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Stock prices drifted lower in lackluster trading Wednesday as sellers predominated following Tuesday

Construction activity edged up 0.3 percent in May as gains in construction of factories and office b

Emery Boosts Price Of PlasticizersEmery Chemicals has announced price increases for eleven p

In a bipartisan vote, the House Appropriations Committee Wednesday reported out fiscal 1988 transpor

Iraq said its jet fighters raided a large ship off Iran's coast Wednesday, a day after an Iranian gu

FAA General Aviation Facility in Maine OpenBANGOR, Maine - The Federal Aviation Administrati

Arab states in the Persian Gulf have agreed to provide more logistical support for U.S. naval forces

Marad Awards Pacts To Upgrade Navy ShipsThe Maritime Administration awarded contracts totali

Tanzania's principal port, Dar es Salaam, is in the midst of an ambitious $150 million program to mo

As the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz pulls into Puget Sound for its temporary West Coast home, the Nav

Local telephone charges went up 60 cents a month Wednesday, while American Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Members of the Caribbean Economic Community will dismantle all barriers to regionally produced goods

House and Senate conferees on banking legislation moved toward final agreement Wednesday by tentativ

Thomas W. "Teddy" Gleason may be leaving the top job at the International Longshoremen's Association

The Interior Department issued new guidelines under which coal companies mining on federal lands wil

U.S. Competitive Position Establishing a competitive international position is a "very serio

Hong Kong's continued ties between its dollar and its U.S. counterpart could backfire, even though i

Moves to sell all or part of San Francisco-based Hibernia Bank are dictated by strategic considerati

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

July 1 Baltic International Freight Futures ExchangePrev.Close High Low

American Carriers Inc. took a bold step last week when the truck line announced its plan to buy bele

Ten years after the United States agreed to turn control of the Panama Canal over to Panama at the e

The Swiss Supreme Court, setting a precedent, ruled Wednesday that Swiss judicial authorities can as

Japanese exports of cars, trucks and buses fell 8.3 percent in May from a year ago - the fourth cons

The Interior Department on Tuesday endorsed a bill to subject all onshore federal oil leases to comp

US Computer Firm Opens Singapore PlantCompaq Computer Corp. said it has opened a printed cir

Traditional Exports To the United States: Heavy industrials, chemicals, electronic equipment

Airports waging the competitive battle for passenger fares will raise the white flag when developing

Intermodal business continues to ride the tide of high imports despite pessimistic growth forecasts

The Prudential Insurance Co. of America wants no part of a bankruptcy court deal to sell United Stat

The Senate voted Wednesday to strike from its trade bill a provision which would have required the p

Trinidad and Tobago has banned garment imports, except those produced by its neighbors in the Caribb

Companies based in the Southeast continue to out-perform their national counterparts, according to J

State insurance regulators blasted Washington for even thinking of regulating the insurance business

The Norwegian government is still deciding how to respond to the U.S. Senate vote calling for a ban

Trading Begins On MBIA StockWHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Trading on MBIA Inc.'s initial public offer

Legislation allowing banks to expand into insurance was vetoed this week by Gov. Richard Bryan.<

Oil Minister Sheik Ali Khalifa al-Sabah says Kuwait's new oil production quota of 996,000 barrels a

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted unanimously to give a full- poweroperati ng license to Nine

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc