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Three thousand years ago, scholars say, Olmec Indians settled in this Sierra Madre river valley, bui

Zimbabwe's Grain Marketing Board has tentatively agreed with the country's corn farmers on a new pro

A continued lack of investment in transportation could spell another year of inefficiencies and high

Workers compensation insurance is becoming so scarce in Mississippi that business operators such as

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

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

This little island isn't neat like Singapore, nor is it automated like Japan. It doesn't hav

SINGAPORE TRADE DEFICIT ROSE IN NOVEMBERSingapore's November trade deficit was US$720 millio

Jan. 2, 1992 JAPANFinancial Futures*Japanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 208.20 up0.69 which com

Most French ports were paralyzed by a 48-hour strike that started Thursday, the fourth stoppage sinc

As of Jan. 2, 1992 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list prices

The Cook County Circuit Court found Chicago-based Inter-American Insurance Co. insolvent, and has gi

SWISS LEADER THREATENS: VOTE FOR EC OR I'LL QUITZURICH, Switzerland - Rene Felber, president

New York Mercantile Exchange Dec. 31, 1991Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen Hi

Stockholders of Spanish state-owned oil company Cia Arrendataria del Monopolio de Petroleos, or Camp

VENEZUELA WILL BOOST SOCIAL SPENDING 40 PERCENTCARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Car

Dec. 31, 1991 Copper Total, 32,594. Gold Total, .1,605,230.Silver Tot

Dec. 31, 1991 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

China is expected to devalue its currency by about 7 percent in preparation for further financial re

1494 (Dec. 31, 1991) Previous day - 1492 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Truck leasing companies, looking to nip what may blossom into a nationwide threat, are marshaling ef

Dec. 31, 1991 RESELLER Rack_Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded

China will export a 300-megawatt nuclear power station to Pakistan, and both sides vowed it would be

AMOCO CORP. TO RESTART TEXAS UNIT THIS MONTHAmoco Corp. expects to restart sometime this mon

COASTAL GAS MARKETING COMPANY Coastal Gas Marketing Company (formerly ANR Gathering Company)

Dec. 31, 1991 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

Taiwan's wheat-based food processing industry has demanded that the government lift its 40-year ban

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

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

Roger Runningen was inside a bread store near St. Petersburg when a state official announced to seve

WICHITA, Kan. - Railroad Financial Corp. stock leaped $7 - up from $10 - on Monday based on its repo

Tue., Dec. 31, 1991 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

Ocean carriers serving the U.S. trades are hoping that the rate shock waves caused by the entrance o

Earnings at bulk carrier operator Continental Mariner Investment Co. continued to slide in the first

Agent representatives throughout the nation received an internal memo saying that Aetna Life & Casua

HMO RATE HIKE PLAN DENIED BY NEW YORKSalvatore R. Curiale, New York's superintendent of insu

U.S. metals company Reynolds International, of Richmond, Va., which recently started a bauxite mine

A small 1991-92 (October-April) main cocoa crop in Brazil and a world deficit in 1992 will combine t

When the Berlin Wall crumbled two years ago and the Soviet coup failed in August, euphoria prompted