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China's inflationary fever soared like the temperature in late summer, sending a distinct chill thro

Oct. 17, 1994 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 228.26 up 0.72 whi

India, one of the world's largest gold consumers, is expected to import a record 300 metric tons of

Hong Kong investors are eagerly taking advantage of China's invitation to move to new parts of China

1838 (Oct. 17, 1994) Previous day - 1827 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has accused an influential Connecticut lobbyist of transferring

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GLOSSARY AR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

Greek and Turkish shipowners pledged last week to fight together against restrictive practices that

Sun State Marine Inc., a 55-year-old tug and barge company based in Green Cove Springs, has a new ow

State-run Dredging Corp. of India Ltd. is planning to revamp its business to compete with mounting o

The following is the list of bunker prices obtained during the course of week ending Oct. 14, 1994.

Insurance companies may soon have access to an electronic bulletin board that lists all the homeowne

Travelers Insurance Co., the primary life-insurance subsidiary of financial services company Travele

The Colonial Penn Insurance Co. of Valley Forge, Pa., and the Alerion Insurance Co. of Fairlawn, N.J

PHILIPS SUBSIDIARY SOLD TO UAP UNITAMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Philips, the Dutch consumer elec

NET RISES, REVENUE DIPS AT POE & BROWN AGENCYTAMPA, Fla. - Insurance agency Poe & Br

AMERICAN RE-INSURANCE CO. (Princeton, N.J.) - Kenneth W. Kaczmarek and Byron E. Wilson were appointe

New Jersey's highest court overruled a lower court and dropped four Canadian insurers and a Michigan

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. of Japan and Hyundai Merchant Marine of South Korea likely will hammer ou

Countries of the Asian subcontinent are making strenuous efforts to push exports into the Middle Eas

A surge in auto inventories pushed U.S. business inventories up 1 percent in August to a seasonally

The number of unemployed persons in Sweden fell by 37,000 in September, to 346,000, or 8.1 percent o

Carmine Ragucci and his partners will face a three-month deadline to find a tenant for the long-shut

Police and fishermen battling turbulent seas in the Bay of Bengal said Monday they had found 75 bodi

FAMILIES SUING SHELL IN FATAL TANKER BLASTKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Shell Oil said Mo

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REGIONAL BLOCS Third Annual Global Marketing Conference. Oct. 19. Tampa, Fla. Contac

With Halloween fast approaching, lifting the lid on the lucrative winter holiday season, worried can

Jose Delgado and Rolando Zepeda return to the Patricia after a grocery run and idle away time in thi

The European Union Commission has pulled back from launching an antitrust action against a controver

A proposal from marine insurers to clamp down on claims caused by blatant negligence brought an angr

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The battle between the two largest U.S. railroads for control of Santa Fe Pacific Corp.will be decid

Four of the nation's leading shipyards will abandon the Shipbuilders Council of America on Dec. 31,

Companies providing ocean-freight rate information are slowly entering the age of the personal compu

(1) DAILY INDEX * Annual Smoothed percent +16.0410/7 108.510/11 107.510

MOL IMPORTS IRON, STEEL FOR SHIPBUILDINGSHANGHAI, China - Officials said Japan's Mit

In a Page 1A story Wednesday, Oct. 12, about Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) moving cargo over