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Grain and soybean futures moved higher Wednesday as shifts in Midwest weather patterns sparked conce

The top three government leaders for Illinois, Indiana and the city of Chicago Wednesday finally agr

A $500 million coal-fired energy plant that would relieve Puerto Rico of its near-total dependency o

Mexico and Venezuela agreed to halt the killing of dolphins by tuna fishers by March 1994 in exchang

Chain the door and bar the windows! The president has suspended the constitution! That seems

Brazilian port laborers returned to work Wednesday afternoon, ending in its eighth day a nationwide

RUSSIAN GOLD COINS MAY HIT WORLD MARKETGold coins issued by the Russian government to help p

Teamsters President Ron Carey, leading a protest demonstration here, charged the Bush administration

Wednesday, June 17, 1992 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The United States and Russia acted Wednesday to strengthen their long-term economic ties, as Preside

June 17, 1992 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Trade between Japan and China this year is expected to exceed last year's $20 billion for a record h

The European Commission is considering whether to use Draconian legal powers to break up state-owned

Nicaragua's production of gold is expected to jump 200 percent by 1994 as a result of government pla

Kazakhstan hopes to begin oil exploration negotiations with small and medium- sized foreign companie

The Interstate Commerce Commission reaffirmed Wednesday its earlier decision to scrap the rules gove

AIR FRANCE ASKS BOEING TO DELAY DELIVERY OF JETSAir France is talking to Boeing Co. about de

Western railroads are expecting steel traffic to pick up over the next few years as more and more of

Tight secrecy surrounded European Commission talks Wednesday on one of the toughest questions facing

The weary silence outside the entrance of the Northern Mine on the outskirts of this gray Siberian c

Trade ministers for Mexico, Canada and the United States are holding a low- profile meeting today an

After eight months of head-on confrontation between French dockworkers and port employers, the two s

ACL ADDS MEXICO CALL TO WEST COAST SERVICESOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. - Atlantic Container Line i

The European Community's coal industry is in a state of flux as the EC prepares for the launch of a

The natural gas industry wants a bigger piece of the energy pie. Aided by the Clean Air Act

A scientific study released Tuesday by Oregon's forestry industry concludes that logging is only a s

When Merck & Co. and Sweden's AB Astra Group were scouting sites for a new pharmaceutical research c

Will coal from Gillette, Wyo., or Fernie, British Columbia, light homes in Hermosillo, or cool condo

China protested at a United Nations labor conference Wednesday after a world trade union organizatio

Tleuchan Kabdrachmanov, chairman of the Kazahkstan government's economic committee, this week called

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted the principals of a company accused of having issued wo

June 17, 1992 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

The U.S. dollar rose Wednesday on a Federal Reserve report of signs of strength in the U.S. economy

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural ServiceAgExp

Switzerland's trade deficit narrowed sharply in May to 79.1 million Swiss francs (US$56 million) fro

Wednesday June 17, 1992 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represen

Strong growth will mark the world liner trades over the next five years, James Brennan, a U.S. trans

AMR Corp., parent of American Airlines Inc., said Wednesday it will "almost certainly" post a second

Thermo King Europe aims to put the big chill on the Commonwealth of Independent States, a market lar

Continental Airlines Inc. will cut salaries companywide starting July 1 by anaverage 7 perce