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Florida Insurance Commissioner Bill Nelson has ordered a public hearing to consider Allstate Insuran

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QUAKE LOSS ESTIMATES REACH $11.7 BILLIONRAHWAY, N.J. - The figure for damages sustai

GENERAL RE REPORTS NET INCOME INCREASESTAMFORD, Conn. - General Re Corp. reported an

Port operators, barge lines and other industry officials dependent on the Army Corps of Engineers fo

U.S. importers of Chinese underwear are being squeezed for the second year in a row as the U.S. gove

The Department of Transportation will give shippers and transportation companies another 90 days to

Truckers Thursday partially ended their strike against ship lines serving civil war-plagued Guatemal

Lloyd's Register, the ship classification society, plans to set up another China representative offi

US MINESWEEPERS DUE IN PERSIAN GULF, PACIFICThe U.S. Navy plans to station minesweeping ship

Maersk Line, of Denmark, and Oriental Overseas Container Line, Hong Kong, joined the queue waiting t

Japan vowed Thursday to file a case with the World Trade Organization as soon as the United States r

The Port of Singapore, once viewed as a relatively monolithic and inflexible agency, has made major

While ocean carriers have been publicly pushing for a delay in rules on overweight containers on Ame

More ships and bigger ships are on the horizon, and they are casting shadows on the rate and port sc

Shipping lines serving South America are facing the same problem that forced Lykes BrosSteamship Co.

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The New York Mercantile Exchange, fearing undue volatility in its gasoline futures trading, filed su

When a quartet of Philadelphia punk rockers decided to name their band for a mental-illness drug, li

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"The United States' practice will do no good to a settlement of the problem (of terrorism) and will

Top Clinton administration officials are trying to rally the U.S. business community against efforts

A merger of two major Midwestern power producers may illustrate the future of the electric utility i

Partisan lines were drawn Thursday on extending fast-track trade negotiating authority to President

MEXICO NEARLY DOUBLED TRADE SURPLUS IN MARCHMexico notched a $460 million trade surplus in M

Thursday May 11, 1995 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

South Africa's producer price index climbed to its highest level in three and a half years when it r

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 231.18 up 0.17

May 11, 1995 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150per ton lots &

International Petroleum Exchange May 11, 1995Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)_

Everybody says, "make a global marketing plan." But just exactly how do youput one together?

Trade leads supplied by: U.S. Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service<

FEDEX DAILY VOLUME GREW 16 PERCENT IN APRILMEMPHIS - Federal Express Corp. said its

British Airways said it has opened a new facility at Heathrow Airport to handle premium products.

The United States has rejected a Colombian proposal to revise banana export quotas to Europe.

Pratt & Whitney Engine Co. has signed a US$12-million joint-venture agreement with Taiwan's China Ai

When the advent of digital CD players in the early 1980s severely diminished the market for vinyl LP

The recent sharp appreciation of the yen against the U.S. dollar could provide new opportunities to

South Korea is likely to witness a substantial increase in foreign-car sales, but overseas producers