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Following a year in which cross trades played their most important role ever, Transportacion Maritim

''I would regard it as a disastrous development if Europe's strength were to diminish with its enlar

Transportacion Maritima Mexicana (TMM), Mexico's largest ship line, finished 1995 with a net income

The once controversial Customs initiative known as remote filing has been working fine since it bega

BANKS BOOST RATESAS JAPAN ROW CONTINUESTOKYO - The lingering Diet standoff over a pl

Inflation in Mexico fell in February, to the relief of the government, but remains on target to exce

Wisconsin Central Ltd. railroad's safety record has come under scrutiny in Great Britain and New Zea

BIG DIG PROJECT CALLEDMOST COSTLY IN HISTORYBOSTON - Massachusetts' embattled Big Dig highwa

Technology-based firms are the preferred sector for nearly four-fifths of all United States venture

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150 per ton lots

Customs Commissioner George Weise told brokers and forwarders meeting in Arizona that the agency wil

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 244.43 up 0.52 w

As of Mar. 8, 1996Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from sup

International Petroleum ExchangeMar. 8, 1996 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Mar. 8, 1996Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

New York Mercantile Exchange - Mar. 8, 1996Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

Commerce officials in Mexico have wrapped up two unfair-trade investigations, clearing U.S. and Cana

The Japanese government is beginning to believe that Indonesia's program to develop a domestic autom

Japan's telecommunications ministry said that Japanese companies use of the Internet stands at 11.7

NIGERIA SEEKS TO ATTRACTFOREIGN INVESTMENTLAGOS, Nigeria - The Nigerian government is offeri

REGIONAL BLOCSOverview of the Brazilian Telecommunications Sector. March 18. New Yor

U.S. steelmakers are choosing to battle Mexican trade penalties through North American Free Trade Ag

Taiwan's defense minister said Friday that the island will fight back in the event of an attack viol

CANADA TO PROMOTEFOOD PRODUCTS IN JAPANTOKYO - Canada is to launch a three-year sale

A Russian military delegation held talks with Argentina's top military chiefs Friday on possible arm

Honduran police Friday seized more than 360 pounds of cocaine in a warehouse used by the U.S. compan

Despite heavy fighting in breakaway Chechnya, the head of an international consortium developing ric

Leading German shipping companies demanded in Hamburg Friday that the European Commission relax its

House members, lagging behind their Senate counterparts, accelerated their efforts last week to put

Environmental groups accused the Clinton administration of caving in to port authorities in proposin

Marsh & McLennan Inc., one of the major U.S. insurance brokers, has opened a representative office i

The board of directors of Zenith National Insurance Corp. said that it has authorized the repurchase

Stung by defections of some of its biggest customers, the U.S. Postal Service is changing classifica

Friday, March 8, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The government will buy Alaskan pink salmon for school lunches and other food aid in an effort to bo

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by Reuter Money Service, are selling rates among

Oil terminals in the Middle East are among some of the worst in the world for providing tankers with

Commerce trade investigators in Mexico have taken final action against Dutch starch exporters, leavi

The Baltic Freight Index is a daily indicator of world bulk shipping freight rate levels.

The U.S. dollar will rise this week, and may hit a high for the year against the Deutsche mark, curr