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A labor court in Brasilia is scheduled to rule today on the legality of a week-old oil workers' stri

Growth in world energy demand slowed to 2 percent in 1989, to 58.4 billion barrels of oil equivalent

The United States is inching toward use of metric measurements, and the slow transition could be con

FED REPORT FORECASTS STABLE INFLATION RATEU.S. economic activity continues to be slow in mos

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Eleven Dominican stowaways hiding in the cargo hold of a Puerto Rican ship w

An item in the Maritime Briefs column titled, " 'K' Line Units Moving to Murray Hill, N.J.," which a

Shin Hasegawa, Japan's justice minister, responding to mounting pressure from the Bush administratio

TRUCK-TRAIN COLLISION KILLS THREE IN TENN.BROWNSVILLE, Tenn. - A tanker truck loaded with al

The demise of the Cold War will allow the United States to shift its focus in Latin America from an

* Trading With Uruguay 4A * Tom Connors - Washington 8A* Bart R. Boaden - End Farm Subsidies

A federally sponsored U.S. trade mission to Eastern Europe aimed at enhancing trade with that region

After five years and a 10,000 billion lire (about $8 billion) investment, Eureka, the European Resea

An administrative law judge for the Federal Maritime Commission ruled this week that Italian wine sh

In another sign of troubled waters at the Port of Oakland, James O'Brien, the port's top transportat

The oil industry has another risk management vehicle today as trading in the first high-sulfur crude

June 20, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Foreign and domestic companies will get a chance to invest in India's power generation sector as the

Copper prices declined sharply Wednesday on aggressive trade selling following a dive in London pric

June 20, 1990 Copper Total, 17,209. Gold Total, .1,514,691.Silver Total, .250,117,773.

The Soviet Union owes $2 billion for imports of consumer goods in the past year, the chairman of the

Singapore International Monetary Exchange June 20, 1990(Dollars Per Metric Ton)Open

Such common American traits as talking with your hands, back-slapping or arm- punching are consider

I had dinner Tuesday with Brenton Welling Jr., senior writer at Business Week, to observe today's 20

JOURNAL OF COMMERCE TRANSPORTATION TABLE, W. Graham Claytor, president of Amtrak, talks on thecurren

A swelling-door problem on General Motors Corp.'s new Saturn model has been fixed and the first mark

For Lyle Akey, the problem seems achingly familiar. More than a decade ago, he watched as Ki

The lowering of the checkered flag, the roar of the 750-horsepower engines and the heart-stopping ex

Du Pont Co. said Wednesday it will acquire an Australian synthetic fibers producer as part of its $1

ENERGY EFFICIENCY - conservation - appears to be emerging as the cornerstone of the National Energy

June 20, 1990 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

State-owned Philippine Airlines pledged full support Wednesday for investigation of alleged financia

SOVIET METALS GET 'BRAND' NAME STATUSThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission Wednesday appr

A long-awaited no-fault automobile insurance scheme kicks off Friday in the province of Ontario, Can

The U.S. dollar continued to trade slightly higher against most other currencies Wednesday but was l

The Interstate Commerce Commission appears poised to declare that two major rail systems are not mak

BALLY GAMING MACHINES TO BE SOLD IN EAST BLOCAn East German company has agreed to distribute

China is moving to tighten control over imports of tobacco products in an effort to bolster state re

U.S. companies looking to trade with Uruguayan counterparts can take advantage of trade promotion a

They are gone now. The ships are scrapped and discarded, the figures dead and buried, but their lege

The following is a profile by an agriculture industry specialist looking at the weather outlook for