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The Japanese government and several Japanese shipyards are carrying out an $11 million project to de

China's reformists moved a little closer to their vision of a socialist Wall Street Wednesday with t

American liquor manufacturers have asked the U.S. Trade Representative's Office to initiate steps th

The European Community's plan for a single market by 1992 has important implications for the island

KIDNAPPERS KILL CHIEF OF COCA-COLA IN BOLIVIALA PAZ, Bolivia - The president of Coca-Cola Co

ILLINOIS PORT AGENCY TO REDEEM BONDS EARLYCHICAGO - The Illinois International Port District

A Lloyd Brasileiro vessel was arrested here Tuesday, the sixth of the financially troubled carrier's

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

Dec. 5, 1990 No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 38.80

1430 (Dec. 5, 1990) Previous day - 1388 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

International Petroleum Exchange Dec. 5, 1990Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)-

While President Bush was making his way through Latin America this week selling the merits of freer

Despite the turmoil produced in California by Proposition 103, the leader of one of the nation's la

CAMBODIAN OUTPUT OF RUBBER RECOVERSRubber production in Cambodia is back to pre-war levels a

Japanese researchers are evaluating whether their envisioned high-speed containership should ride on

SOVIET VENTURE TO START CANADIAN CARGO FLIGHTSVANCOUVER, British Columbia - A Soviet-Swiss c

Dec. 5, 1990 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Unionized dockworkers and waterfront management have come to terms in Philadelphia and Baltimore -

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is a politician, not a cash grain merchandiser, and his comments

A San Francisco law firm was ordered last week to refund $148,611 in legal fees charged Fireman' Fun

The agencies responsible for the St. Lawrence Seaway have decided on a three- year tolls package com

COASTAL CORP. CONFIRMS TALKS WITH HUSSEINBAGHDAD, Iraq - Oscar Wyatt, chairman of Coastal Co

A coalition led by non-union coal companies took another step this week toward heading off the impos

Sources say Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has told its two principal U.S. agents that it no longer will need t

The United States and the European Community Wednesday night were still locked in a bitter standoff

A German proposal that would slash limits on computer exports to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

* Trading With Martinique 4A * Don C. Becker - Publisher's Notebook 12A* Tom Connors - Washi

GERMAN TRADE SURPLUS WIDENED IN OCTOBERFRANKFURT, Germany - The trade surplus for Germany wi

When Nikita Khrushchev in 1956 warned the Western world: "History is on our side; we will bury you,"

New nuclear power plants will be built in the United States, starting in 1995, and begin operating b

A WINDOW INTO NEW BUSINESS. That's the reason TSI International says it bought Fortell Corp.

Eastern Europeans may want to eat McDonald's hamburgers and wear Levi's jeans, but they're going to

Re-exports are likely to remain the key to Hong Kong's performance in the coming year with domestic

A U.S. and Canadian delegation representing the St. Lawrence Seaway will travel to five European cou

Trading volume in the two most active stock index options contracts at the Chicago Board Options Exc

Gold prices Wednesday declined under the weight of tumbling oil prices and on the Federal Reserve Ba

A start toward restoring U.S.-Vietnamese economic relations may be made next year, a senior U.S. off

Why spend $33 million to gain 14 inches? Consolidated Rail Corp. recently did that to im- prove vert

Work has begun on the first stages of a new safety inspection plan for the nation's railroads and sh

The words are different but the message is still the same: The U.S. Customs Service's aggressive aut