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STACKED IN NEAT ROWS and collecting dust, spent catalytic converters face anuncertain future

DOW CHEMICAL CO. (Midland, Mich.) - James Hicks was appointed corporate auditor, replacing Dale Bywa

The Trade Secretariat and coffee industry signed an agreement to scrap coffee import permits, the Me

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago5/17 5/16 Change % Change: 4

DELTA AIR LINES in April flew 4.8 billion revenue passenger miles, down from 5 billion in April 1990

U.S. and Soviet maritime negotiators meeting here this week are on the verge of concluding a new bil

SEVENTH ANNUAL HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION FESTIVAL. May 18-20. Port of Houston's Turning B

Texas insurance regulators are scheduled to meet today to determine how to help the state's eroding

A dispute is expected to develop over trade at the ministerial meeting of the Organization for Econo

JAPAN WON'T SET DATE FOR DECONTROL OF RATESA senior Finance Ministry official said Thursday

A study by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission found no evidence of stock index futures marke

May 17, 1990 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

A group of Japanese firms will visit the main British and U.S. commodity exchanges in June to study

Gates/FA Distributing plans to shake up computer industry distribution with the help ofAirborne Frei

OLYMPIC AIRWAYS PLANS MAJOR FLEET UPGRADEATHENS, Greece - Greece's state-owned airline, Olym

Martyn L.C. Reynolds was named vice president of relay trade management at P& O Containers (TFL) Ltd

Connell Rice & Sugar Co. purposely sabotaged a Food for Peace deal so that it could avoid taking a b

United Arab Shipping Co. is contemplating starting a new liner service that could give the company a

Clean Air legislation containing a reformulated gasoline amendment could reach the House of Represen

The Japanese trading house C. Itoh & Co. is offering a new hedging instrument for Dubai crude oil th

Rohm & Haas Co. of Philadelphia is expanding its presence in Southeast Asia with the purchase of 25

Railroads are holding talks that may remove a major obstacle to Southern Pacific Transportation Co.'

About 500 students from State University of New York Maritime College will begin an eight-week train

Coffee prices moved mostly lower Thursday on New York and London futures exchanges in response to a

Royal Insurance Holdings PLC, one of Britain's largest insurance companies, reported an after-tax lo

Some sellers of health insurance have been taking small business to the cleaners, federal officials

May 17, 1990 Copper Total, 6,939. Gold Total, .1,945,287.Silver Total, .255,31

May 17, 1990 JAPAN*Financial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

May 17, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

'GODDESS' RADIO SHIP HELD UP BY CUSTOMSTAIPEI, Taiwan - The radio ship Goddess of Democracy

Optimism is growing that China will retain its position as a most-favored trading nation even as Bei

The House and Senate are now considering legislation that would allow the Justice Department to esta

Tosoh Corp. and Shin-Daikyowa, two Japanese petrochemical manufacturers, have entered into discussio

Both foreign and domestic investment in Malaysian industry in the first four months of 1990 exceeded

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

House and Senate conferees remained deadlocked Thursday on trade bill provisions allowing increased

Amtrak authorization legislation is a package consisting of several elements that cannot be split in

The Commerce Department, buoyed by record high U.S. exports in March, appears increasingly confident

Atlantic Container Line should be trading profitably next year, Martin Lundberg, group managing dire

U.S. apparel companies are beginning to ship more U.S.-made fabric to Asia to manufacture goods for