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Congressional negotiators Tuesday worked out a plan to temporarily ban the sale of a synthetic hormo

AIDS activists had hoped to spend Tuesday afternoon shouting through a bullhorn at employees of Rhon

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

Five years ago, Russian engineer Boris Yoffe hardly could have imagined that one day he would be tra

International Petroleum Exchange Aug. 4, 1993Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)_

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York, are selling rates among trading

The World Bank's Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency stepped up its investment insurance covera

Exports of textiles and garments from Indonesia will jump 17 percent this year to US$7 billion, a go

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 223.27 up 0.35 which compares w

Rear Adm. Thomas T. Matteson recently assumed duties as superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine A

ARROW AIR ADDS PASSENGER PLANEMIAMI - Arrow Air, a Miami-based carrier, added a seco

Elenore McMullen is an American Indian from Port Graham who subsists heavily on wild foods gathered

Hope for a quick end to the strike that has crippled north-south freight shipments in British Columb

Raw timber exporters and tobacco importers will find those transactions much more expensive if Congr

The Federal Trade Commission has placed another hurdle in front of the proposed sale of4,000 boxcars

Reported efforts to sell Bangor & Aroostook Railroad (BAR) have sparked fears among Maine officials

China's economic supremo Zhu Rongji said Beijing is determined to defend the present value of the Ch

Zimbabwe's economy is ready to flower again after suffering its worst drought in more than a century

GENERAL RE SEES RISE IN 2ND-QUARTER INCOMESTAMFORD, Conn. - General Re Corp. reporte

Germany's Tchibo Group will continue investing in coffee roasting and cigarette manufacturing in sev

The 5,867-deadweight-ton freighter Cedar Pride is likely to be declared a total loss after a fire co

The U.S. dollar was up slightly Wednesday against the deutsche mark and yen in a very slow market. S

Public Service Co. of Colorado reached a milestone in its disassembly of the Fort St. Vrain nuclear

Wall Street gobbled up most of Mid Ocean Ltd.'s initial public offering, trading 7.2 million out of

British and Chinese negotiators Wednesday dashed hopes of a breakthrough on funding Hong Kong's new

Three auxiliary airport safety workers were executed Monday after successfully completing a special

Fritz Cos. announced Wednesday it acquired Masters Airfreight Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-based air freig

Ashland Oil Inc. appears to be making headway in its collection of contaminated pipe from an old oil

In a subtle but important policy shift, the Clinton administration is showing a greater willingness

Wednesday, Aug. 4, 1993 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

A Bay Area firm has penned an agreement that makes it the first non-Chinese company to manufacture s

The South Street Seaport Museum and the Seamen's Church Institute will mark the 50th anniversary of

Emery Worldwide said its U.K. network of offices and freight terminals has received a quality assura

Emerging from a decade of war, Nicaragua wants the U.S. National Ports and Waterways Institute to he

Ronald L. Tillett, the state treasurer, recently joined the Virginia Port Authority's board of commi

The Harrison County Board of Supervisors wants the option to cut its funding of the state port in Gu

On the murky floor of the Irish Sea, the British ocean liner Lusitania lies rusting in a cold grave,

France will use its national safety laws to clamp down on certain types of imports, a senior French

Louis Dreyfus Corp. denied it filed a formal complaint with New York's Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Excha

Major computer chip makers are biting their nails as the main supplier of an essential production ma