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Aug. 30, 1990 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

As had been widely anticipated, Japan's central bank raised the official discount rate by 0.75 perce

MORE WESTERN FIRMS ATTEND LEIPZIG FAIRThe biannual Leipzig trade fair opens Sunday with Germ

DATE OF AWARD: "E Star" Award on May 23, 1990. E Award in 1985. Proler also received the Tur

LACK OF RAIN TO CUT GHANA'S COCOA CROPACCRA, Ghana - Cocoa experts here say lack of rainfall

One of the colony's lesser known shipping companies turned in a 350 percent operating increase in pr

Japan Air Lines and the U.S. Customs Service have eliminated one of the most labor-intensive, arduou

Sea trials are expected to begin next week for the newest ship in the U.S. merchant fleet, but legal

Storms that swept through Northern Europe at the beginning of the year and problems with a recent It

Citicorp will be the newest entrant into the export credit insurance market in the fall with a progr

California's new "Earthquake Recovery Act" chides Congress for its failure to come up with a nationa

Most major railroads announced plans to increase freight rates by about 4 percent due to the recent

Karl-Heinz Sager's Senator Linie GmbH has never made a dime. It carries less than 2 percent

Three years ago, small containerships were cheap in West Germany. Karl-Heinz Sager, a former deputy

Crowley Maritime Corp. announced late Thursday that it is suspending its American Transport Lines se

CASTLE OIL CORP. (New Rochelle, N.Y.) - Ronald C. Seitz was promoted to vice president of sales admi

Aug. 30, 1990 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid- Prem

A congressional investigating agency doubts that moving the Coast Guard out of the Department of Tra

Controlling wide price swings in property and casualty insurance pricing is a top priority of insura

MD. TO GET $10 MILLION TO CUT NOISE AT BWIBALTIMORE/WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Md. -

Tests show that airlines could save hundreds of millions of dollars in fuel costs with a new wing de

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

Press reports of an unstable situation in August soyoil futures were ''overblown," and the market tr

Thursday Aug. 30, 1990 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

The president of the nation's largest trucking association accused shippers' agents of hurting small

Japan, wildly successful at targeting technologies and exploiting them commercially, has turned its

"Black pod rot" has joined the even more destructive fungus "witch's broom" as a threat to Brazilian

Jordan is seeking an international aid about $2 billion a year over the next five years to offset th

Taiwan's bid to win new markets has given rise to a secondary theme at the country's import fair thi

RMI Titanium Co. broke ground for a new titanium tetrachloride facility, estimated to cost between $

A nationwide survey has found the delinquency rate on home mortgages rose only slightly in the secon

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Despite the belief that Ford Motor Co. easily could match a labor agreement crafted by General Motor

A STUDY GROUP'S RECOMMENDATION that the Chicago Board of Trade ''aggressively" develop the Aurora el

West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange climbed higher Thursda

Aug. 30, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

As of Aug. 30, 1990 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list price

The executive director of the Port of Seattle earlier this week pledged to make the port more busine

The Japanese wholesale price index for Aug. 11-20 averaged 90.6 (1985=100), up 0.1 percent from Aug.

Who's that behind those Foster Grants? The bankruptcy judge, that's who, a dark blow for a venerable