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Honduras is banking on diversifying - both its export products and its export markets - to build up

Iran reluctantly will go along with a rollover of OPEC's 24.52 million- barrel-a-day ceiling into th

Four oil companies filed a petition asking the California Superior Court in Sacramento to set aside

Booming Southeast Asian economies with expanding construction, telecommunication, packaging and elec

Strong corn prices amid the tightest U.S. stocks in nearly 20 years and a 0 percent set-aside will b

New York Mercantile Exchange - Mar. 9, 1994 Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High Low

Net oil exports from the former Soviet Union should remain steady at 1.8 million barrels a day in th

The confusion remains. French officials said Wednesday that the problems of fish inspections

Wednesday, March 9, 1994 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York and other sources, are selling r

The United States and more than 40 other countries failed this week to conclude negotiations for a $

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

HARTFORD STEAM BOILER (Hartford, Conn.) - John J. Kelley was named senior vice president and will co

Shippers continued their almost unbroken chain of recent court victories in the truck rate underchar

A decision announced this week by Mexico to scrap costly business visas in favor of free 30-day busi

US OFFERS $100 MILLION IN AID TO RUSSIAN FIRMSThe United States signed a $100 million agreem

Transborder intermodal shipments between the United States and Mexico are expected to continue the s

Hyundai Merchant Marine, a rapidly growing South Korean container line, says its new string of ships

Foreign equity investments in the Philippines were 3.3 billion pesos (US$119 million) in the first t

The head of one of Japan's largest shipbuilders said the nation's shipbuilding industry remains stro

LOUISIANA BARGE FIRM SETTLES FMC CHARGESWASHINGTON - Bordelon Bros. Towing Co., of L

With less than a month remaining before U.S. Customs plans to centralize its northern New Jersey ins

Demonstrators against the U.S. trade embargo with Cuba cleared more than 150 tons of humanitarian ai

Crude petroleum inventories rose by 8.5 million barrels during the week ended Mar. 4 compared with t

China's overhanging supply of alumina and possible price cuts by domestic producers likely will put

With legislation passed and government changes made, the stage is now set for rapid growth of India'

Indonesia, under budget pressure after predicting a hefty 1993-94 deficit, Wednesday urged the Organ

The volume of stolen cargo in New Jersey last year plummeted 40 percent, the result of growing coope

Backed by tireless salesmanship, this vast former U.S. military outpost 50 miles from Manila is ging

While growing trade with Mexico has brought increasing traffic for U.S. railroads that connect with

Trucking across the U.S.-Mexico border will likely remain unchanged throughout 1994, as U.S. motor c

In the late 1960s, attempts were made to forge a Latin American Free-Trade Agreement, or Lafta.<

The House Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican has called for hearings on a new plan to reform t

One of the Philippines' feisty companies battling to upgrade the country's inadequate telecommunicat

Emerging from civil war, debt and the lost decade of the 1980s, Central and South American nations h

A slump in new ordering activity continues to push down the price of supertankers. The cost

(1) DAILY INDEX Annual Smoothed percent +2.093/3 96.7 3/4 96.7 3/7 96.2

America's railroads, slowed by winter storms in January, have returned to the fast track with carloa

The Australian government's leading indicator of employment rose in January, the Department of Emplo

Hijackings and cargo thefts are becoming so commonplace that motor carriers nationwide are developin