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About the last place one would expect to find an English-language slogan urging the Japanese to "Imp

Sugar prices are less sweet today than six months ago. After a fairly substantial rise to about 15 c

ASSOCIATED AIR FREIGHT INC. (New Hyde Park, N.Y.) - Cheryl DePonceau was appointed district manager

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC. (New York) - Joseph N. Cataldo was appointed branch manager for D

Shipping agent Martyn Merritt, already battling the Federal MaritimeCommission over $320,000

Reversing a previous public statement, Sea-Land Service Inc. said Thursday it won't carry domestic c

Dec. 20, 1990 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

Singapore International Monetary Exchange Dec. 20, 1990Dubai Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel

Barring a Christmas miracle, 1990 will go down in history as the end of an eight-year economic expan

The Tokyo Grain Exchange and Tokyo Sugar Exchange, two of Japan's 16 commodity exchanges, are likely

Sugar refiners and food manufacturers are trying to modify new U.S. quota and duty rules, arguing th

Senior officials from the China Chamber of International Commerce are meeting with South Korean gove

The Port of Oakland said it expects its fiscal 1991 net income to fall $9.2 million below budget bec

Dec. 19, 1990 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

1443 (Dec. 19, 1990) Previous day - 1438 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Raytheon Co. is making a strenuous push into Southeast Asia, where it sees a juicy market for its el

New mandatory drug testing will go into effect Friday for boat captains and their crews. The

Gasoline prices nose-dived 7.2 cents a gallon in Charlotte last week, more than compensating for the

What started as a routine branch line sale for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway has turned into

Wed., Dec. 19, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

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

Wednesday Dec. 19, 1990 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represen

New York Mercantile Exchange Dec. 18, 1990CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

Thousands of Barrels Week Week WeekEnded Ended Ended12-14 12-7

Active weekly export sales of cotton have further raised the possibility final registrations may exc

An American board game that uses a word for a minority Japanese group as offensive as calling Africa

MAIL BOXES ETC. PICKS UPS AS ITS '91 SHIPPERSAN DIEGO - Mail Boxes Etc., a nationwide retail

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 220.21 off 0.32 which compares

As of Dec. 19, 1990 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list price

Dec. 19, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development called on Japan to conduct a thorough rev

ECONOMY GREW 1.4 PERCENT IN THIRD QUARTERThe economy grew at a 1.4 percent rate between July

China may be exporting more but it's not earning as much as it thinks it should. New rules are being

Spain's bid for an economic "soft landing" after four years of high growth and inflation has been te

The London Metal Exchange is extremely unlikely to drop its plans to list a secondary aluminum contr

At Du Pont's "Pecander" advanced composite materials factory here, low-tech meets high-tech.

STATE FARM HIKES NY STATE AUTO RATESBLOOMINGTON, Ill. - State Farm Mutual Automobile Insuran

NATIONS PROPOSE COCOA STABILIZATION FUNDACCRA, Ghana - Ghana and four other major cocoa prod

A federal appeals court in Chicago, drawing upon 19th Century wrestling terminology, has ruled in fa

American companies doing business in China should wish continued long life to Deng Xiaoping, says a