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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

The Venezuelan metals conglomerate Sural SA plans to invest $25 million in an aluminum-cable factor

GATT WON'T OPPOSE N. AMERICAN TRADE PLANThe General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade would not

AMOCO CORP. (Chicago) - Edwin J. Roland was named vice president for operations planning and transpo

Abolition of the Port Everglades Authority in 1994 appears a virtual certainty. State legisl

Congress is likely to debate, but ultimately unlikely to pass, a Treasury Department proposal to exp

The Tokyo Commodity Exchange for Industry plans to computerize trading in precious metals as of Apri

AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE PLANS SERVICE OFFICE (Johnston, R.I.) - Elton A. Stephenson, assistant vice pre

CUBA TO SELL TO USSR 4 MILLION TONS OF SUGARCuba will export 4 million metric tons of sugar

Wednesday Feb. 6, 1991 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is demanding access to a shipyard where an unlicensed tank

CONTAINERIZATION AND INTERMODAL INSTITUTE, SEMINAR ON QUALITY IN THE '90S, FEB. 8. World TradeCenter

Murphy's Law ruled trucking in 1990, but officials of Cherryville, N.C.-based Carolina Freight Corp.