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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly are no longer simply characters long consigned to Hollywood's movie a

Home builders have nothing to fear from the stock market crash and aren't likely to have to deal wit

Major European coal importers are involved in contract negotiations that are likely to result in the

The Maritime Administration has released a series of nine technical reports examining aspects of the

Bremen has its back to the wall. Its 16 percent unemployment rate is double the national ave

The Mexican government's policy of devaluing the country's peso to help reduce the nation's worrisom

Vitro, Mexico's biggest glass manufacturer, was one of the first to recover after the country's stoc

Congress has greatly improved the chances of implementing the Harmonized Commodity Description and C

A white paper released at the weekend emphasizes the need for Japan to upgrade efforts to improve th

Some U.S. tourists will pay a premium to ride working freighters to places cruise ships don't go.

Lloyd's of London brokers, dissatisfied with the insurance coverage available for their own errors a

Phillips Petroleum Posts Drop in NetPhillips Petroleum Co. reported earnings of $31 million,

Fri., Oct. 23, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

International Conference on Political Risk. Oct. 26-27. Sponsored by Frost and Sullivan Political Ri

Top Stories: Some U.S. ports are tightening up spending for major capital projects despite the gener

"Commodities" is one of those catch-all words that mean little to most non- specialists. The

Royce Associates Inc., makers of specialty chemical products, has a special knack for saving on its

Teknor Color Co., a subsidiary of Teknor Apex Co., purchased the assets and business of Plasticolors

Teamsters Union Seeks To Rejoin AFL-CIOThe Teamsters union, expelled from the AFL-CIO 30 yea

The Philippines' major revisions to its program for the conversion of debt into equity are helping t

The U.S. Customs Service's acceptance of coffee with or without International Coffee Organization ce

Importers and exporters say the turmoil on Wall Street last week won't affect business, at least in

The U.S. economy is headed for a slowdown, at the very least, in the wake of the stock market's hist

If a fish doesn't cough when released in a water sample at the nation's largest center for freshwate

Rolling hills, sprawling horse farms and the trappings of country gentry still give this fast growin

The largest-ever convention of officials of short-line and regional railroads convened here Sunday,

An economic colossus signs a free trade agreement with a much smaller close ally, and leaders of the

The Reagan administration is considering the elimination of duty-free benefits for five major develo

Top Stories: The Liability Risk Retention Act of 1986, aimed at reducing the affordability and avail

Importers Warned On Clay PotteryThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration has asked the Customs

The largest spot market contract awarded by the Tennessee Valley Authority during the week of Oct. 1

Potomac Earnings Rose $8 Million in QuarterPotomac Electric Power Co. earned $109.7 million,

El Paso Electric Co. said that it had reached a compromise with the staff of the Texas Public Utilit

The president of the Seafarers International Union claims provisions in the proposed U.S.-Canada Fre

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

The local farmers may think they're loony, but scientists at Tuskegee University are trying to devel

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

U.S. and Japanese business executives jointly asked their governments to act to correct the mounting

More than 150 U.S. companies have pulled their investments out of racially segregated South Africa i

Jardine Terminates Bid for Broker StakeNEW YORK - Jardine Strategic Holdings Ltd. said that,