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THE OCEAN FUTURES MARKET attempted to bounce upward last week, but failed and slipped backto the low

CUBA REPORTS OPENING OF JOINT-VENTURE HOTELVARADERO, Cuba - President Fidel Castro, saying g

IMPERIAL TOBACCO TO RESTRUCTUREImperial Tobacco Ltd., maker of John Player cigarettes, annou

Shedding nicknames like "Chateau de Bubba" and "Cowboy Cabernet," a West Texas winery has proven bey

1313 (May 11, 1990) Previous day - 1317 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

May 11, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

Back when U.S. industry dominated every new technology from the light bulb to plastic wrap, few peop

ATLANTA -THE INTERNATIONAL Intermodal Expo held here last week has changed a lot since it began seve

* Gordon Platt - Currency Forecast 3A * Mark Magnier - Trade Talk From the West Cost 4A* Jof

Mexico will become one of the top exporters of textiles and apparel to the United States in the comi

PRODUCER PRICES, RETAIL SALES FALLProducer prices and retail sales fell in April, the govern

Some top Quebec business leaders are sounding an alarm that a divorce from English Canada would be c

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

The Soviet Union is buying U.S. corn from Japanese trading houses as some large U.S.-based companie

Underwriters of crippled ferry Espresso Trapani, Genoa-based Societa Italiana Assicurazioni e Riassi

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

The recent breakthrough in plans for a single currency for East and West Germany will help end the s

The Bush administration's proposals to ease strategic export controls are too little and too late, a

While the 1990s undoubtedly will be much tougher for the car carriers than the 1980s, the three larg

The handful of deep-sea shipping lines that specialize in the transportation of cars and trucks face

A less profitable, more complicated future lies ahead for the currently prosperous global fleet of 3

Clean air legislation pending in Congress will take a heavy toll on high- sulfur coal mining in Ohio

If states want to provide health insurance for residents who remain uncovered, they'll probably have

A lobbying organization representing issuers of junk bonds says revisions to the rating and reserve

ILL. EXCHANGE SELLS LONDON UNITED UNITSTwo Illinois Insurance Exchange syndicates have been

Saudi Arabia, which has pledged to cut its oil output by 430,000 barrels a day under the new Organiz

MONTANA POWER CO. (Butte, Mont.) - Frank V. Woy, executive vice president of finance and amember of

NYMEX SHIFTS TRADING IN PROPANE FUTURESThe New York Mercantile Exchange's propane futures tr

Assurances Generales de France (AGF), the second largest French nationalized insurer, signed a lette

UKRAINIAN MINERS HALT WORK OVER ILLNESSESAbout 10,000 Ukrainian coal miners temporarily stop

Horizontal drilling technology, introduced to the North Sea for the first time, could yield almost h

Lithuania, locked in an economic blockade that has dried up most of its energy supplies, began limit

For the second time since 1987, a municipal bond insurance corporation is putting stock up for publ

The Tennessee Valley Authority said it bought 19,700 tons of coal for its Kingston, Tenn., plant und

Report Predicts Drop In Domestic Oil OutputThe U.S. Department of Energy said last week it e

Ethyl Corp. last week asked for government approval to allow use of an additive with unleaded gasoli

Business executives, politicians and academics around the country are participating in a month-long

Formosa Plastics Corp. is considering a US$7 billion petrochemical investment in southeastern China,

The changing environment in which railroads find themselves in the 1990s is the subject of three day

The Mexican government has discovered that advanced technology doesn't solve every problem, so it's