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Five years of lingering drought in California will have their greatest impact on the state's 1991 co

Wed., Feb. 6, 1991 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

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

Dredging of the Hooghly river and estuary is expected to benefit both Calcutta port and the nearby H

As cargo volumes continue to grow while the number of government officials that police imports and e

Blending of Canadian soft white wheat into the deliverable U.S. soft red winter wheat supply in Tole

The U.S. general agent for Safbank Line is Gulf & Atlantic Maritime Services Inc., Iselin, N.J., con

The European Community sees no direct threat from a U.S. plan to create the world's biggest trading

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

BUSH RENOMINATES SIMMONS FOR ICC POSTWASHINGTON - President Bush renominated Interstate Comm

Oil security in the Persian Gulf is likely to be enhanced by the war, analysts with the Hudson Insti

U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady Wednesday said the Treasury Department opposed mandating that

NY ADOPTS NEW RULES ON BOND INVESTMENTSALBANY, N.Y. - The New York Insurance Department adop

OLIN TO DOUBLE NY PLANT CAPACITYOlin Corp. will double capacity at its 2-chloropyridine plan

New York Mercantile Exchange Feb. 5, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 213.90 off 1.12 which compares

Singapore International Monetary Exchange Feb. 6, 1991Dubai Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

What does electronic data interchange, the standardized transfer of business data, need to take hold

One of the biggest buy-outs in years within the American oil tanker business is on hold while the De

Recent production cuts and sales declines for Japanese carmakers operating in the United States show

The U.S. dollar fell to a 9 1/2-year low against the British pound Wednesday as it con- tinued its d

Amtrak may bow to the inevitable and start, not happily, to negotiate how much it must pay Guilford

Texas ports continued to show their dependence on bulk commodity cargoes last year, setting cargo vo

EMERY WORLDWIDE (Palo Alto, Calif.) - Thomas Reilly, a veteran financial executive in the transporta

A letter of protest will be sent to Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter by his Canadian counterpar

Europe's natural gas market is on a roll as producers move to capture market share from oil, coal an

Cuba has been unable to obtain credit to finance its December purchase of 300,000 metric tons of Arg

"Irrational wellhead prices" for natural gas threaten the industry's ability to supply enough of the

Gold and platinum prices closed lower again Wednesday on trade and speculative selling. Howe

The volume of freight moving over the Siberian landbridge dropped last year compared with traffic in

Improvements in the economic and political situations that drove Sea-Land Service Inc. out of Panama

Health care crime doesn't pay. It hurts patients and inflates insurance premiums. Mountain State Blu

Japan will stick to a 10-year-old quota system on car exports to the United States even if the world

About 40 American companies or their Indian associates are participating in the ninth Indian enginee

If the widely expected recession finally has arrived, the computer industry isn't suffering the adve

JOINT BANK VENTURE IN HUNGARY APPROVEDBRUSSELS, Belgium - A Hungarian joint venture involvin

A second round of "road show" mission trips to brief the American business community on a potential

A request by the European Free Trade Association for the world trade body GATT to examine the links

Dock workers at the Port of Santos, Brazil's largest port, will initiate an indefinite strike, begin

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York recently expanded the scope of maritime arbitration wit