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Lisbon is engaged in a bold gamble to become a major container transshipment and merchandise distrib

Senate Democrats may make the insurance industry itself, not tort reform, a primary investigative ta

Leadership of the American Insurance Association is reassessing whether to continue major financial

The stock market had the stuffing knocked out of it early last week, but came strutting right back.

While Greece had another relatively good trading month in September, the improvement was less than h

The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council possesses aggregate oil reserves of 304.5 billion barrels, o

Oil prices slipped below $15 a barrel at the close of trading Friday amid signs that Kuwait and Saud

The head of the union that represents shipboard engineers said the country faces a crisis because of

The U.S. Export-Import Bank last week said it is considering $20 million in credit support for the J

Some 800 gallons of radioactive water leaked into a closed outdoor tank at the Three Mile Island Un

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

General Motors' Debt Downgraded by S&PStandard & Poor's lowered the ratings of General Motor

Matson Navigation Co. added its objections to the many already made to proposed changes in the secre

Signs are growing here and in other rural areas that a five-year slide in the farm economy is slowin

Friday, Nov. 21, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Government officials in Argentina predict this year's balance of trade surplus will fall by almost

Union Texas Selling Interest in PropertiesUnion Texas Petroleum reported that it has agreed

The New York Power Authority urged the state government to provide legislation enabling the utility

The volume of British-owned merchant shipping tonnage operating on overseas registers will exceed th

The Federal Maritime Commission refused to reconsider its decision to require Matson Navigation Co.

William Bolitho, one of Australia's leading shipping executives, described moves to deregulate Austr

The TransPacific Westbound Rate Agreement, a rate-making conference of 14 shipping lines that operat

Port authorities cannot afford to sit back passively while port labor negotiations are under way, ac

The state's utility companies stand to pay smaller federal tax bills under the nation's new tax code

Shippers and industry observers attending the 79th annual National Industrial Transportation League

The earnings recovery in the U.S. insurance market may have taken place too rapidly for the improvem

The union representing Flying Tiger Line's pilots said its door is "still open" for negotiations, bu

The British government intends to pass a consumer protection law by next spring that will introduce

Rafael Quesada spent nine years at sea and saw his share of bad storms, including one off the East C

Rapid Transit District Under Insurance ProbeThe district attorney's office is investigating

The New York State Public Service Commission published the first Chinese version of its rights guide

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange intends to seek approval to revise margining procedures for its opti

China will harvest 390 million metric tons of grain this year, up 10 million metric tons from last y

South Korea on Friday renewed its call on North Korea to immediately cease" the construction of a hy

Real growth in plastics additives consumption in Western Europe will decline over the next decade to

The U.K. government will decide shortly whether to allow private companies to operate coal-fired pow

The First Interstate Bank of California is in the final stages of negotiations with Peru for repayme

More rail/truck mergers will follow Union Pacific Corp.'s purchase of Overnite Transportation Co., a

Trade representatives from 20 countries agreed on a new code aimed at preventing governments from di

McLean Industries' stock closed Friday at $1.875, down $1 in the wake of news that the company lost