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President Bush is expected to announce this week his support for continued U.S. trade benefits for C

GLOBEX MAY OPERATE IN JAPAN BY END-JUNEDavid Mulford, U.S. Treasury undersecretary, Tuesday

EXPANSION OF PREFERENCE URGED FOR THIRD WORLDGENEVA - Industrial and developing countries on

1316 (May 22, 1990) Previous day - 1315 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

High-flying Singapore Airlines broke through the S$1 billion (US$500 million) mark for after-tax pro

AMERICAN TO REDUCE SOME CARGO RATESDALLAS - American Airlines will reduce its published airp

Daihatsu Motor Co. said Tuesday it is considering ifying its joint car production plant with

Union Carbide Industrial Gases Inc., a major supplier of gases to the electronics industry, signed a

New York Mercantile Exchange May 21, 1990CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

US, EUROPE RAIL BODIES SIGN RESEARCH PACTThe Association of American Railroads and the Inter

XEROX FAX MACHINE DOUBLES AS COPIERROCHESTER, N.Y. - Xerox Corp. Tuesday introduced a line o

In the dim light of early morning, they stream off the train at East Berlin's Lichtenberg Station, a

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

Despite a recent series of legal and legislative victories that banks have scored over insurance int

U.S. companies located in Hong Kong have doubled their number from five years ago and now account fo

U.S. interest rates will decline modestly this summer but rise again this fall, the National Associa

American President Cos. remains committed to entering the Hawaii market, but believes its may have s

The Senate Banking Committee intends to question Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and other U

The South Korean government is investigating allegations that E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. and Hoec

Monsanto Co. and Exxon Chemical Co. will merge their synthetic rubber operations, producing an integ

The Canadian central bank again intervened in the foreign exchange market Tuesday, buying Canadian d

The United States may be losing the will and the means to continue to support free trade, said Henry

Soviet natural gas exports to Western Europe are expected to rise 20 percent to about 2.12 trillion

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 245.70 off 1.45 which compares w

May 22, 1990 Copper Total, 8,992. Gold Total, .1,881,811.Silver Total, .254,694,168.

ISRAEL MAY BUILD ITS OWN SUPERCOMPUTERDisheartened by U.S. reluctance to allow the export of

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

A meeting of oil producers that are not members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

Miners at Peru's state-owned Centromin mines of Casapalca, Cobriza and Cerro de Pasco returned to wo

Though farmers are bogged down in muddy fields, causing a delay in spring planting of corn and soybe

Asea Brown Boveri Inc. said it has reached an agreement to sell its C-E Minerals business to Imetal

The Soviet Union is not likely to buy white sugar from the free market this year because its own sug

Development of faster Customs clearance procedures for intra-European highway freight traffic is bei

Discussions aimed at working out an interchange agreement between Delaware & Hudson Railway Co. and

HARLEYSVILLE REACHES AUTO PACT WITH PA.HARLEYSVILLE, Pa. - The Harleysville Mutual Insurance

May 22, 1990 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond,

A preliminary investigation of export credit guarantees to Iraq has uncovered some problems, but no

Deputy ministers from industrialized nations will agree next month to relax controls on exports of m

May 22, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

Armed with a federal search warrant, several inspectors from the Agency for International Developmen