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Fuel economy creates death-dealing safety problems, according to a new report by the Insurance Insti

Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, D-S.C., the Senate's biggest booster of protecting the jobs of U.S. textile

EC foreign ministers Friday called for a strengthening of the U.N. trade embargo against Iraq, Itali

The top official at the Port of New Orleans predicted that Soviet general cargo trade with the Unite

MOBIL COMPLETES WORK ON SINGAPORE REFINERYFAIRFAX, Va. - Mobil Corp. completed a $100 millio

The rising price of crude oil on world markets since the Iraq crisis began is good news for South Af

Sept. 7, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

1193 (Sept. 7, 1990) Previous day - 1194 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

* Gordon Platt - Currency Forecast 3A * JofC Industrial Price Index 6A* James M. Nevler - CR

Pizza Hut is now spinning its famous pies in Moscow and doling out the latest slice of capitalism in

MEMBERS OWE ICCO $153 MILLION IN LEVIESThe International Cocoa Organization is owed a total

Estimates of Ghana's 1990 cocoa crop vary between 225,000 and 280,000 metric tons of beans, cocoa in

The British government is to charter two roll-on roll-off vessels for the sealift of U.S. military e

The following table lists the spot coal contracts signed between the Tennessee Valley Authority and

Slowing growth in corporate profits could threaten the twin pillars of Japan's economic might - capi

DRIVE DOWN ANY INTERSTATE HIGHWAY and you'll get a clear picture why railroads vigorously oppose any

The center of the air cargo world moves here this week when the second annual Air Cargo Shippers Con

Small airplanes are no longer the first priority for Piper Aircraft Co. After encountering f

Lloyd's of London announced a new form of salvage contract Thursday that it believes could mark a ma

Fri., Sept. 7, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

With a surge of military cargo headed for the Middle East, a conference of shipping lines moving car

THE MIDDLE EASTERN OIL PRODUCERS friendly to the United States will increase their oil production to

Construction is scheduled to begin today on a $9.4 million project that will turn a Port of Mobile w

Airbus Industrie, the European aircraft consortium, will lose money well into the next century despi

DESPITE GOLD'S DISMAL RECORD as a store of value and a safe haven during the 1980s, gold's price in

CARGO TRAFFIC UP 133 PERCENT AT OAKLAND AIRPORTOAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland International Airpo

Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest exporter of crude oil, virtually doubled shipments to feed markets

Sept. 7, 1990 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

Sept. 7, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

The U.S. dollar likely will continue to weaken in the next few weeks, assuming there is no shooting

The Federal Reserve and the Treasury failed to intervene in the foreign exchange markets to support

The Bush administration is moving away from the idea of weakening the Endangered Species Act, but a

The Soviet Union will not buy sugar from the free market this year, an official from Sakhar, the Sov

Are too many trucks chasing too little freight? That was one of the central questions posed

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent)is as f

HORSE RACING GROUP BUYS US BETTING GEARCARLSBAD, Calif. - International Totalizator Systems

Pandol Bros Inc. isn't interested in seeking punitive damages from the U.S. Food and Drug Administra

Manville Corp. has agreed to inject up to $520 million over the next seven years into a financially

The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, a World Bank affiliate, expects to play a markedly lar

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