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The U.S. auto industry, faced with an unprecedented array of problems, is watching its fortunes free

EC finance ministers will discuss community farm spending at a meeting April 8. Agriculture minister

Plans by three New York futures exchanges to relocate to facilities two blocks north of the present

The sharpest gains in months in Chicago Board of Trade corn and soybean futures may hamper near-term

Coffee traders here are awaiting anxiously the news that Brazil has reopened coffee export registrat

W. Don Welch, executive director of the South Carolina State Ports Authority, will receive the 1991

Negotiations are under way here between a Japanese construction company and the Chinese province of

Rep. John Doolittle, R-Calif., 39, is former state senator, a native-born Californian who repre- sen

Airline and railroad equipment lenders are breathing a bit easier in the aftermath of a U.S. Distric

In the reactor control room simulator at the Nuclear Power Plant Research Institute, the technicians

AIG TRADING CORP. (New York) - Sir Alan A. Walters, chief economic adviser to former British Prime M

AVERAGE PRICE OF CRUDE IN OPEC BASKET FALLSThe average price of the basket of seven crude oi

The number of rigs drilling for oil and gas in the United States fell to 910 last week, down by one

The shipping arm of a major oil company and a sailors union are locked in a struggle over launch cap

Valentin Pavlov, Soviet prime minister, Tuesday met with coal miners' leaders in an effort to end a

Apr. 2, 1991 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid-

*Singapore International Monetary Exchange Apr. 2, 1991Dubai Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel

Taiwan's shift to higher-end electronics is rendering the island's computer firms increasingly - in

GERMANY MUST ACCEPT GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITYGermany must accept global responsibility, but it w

NORTH AMERICA Expo Lacteos '91. April 4-8. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Milk byproducts. Co

Charges linking Russian leader Boris N. Yeltsin to a $50 billion trading scheme have helped to fuel

Standard & Poor's Corp. said Tuesday that March was another dismal month for dividends and that the

A moderate slowdown in Japan's economy in recent months is not nearly as important as the possible t

Members of the trade community are still at odds with the Department of Agriculture's decision to im

ALBANIAN ELECTION SPARKS ANGER, UNRESTKAVAJE, Albania - Enraged workers in Kavaje, learning

ARGENTINE GRAIN EXPORTS SEEN RISINGBUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina will export a combine

James M. Ford was named superintendent at this company's Schiller park, Ill., facility. He

The nations of the European Community must surrender aviation negotiating authority to Brussels if t

Electric utilities' conservation efforts would replace the amount of power they sell in rate-setting

First Executive Corp., the Los Angeles-based insurance holding company, on Monday reported a fourth-

NAII OPPOSES TRANSFER OF INSURED COVER DATARequiring insurance companies to give computerize

Icy conditions in Lake Superior that marred the opening of the Great Lakes shipping season have been

Apr. 2, 1991 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond,

Apr. 2, 1991 Copper Total, 30,280. Gold Total, .1,375,233.Silver Total, .260,330,613.

Aluminum ingots- $1,420-$1,430 per ton lots & in warehouse min. 99.

Apr. 2, 1991 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

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

KUWAIT PLANS TO EASE BANKING CONTROLS SOONKuwait's central bank is expected to relax financi

The following business missions are scheduled. The Journal of Commerce assumes no responsibility for

Even as Washington was lashing China as among its least fair trading partners, senior Beijing offici