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MEXICO LISTS 1.8 PERCENT RISE IN ITS CONSUMER PRICESMEXICO CITY - Mexican consumer prices ro

A new emphasis on marketing has sparked a remarkable growth in business at the Port of Los Angeles

It's one thing to be given responsibility to do a job and quite another actually to make something h

John J. Stocker has mixed feelings over Pepsico's agreement with the Soviet Union to barter soft dri

Higher wage and benefit costs cut first-quarter earnings at Roadway Express Inc. and Carolina Freigh

* Gordon Platt - Credit Outlook 3A * EC 1992 Regulatory Roundup 5A* Don C. Becker - Publishe

More than a year after allegations of fraud in Chicago futures markets, the Chicago Mercantile Excha

Edward Iurchenko, general manager for Aeroflot in Canada, is extremely direct when he sizes up the S

Apr. 10, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low Vol.

After two years of negotiations, a group of Japanese companies agreed to increase substantially thei

May crude oil plunged 79 cents to close at an eight-month low of $17.65 a barrel on the New York Mer

Singapore is drawing up plans for a futures exchange that will list commodities traded in this regio

Deregulation of shipping between Australia and New Zealand is expected to be discussed soon between

The European Community, eager to show that its support for reforming East European states does not m

Brazilian coffee export registrations will open Monday, with exporters permitted to register 12 mont

NATIONAL STARCH TO BUY ADHESIVES BUSINESSNational Starch and Chemical Corp. of Los Angeles s

In a significant personnel shift, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has transferred one of the U.S.

PA. PHYSICIANS OPPOSE AUTO REFORM LAWHARRISBURG, Pa. - The Pennsylvania Medical Society, rep

Major disasters killed some 15,000 people in 1989, compared with 50,000 in 1988, and caused at least

QUARTEL SWORN IN AS FMC MEMBERDonald R. Quartel was sworn in as the newest member of the Fed

A day after its block-busting deal with the Soviet Union, Pepsico Inc. completed a more conventional

The Bush administration's plan to triple a fee on the value of cargo moving through U.S. ports break

A modest recovery in aluminum prices is likely in 1990 and 1991 mainlybecause of supply fund

Despite two pleas from U.S. sweetener users for an immediate 150,000- to 250,000- short-ton increase

Copper prices should average around 115 cents per pound (US$2,535 a metric ton) in 1990, and any cha

ARGENTINE RAIL UNION PLANS NATIONAL STRIKEBUENOS AIRES, Argentina - As the government took s

In heated special sessions last weekend, the Brazilian Congress voted to ax 21 of 24 government agen

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

NORTH AMERICA EXPO '90. April 17-19. Uniondale, N.Y. New York State Restaurant Association's

Horrendously poor telephone service provides a new market opportunity for express courier services i

An 11th-hour agreement by management to return to the bargaining table avoided the nationwide port s

The Port of Oakland has lined up members of its state congressional delegation in an effort to add f

In this issue: NEW ENGLAND: United Illuminating Co., New Haven, Conn.MID-ATLANTIC: General P

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

With roots dating to 1900, Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. has gone through many transformations over the

Despite the current austerity campaign and lack of buyers for cars, West Germany's Volkswagen AG is

SEA-LAND RUMORS. The rumors that have sprung up over the past several months about Sea-Land Service

Wanted: Tropical lot for relocation. Must move. Variety of neighbors preferred. Wet basement a must.

OPEC OIL OUTPUT HITS HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE '81NICOSIA, Cyprus - The Organization of Petroleum

The Scandinavian Star could become the most costly ever ferry accident if the vessel, insured for $2