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EQUITABLE BUYSDELAWARE INSURERDES MOINES, Iowa - Equitable of Iowa Cos. completed its purcha

The first of China's new national life insurance companies appears to have been approved slightly ah

California's Insurance Department will lay off 95 of its 1,134 employees, with the Consumer Services

Maine's highest court Tuesday threw out a Fairfield man's $817,000 breach-of-contract judgment again

Another barrier has dropped between state-chartered banks and life insurers.At its monthly m

SWISS RE AMERICA IN BLACKFOR FIRST HALF AFTER '95 LOSSNEW YORK - Swiss Re America Corp. repo

Anita Benedetti, deputy executive director of the Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc., died T

A U.S. Customs Service program designed to revolutionize export data handling and improve enforcemen

For the first time, businesses will soon have a single contact point to help them tap the World Bank

The sun is beginning its descent toward the Pacific Ocean, as Jose surveys a vast expanse of rubble

SHIPDRY-CARGO SHIPOWNERSCOMPILE TERMINAL REGISTERLONDON - A register of terminals th

Six Greenpeace activists spent about 36 hours chained to the world's largest log barge last week in

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Sea-Land Service Inc. hopes to avoid joining the list of famous victims stopped by the Russian winte

Liner services can go worldwide - their prices can't.Rather, their pricing system can't.That

On your mark. Get set. Tax!!All across the country, lawmakers from cash-hungry states, count

Tuesday, Aug. 13, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Despite the beginnings of a recovery being seen in the trucking industry, new orders for heavy truck

MAURITANIA SEIZESHUGE HEROIN SHIPMENTNOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - Mauritanian police seized 6.75

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

The U.S. dollar declined slightly Tuesday, following the bond market lower.Tuesday's July co

A small fire in the cockpit of an American Airlines jet forced an emergency landing, officials said

Four automotive powers Tuesday started the first round of consultations in a World Trade Organizatio

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(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Aug. 18, '95 - Aug. 13, '96 (a graph)* A

A graphic appearing on Page 1A of the Aug. 9 edition of The Journal of Commerce should have listed P

Two trains carrying badly needed raw materials to a White Pine, Mich., copper mine Tuesday ran over

CSX TRANSPORTATIONRaymond L. Sharp was appointed vice president of coal sales and marketing

CALIFORNIA HERMESSTILL ON FIRELONDON - The container carrier California Hermes was still on

Ampace Corp., a holding company formed last year to acquire truckload carriers, has signed an agreem

Tanker owners tried to achieve economies of scale in the oil trades by building huge ships in excess

The Clinton administration will mount a ''full court press'' to make this year's Middle East/North A

DAEWOO GROUP WINSTELECOM CONTRACTSEOUL - South Korea's Daewoo Business Group said Tuesday it

Maersk Inc., of Copenhagen, one of the world's largest container operators, has won a contract to mo

''The unions, the trial lawyers, the liberals, and the Washington bureaucrats - and their allies in

Trucks aren't pulling their weight in paying off the cost of the year-old international bridge linki

Taiwan's high-speed rail route along the heavily populated west coast will probably be stalled until

SAN JUAN-MIDWESTCAPACITY EXPANDS AT LEPSAN JUAN - LEP Profit International Inc. expanded its

Despite recent reforms in Russia, U.S. food and drink exporters still can't break into one of the la

Aug. 13, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low