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A late thaw this year has reduced volume in sections of the Great Lakes so significantly that port o

West Coast longshore workers may stop working Monday if negotiations for a three-year contract are n

BRITISH PRUDENTIALTO SPIN OFF UNITLONDON - British insurer Prudential Corp. PLC will sell sh

A bill prohibiting discrimination by insurers and HMOs against victims of domestic violence has been

June 26, 1996RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unle

Jack Ramirez will succeed Lowell R. Beck as president and chief executive. Mr. Ramirez joined the NA

French reinsurer Scor, following French insurer Axa, said Tuesday it will list its shares on the New

Wednesday June 26, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

Analysts are somewhat bullish about the future of the cattle industry, which is currently suffering

June 26, 1996No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%B

TOTAL BEGINS DRILLINGOFFSHORE IRAN FIELDSTEHRAN - France's Total has begun drilling operatio

New York Mercantile Exchange - June 26, 1996Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High L

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,300-$1,500 per ton lots

As of June 26, 1996Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 247.71 off 1.31 w

June 26, 1996Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

International Petroleum ExchangeJune 26, 1996 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

June 26, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

U.S. crude oil inventories rose by 1.4 million barrels during the week ended June 21, compared with

Japanese government officials said on Wednesday they expect to meet fraud investigators from Britain

MEXICAN TRUCKERSCALL TRUCE - FOR NOWMEXICO CITY - Mexican truckers have called a 72-hour tru

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Japanese and U.S. negotiators met in Paris on Tuesday to wrestle over time-tabling issues surroundin

Reliance Group Holdings Inc. said Wednesday its Reliance Insurance Co. subsidiary will add $134 mill

Japan is taking a hard line into today's air negotiations with the Clinton administration, insisting

The people who investigate the world's maritime disasters say they are moving closer to their long-c

The House didn't get to debate next year's proposed $1.3 billion Superfund budget Tuesday, giving in

Having endured two months of demonstrations and lawsuits by truck drivers, harbor trucking companies

Prefabricated aluminum-frame structures have been airlifted to trouble spots before.They've

When British theater critic Ken Tynan described his first marriage, he said, ''Our teeth were buried

California's novel $10.5 billion earthquake insurance plan received a major boost when the Internal

The deadly bombing of a military complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday - the second in the count

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Wednesday, June 26, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Lampooned as a pipe dream when first suggested in 1994, a proposal to have electronic clearance acro

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

The U.S. dollar rose close to its highest level of the year against the Japanese yen Wednesday, as J

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, June 30, '95, - June 26, '96 (a graph)*

TAIWANESE OFFICIALWILL VISIT CANADATAIPEI - Taiwan's top China policymaker and its chief neg

A federal judge slapped a Seattle man with a four-year prison sentence for selling over $2.1 million