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Top Venezuelan finance officials are traveling to several industrial nations to present Venezuela's

Stocks rose in heavy trading Tuesday to a second straight record close, but the pace of the advance

President Reagan's proposal to make massive cuts in farm commodity programs and other economies in t

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission voted to end the pilot program status of options on agricul

World sugar production in 1986-87 will be 100.2 million metric tons, representing a 500,000-metric-

Denmark's Maersk Lines is negotiating the takeover of the French shipping concern Chargeurs Reunis,

All hotels in this U.S. Commonwealth are to be inspected immediately for compliance with safety regu

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

Iraq's oil output is expected to reach an unprecedented wartime record of 2.5 million barrels daily

Japan's Marubeni Corp. concluded a long-term contract with Australia's Wesfarmers Ltd. to import 13

Japan's foreign exchange reserves skyrocketed to an all-time high of $42.2 billion by the end of Dec

TRADE REFORM. Members of the Long Island Area Development Agency and several other regional Long Isl

It was not quite two years ago that the International Air Transport Association's Cargo Agency Board

Jamaica's economy, one of the biggest in the Caribbean, is growing more slowly than the government e

Top European Community trade negotiator Willy de Clercq is due in Washington later this month for ta

General Electric Co. is refusing to pay claimed compensation for damage in a nuclear power plant cau

DIVERSITY: THE SPICE OF LIFE. Port of Los Angeles Harbor Commission meetings offer something for eve

Driscoll Is Leaving Ore. Commissioner PostJosephine Driscoll, leaving office as Oregon insur

Oil exploration in Kenya is to receive a major boost in 1987 as U.S. and European oil companies move

It's a story often repeated in the energy industry: A producing company cannot sell natural gas beca

Crowley May Start New Barge ServiceCrowley Maritime Corp. said it may start a new barge serv

Senators, congressmen, a mayor and a governor showed up for day one of a hearing before a federal ad

Truck safety will decline under California's new motor carrier regulations, the California Trucking

If the United States goes ahead with increased duties on European gin, brandy, white wines, cheeses

Auto parts will be the Brazilian export hardest hit by Washington's decision last week to eliminate

Prospects for U.S. budget deficits to remain at high levels mean the growth- sapping trade deficit w

The fate of Korea Shipping Corp. remains undecided as South Korea's oldest and largest container lin

Thai maize exports last year rose 22 percent from a year earlier to a record 3,771,434 tons, the nat

Confirmation from Hapag-Lloyd, the West German shipping line, that its North Atlantic services will

Australian shipping officials are generally agreed that 1987 will be a tough year for the industry,

Grain exports declined 54 percent through Baltimore's three major elevators, and industry observers

Gulf Shipping Normal After Helicopter AttackMANAMA, Bahrain Merchant navigation in the so

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

Pratt & Lambert Inc. acquired Universe Paint Co., of Marysville, Calif. (Sacramento) for an undisclo

Hercules Inc. announced that it will not proceed with its previously announced tenderoffer for any a

Soviets, Finland to Sign Nuclear Accident PactHELSINKI, Finland - The Soviet Union and Finla

Adler & Shaykin entered into a letter of intent to sell its Joy Manufacturing Co. petroleum equipmen

OPEC-Mandated Prices Cost Kuwait 2 ContractsMANAMA, Bahrain - The Kuwait Petroleum Corp. can

China, the world's fourth-largest producer of steel, is planning heavyinvestments in the ind

Port of Grays Harbor officials are breathing easier now that the president's fiscal 1988 budget incl