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Venezuela is expected to announce next month further details of its plan to liberalize its oilseed i

Japan's finance minister urged China Wednesday to push ahead with its reforms and policy of opening

JORDAN CLOSES BORDER WITH IRAQAMMAN, Jordan - Jordan Wednesday closed its border with Iraq a

The United States has stepped in to reassert control over a string of islands in the Western Pacific

One of Japan's top three trading houses, C. Itoh & Co., will send manufactured goods to the Soviet U

Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan, who had warned against Japanese ownership of the tourist concession

Friday's U.S. Department of Agriculture report is expected to be much more important to the directio

Soviet import demand for wheat and coarse grains over the next several years probably will be less t

With next week's deadline for Iraq to pull out of Kuwait looming, the United States and the world's

Susumu Hosokawa, a ticket puncher in Tokyo's subway system, soon will be replaced by a machine.

As of Jan. 9, 1991 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list prices

A private stock exchange will be established in June in North Sumatra, Indonesia, the Jakarta Post n

Michelin has become the first foreign tire company to close a plant on U.S. soil. Only a wee

The U.S. Rice Millers Association will wait on the outcome of efforts to revive stalled trade talks

Upgrading the nation's seafood inspection system would do little to improve health, according to a r

The new port director here may be a rookie in the field of public port management, but commissioners

Oil trading and refining companies in Asia have all but abandoned the spot market ahead of the Jan.

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) Jan. 9, 1991Bid AskedCopper-G

International Petroleum Exchange Jan. 9, 1991*Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

New York Mercantile Exchange Jan. 8, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

Jan. 9, 1991 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid- Premi

Leningrad-based Baltic Shipping Co. will soon launch a liner service between North Europe and U.S. G

* Trading With Rwanda 4A * Tom Connors - Washington 8A* Peter D. Clark - Sea Law 3B*

Ruili's sprawling market is a whirlwind of capitalism. Hundreds of dark-skinned Burmese, dra

SENATORS URGE REVIEW OF EC PORK BANA coalition of 41 U.S. senators criticized the EC's impor

Trading in the f.o.b. Singapore naphtha market is getting more active, as traders consider it a safe

GUILFORD INVESTIGATES MAINE DERAILMENTGuilford Transportation Industries was seeking the cau

Hercules Inc. said it would cut 475 jobs, mostly in Delaware, through a combination of voluntary and

Eastman Kodak Co. said that its Sterling Drug Inc. subsidiary and Sanofi, a subsidiary of France's S

P&I CLUB IN UK JOINS MARITIME FRAUD BUREAUMembers of the North of England Protection and Ind

Regulation of the reinsurance industry became part of the suggested road to recovery for the propert

Aluminum ingots- $1,640-$1,700 per ton lots & in warehouse min. 99.

Jan. 9, 1991 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Jan. 8, 1991 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid- Premi

The nation's airlines have joined the fold. All 50-odd airmail carriers agreed late last wee

Canada's October composite leading economic indicator fell for the ninth month to 141.7, down 0.6 pe

FACTORY ORDERS FALL IN WESTERN GERMANYFRANKFURT, Germany - A sharp decline in foreign demand

United Airlines began a new passenger and cargo service from Washington and Chicago to Tokyo Tuesda

Early last year, the question was posed to a number of Journal of Commerce employees: Should

Union Pacific Railroad Co. will spend $70 million this year in the first phase of a five-year $250 m