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American companies are expanding operations in China's offshore energy sector, and announcing new fi

NORTH CAROLINA STATEPORTS AUTHORITYFred Getsinger was named director of the Port of Wilmingt

Amertranz Worldwide Holding Corp. has received a $10 million line of credit from BNY Financial Corp.

Highway and other infrastructure development is expected to get a boost from recent government appro

TRAVELERS LIFE AND ANNUITYMichael R. Zides was appointed vice president and chief marketing

OKLAHOMA SEEKS CUTIN WORKERS COMP RATESOKLAHOMA CITY - The state attorney general's office f

In a sign of further strain within the independent insurance agency system, the executive committee

A major property/casualty insurance association has asked President Clinton to keep American roads c

State Insurance Commissioner Linda S. Kaiser last week approved a 25 percent reduction in workers co

California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush last week threatened to suspend the license of P

The bid for Atlantic Container Line was looking low late Friday as the shipping line's share price s

A World Trade Organization panel has sided with the United States in a dispute over Canada's longsta

The business subsidy programs and tax preferences critics call ''corporate welfare'' are about to be

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Norfolk Southern Vice President James McClellan has pored over railroad maps for most of his 34-year

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The dollar is going to the moon, currency traders and analysts said Friday, as the greenback rockete

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by Reuter Money Service, are selling rates among

Global talks to lower barriers to trade in basic telecommunications services moved forward last week

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The head of the World Trade Organization on Friday appointed former Uruguayan diplomat Julio Lacarte

AIRBUS SIGNS PARTNERSFOR PLANNED JUMBO JETPARIS - European planemaker Airbus Industrie Frida

From a purely propagandist point of view, North Korea could hardly have stumbled upon a better time

''This is par for the course for Lloyd's when we want something. But when they want something it's n

Ira Shapiro, the top U.S. negotiator on trade issues with Japan, said he will leave the Clinton admi

ASIA BANK TO REPLENISHSOFT-LOAN FACILITYTOKYO - The Asian Development Bank and its donor cou

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The Thai government has moved to rescue an ailing economy and stock market by a round of budget cuts

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The United States posted an $8.4 billion trade deficit in November, small enough to encourage Commer

EU HAILS JAPAN'SCOPYRIGHT RULE CHANGEBRUSSELS - The European Union Thursday welcomed the dec

West Coast stevedores have had enough.In a radical departure from past administrations, the

The Clinton administration has spurned an overture by the government of Iran aimed at easing tension

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The Feb. 15 deadline for an agreement scrapping worldwide barriers to the $600 billion global teleco

It's high noon in the bruising three-way fight for control of the Eastern U.S. rail network.

Thomas J. Holt, the head of a family-run Philadelphia-area stevedoring empire, made an offer Thursda

It's decision day for American President Lines Ltd.The nation's second-largest ocean carrier

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