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Thailand's national airline, Thai Airways International, is seeking to cancel a purchase order for t

European Union finance ministers backed plans by Greece and Denmark to link their currencies to the

FUTURES - September 30, 1998 OPEN INTEREST AND SALES - September 29, 1998All life

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 203.30 off 0.41

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Nov. 21, 1997 - Oct. 1, 1998 (a graph)*

Much-anticipated legislation to deregulate container shipping - after years of debate, drafting and

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, exporters in unified Germany worked hard to rebuild commerce with

The U.S. International Trade Commission is being asked to recommend tariffs and quotas on imported l

Commercial banks and insurance agents have reworked a key section of a pending banking reform bill,

International insurers must abandon government confrontation for a common-sense approach to maximize

Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp., the operating subsidiary of Kaiser Aluminum Corp., Thursday said o

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,500-$1,600 per ton lo

A routine inspection by Mexican law enforcement authorities at the Port of Manzanillo turned up equi

The British government is threatening to reclaim franchises from poorly performing private railway c

Even before the first plane has taken off, All Nippon Airways Co. has announced plans to expand its

As of October 1, 1998Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from

Canadian steel producers were preparing anti-dumping complaints against several countries this week,

As soon as the polling concludes Sunday, speculation will mount on a question that has been looming

'We may need to begin some serious bilateral discussions, because this cannot continue.'

Key movements in 20-foot ocean container unitsJun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. M

Britain's gas industry broke into the $100 billion continental European market Thursday with the ope

Allstate Corp. has sold its portfolio of investment properties, totaling 10 million square feet, to

The U.S. Supreme Court this week agreed to review an appellate court decision that workers compensat

The Yokohama Commodity Exchange, formed by the merger of the Maebashi Dried Cocoon and Yokohama Raw

Bombs exploded in Ecuador and Peru's presidential palace was overrun by demonstrators as thousands o

India's second cold-storage cargo terminal opened for operation this week in the southern city of Ba

German credit insurer Hermes, which handles government-backed export guarantees, has signed a mutual

DHL Worldwide Express has won a contract to transport small packages on trans-Atlantic and trans-Pac

Wednesday Sept. 30, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represen

Iraq's Trade Minister Mohammad Mehdi Saleh headed to Tehran Wednesday for trade talks in the latest

Hurricane Georges has blown through and now port officials along the Gulf Coast are assessing the da

The prospect is breathtaking: to keep its economy rolling, China will need to make $750 billion in n

Late last year, many market watchers became worried that China displayed all the signs of the ''Asia

As of Sept. 30,1998Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

Sept. 30, 1998Baltic international Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Lo

China faces an increasingly difficult challenge in reforming its massive, and largely loss-making, p

Allianz ''is not interested in buying a bank,'' said Joachim Faber, finance director of Allianz's li

House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley announced that he negotiated a compromise agreement

A group of U.S. steel producers filed trade complaints Wednesday asking for sharp increases in U.S.

Since September 1997, Japanese banks gave up a total of 16 bank licenses in Hong Kong, a Hong Kong M