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Swire Pacific Ltd., the aviation-to-property conglomerate, saw first-half earnings predictably nicke

President Bush and British Prime Minister John Major agreed Thursday on the need to speed technical

A liquidated trucking company is asking the Supreme Court to shut a legal loophole that could preven

Lawyers with the Federal Maritime Commission say it should slap penalties on Chinese-flag carriers i

AIR ONTARIO TO LAUNCH NEWARK-TORONTO LINKLONDON, Ontario - Air Ontario will start daily non-

SALES DECLINE 8.5 PERCENT IN SINGLE-FAMILY HOMESSales of new single-family homes in

Switzerland is expected to grant China $72.4 million (110 million Swiss francs) in mixed credits dur

Aug. 29, 1991 RESELLER Rack_Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

DATE OF AWARD: "E" Award in 1991.WHY THE AWARD WAS GIVEN:Wahl Clipper Corp.

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 210.69 up 0.10 which compares

Aug. 29, 1991 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (America) Inc. will relocate its Midwest regional office and the corporate headq

Tim Sansbury has been an energy reporter in the Washington bureau of The Journal of Commerce since S

An effort is being launched in the United States by senior Soviet government officials and U.S. lega

The international chemical industry is moving toward uniform environmental standards, calling for in

As of Aug. 29, 1991 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list price

Aug. 29, 1991 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

The Department of Defense has put its paperless trading campaign into high gear, planning to move to

International freight traffic in July was 4 percent down on the same month last year, and down 3 per

Quebec has decided to put off construction of the multibillion-dollar Great Whale power project for

New York Mercantile Exchange Aug. 28, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

Aug. 29, 1991 No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%

The agency charged with privatizing previously state-owned east German companies will try to privati

HUNGARY'S TRADE SLIDES WITH EASTERN EUROPEHungary's trade with Eastern Europe fell s

CBOE PLANS TO CUT 110 OF 950 POSITIONSThe Chicago Board Options Exchange announced plans to

Aug. 29, 1991 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

CBT DELAYS LAUNCHING OF INSURANCE FUTURESThe Chicago Board of Trade has delayed the

Two members' agents from the troubled London-based Lloyd's insurance market are merging to form a ne

The Federal Maritime Commission launched an investigation of "doing business" practices in Taiwan, a

Tampa's new $84 million aquarium is not scheduled until January 1992, but the port has already begun

Representatives of leading British car and car component manufacturers are scheduled to visit the So

New York-New Jersey Port Promotion Association. Sept. 5. New York. Luncheon meeting. Guest speaker,

In a story headlined "'K' Line Rail Service for Chilled Meat on the Right Track" that appeared on Pa

Mail Boxes Etc., based in San Diego, which was featured in an Aug. 21 story in The Journal of Commer

Jerry E. Dempsey will become chairman and D.P. "Pat" Payne will become chief executive officer, effe

Mobil Chemical Co., based here, has begun building a state-of-the-art oriented polypropylene, or OPP

EUROPEAN BANKS JOIN FOR BRAZIL DEBT SWAPSA group of European banks led by Creditanstalt-Bank

Alaska Airlines, which completed its first season of flights from the West Coast to the Soviet Union

In its ceaseless but so far unavailing effort to rein in companies operating at a loss, China replac