make these

Bangladesh hopes to make its currency fully convertible in fiscal 1998, beginning next June, a senio

The U.S. protest this week over Russia's sale of nuclear reactors to India is being seen as an echo

Software giant Microsoft Corp. is taking a Canadian computer company to court in a copyright infring

IRAQI MINISTER TO MEETWITH UN SECURITY PANELNEW YORK - Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed

The best-kept secrets of the diamond world - the size of Russia's stockpile and its sales on the ope

South Florida's business community is asking for meetings with top federal and state officials next

The International Monetary Fund will begin a review today of the Philippine government's implementat

Ecuador's militant trade unions, which launched a 48-hour general strike Wednesday, said Thursday th

Russia's chief steel negotiator in the current round with the European Union has warned European ste

In keeping with its general overhaul of regulations on intellectual property rights, Hong Kong is se

Skandia, the Swedish insurer, made history a few weeks ago when it became the first company to place

Legislators, emboldened by a critical audit of South Carolina's auto insurance system, are talking a

Hawaii's drivers could have their auto insurance rates rolled back 25 percent to 30 percent under a

SHIPSCREW THAT RAN AGROUNDWAITED TO CALL FOR HELPMIAMI - Six hours passed be

Air freight is taking off worldwide, but experts say difficult international relations and strained

A project to deepen shipping channels at the Port of Oakland is continuing as scheduled, despite the

A new inland pricing structure in Europe is being tested by members of the Trans-Atlantic Conference

It seems like such a long time ago that Overnite Transportation Co. was known for two things: being

SENATE PANEL OKS SLATERFOR TRANSPORT SECRETARYWASHINGTON - The Senate Commerce Committee Wed

Atlantic Container Line, the trans-Atlantic carrier, almost doubled profit last year.The com

An official with Canadian Pacific Railway Wednesday said allegations that the railways are to blame

An investigation by the European Commission into alleged illegal subsidies to Danish shipyards invol

Norfolk Southern Corp. Wednesday advanced its bid to acquire Conrail Inc. by buying nearly 10 percen

Downriver log barging from the shallow-water Port of Clarkston, Wash., on the Snake River, could exp

TWA BOARD OF DIRECTORSWARNED OF POSSIBLE SUITST. LOUIS - The 15,000 owner-employees of TWA h

Trucking companies that haul agricultural products are pushing an innovative plan to prevent driver

Five months after arriving at the Jacksonville Port Authority, Chief Executive Officer and President

An American sailor was rescued in the South Atlantic by a British Royal Navy frigate after she fell

PORT ARTHUR PORT POSTEDRECORD TONNAGE FOR '96PORT ARTHUR, Texas - The Port of Port Arthur po