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Pan American Taps Effman,RunnettePan American World Airways and its parent, Pan Am C

The 1 percent drop in the government's January index of leading economic indicators confirmed a slug

General Motors Corp.'s financing arm is offering $25 billion in already approved credit to more than

U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter has threatened to retaliate if the European Community puts

Contrasting statements on investment in priority sectors such as tourism and rail roads reflect inte

Chrysler Corp. should gain a psychological advantage on both sides of the Atlantic when it re-enters

NEW YORK - The United States is tied with Japan for sixth place among the world's nine major industr

Arco asked the U.S. Court of Appeals to reconsider a January decision casting a pall over the Depart

The Canadian government on Monday selected a Canadian builder for a giant icebreaker to help defend

The Soviet Union is buying more grain from the United States and will buy even more as long as U.S.

Western Canada's largest shipyard has been cut off from a once-promising business refitting auxilia

Freighter Carrying Dynamite AbandonedCHERBOURG, France - A Danish freighter carrying 400 ton

A federal bankruptcy court approved the sale of four smaller United States Lines vessels to the Mari

It took an extra month for the governor of Washington to get answers to his environmental questions

The new rail ferry link between Gothenburg, Sweden, and Frederikshavn, Denmark, will start operating

Like most major shipping companies, Compagnie Maritime Belge SA (CMB), Belgium's largest shipowner,

Beneficial Corp. said it reached an agreement in principle to sell its financially-troubled American

The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee called U.S. trade policy unharmonious and called

Persons with contagious diseases are handicapped and protected from job lossbecause of the

Lots of managers of foreign truck companies' U.S. operations are out on the street. The doll

Fred. S. James Buys A&A's Boise OfficeFred. S. James & Co. said it acquired the Boise, Idaho

A Rhode Island business group sees only further deterioration in the state's workers compensation pr

The Reagan administration came out firmly in the corner of business in the argument over who owns ex

Citing unrealized 1986 internal financial goals, Cigna Corp. says it will likely lay off some of its

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

A rebound by the recently depressed oil issues Tuesday enlivened an otherwise listless, lackluster s

The U.S. dollar fluctuated erratically within a narrow trading range Tuesday, leading analysts to de

Policyholders' complaints about the handling of their claims on household insurance accounted for mo

Richard J. Mahoney, 53, Monsanto Co.'s chairman and chief executive officer, has cleared much of the

Combined pretax profits earned by major Japanese firms in the fiscal year ending March 31, 1988, wil

The world's mainstream liner trades face more shock waves" this year if United States Lines' 12 gian

Swiss Banks Raise Some Deposit RatesThe four big Swiss banks raised their rates on 3- to 8-m

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

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

Tuesday, March 3, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Japanese Banks Seek Financial Futures MartYoshiro Araki, chairman of Japan's Federation of B

The U.S. reiterated its proposal for a copper producer-consumer forum designed to develop markets fo

Tokyo natural rubber stocks at warehouses designated by Tokyo Commodities Exchange for industry tota

Breaux May Get Post WASHINGTON - Sen. John Breaux, D-La., appears to be headed for the chair

Coffee prices should stabilize around 105-115 U.S. cents a pound, basis the second position on the L