Latest news

IT'S EARLY AUGUST; CAN WINTER BE FAR AWAY? Not when warehouses are filling up quickly with coffee an

Canadian Airlines International and Varig, Brazil's national carrier, have signed a marketing allian

In the remote island town of Wrangell, Alaska, women working for Judy Daniels pump iron to make sure

Freight rates for shipping cocoa, timber and other cargo from west and central Africa will remain fr

New York Mercantile Exchange Aug. 6, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

Aug. 8, 1991 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond,

Copper prices keep going north as labor negotiations at Chile's El Teniente mine keep going nowhere.

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago8/8 8/7 Change % Change: 7/16

Aug. 8, 1991 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

New York Mercantile Exchange Aug. 7, 1991Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High Low

LONG-TERM DEPOSITS OF YASUDA DOWNGRADEDMoody's Investors Service lowered its credit rating o

India is moving to relax some of the severe import restrictions imposed last April in an effort to p

DATE OF AWARD: "E" Award in 1991.WHY THE AWARD WAS GIVEN:Ansul Fire Protection, a su

The general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Airports labeled as erroneous published reports

Treuhand, the German agency charged with privatizing state-owned enterprises in eastern Germany, pla

''Box Shipments Through Savannah Near 1986 Record," a story on Page 1B of The Journal of Commerce Au

While supporting action to give workers more authority to police their workplaces for hazards, the O

PHOENIX RE POSTS INCREASE IN INCOMEPhoenix Re Corp. announced second-quarter net income of $

The sluggish economy seemed to have no effect on the nation's two largest airlines as United Airline

HELLMANN TO EXPAND SERVICE TO MEXICOSAN FRANCISCO - Hellmann International Forwarders (USA)

Aug. 8, 1991 No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley

ALBERTO-CULVER TO BUY SWEDISH HYGIENICS FIRM MELROSE PARK, Ill. - Alberto-Culver Co. Wednesd

Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin said Thursday he wants to assume jurisdiction over the re

Ansul Fire Protection's leap into academia has quickly become its backbone for sustaining and increa

China has agreed to allow Mongolia, its long-estranged neighbor, to use the Port of Tianjin as a tra

Officials for United Airlines and the state of Colorado are talking again. And that has avia

The U.S. dollar pushed broadly higher Thursday afternoon on what dealers called a short-covering ral

More than a dozen ships were tied up Thursday at the nation's busiest port complex as longshoremen i

CREDIT LYONNAIS TO CLOSE METALS UNITThe commodity brokerage and trade house Credit Lyonnais

The idea of open borders between the United States and Mexico conjures up images of truckers rolling

DU PONT, OTHERS REACH DRUG LICENSING ACCORDPINE BROOK, N.J. - E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.,

The excruciating pain of migraine and cluster headaches is yielding to a new ''designer drug" called

As of Aug. 8, 1991 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list prices

Aluminum ingots- $1,200-$1,300 per ton lots & in wareh

Transportation News Ticker The dry cargo and tanker fixtures listed herewith and compiled in

1442 (Aug. 8, 1991) Previous day - 1437 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

More than 10,000 hungry, exhausted and half-naked Albanian refugees crammed on a rusting freighter f

State regulatory powers were challenged recently in New Jersey when a Superior Court judge denied th

UK FUTURES EXCHANGE PLANS SCREEN TRADINGLondon's International Financial Futures Exchange is

Recent world events should push up ocean freight rates for bulk cargo in the medium term, although t