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Shell International Petroleum Co. voiced "surprise and dismay" Wednesday over the Maritime Administr

Mar. 7, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low Vol.

China's main shipbuilder has announced plans to develop its technology and engineering and extend it

Voters in this city Tuesday overwhelmingly turned down a referendum that would have limited some ope

The Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury sold a total of $750 million worth of dollars for Japanes

S&P AFFIRMS AMBAC'S CLAIMS-PAYING ABILITYStandard & Poor's Insurance Rating Service affirmed

Connecticut insurance regulators see insurers' recent withdrawals from that state's automobile insur

The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is looking for increased trade with the United States in 1990, and t

Their currency is named for the sun, but with inflation of nearly 3,000 percent last year, Peruvians

The extraordinary events in Eastern Europe are opening doors for U.S.-style futures trading.

1618 (Mar. 7, 1990) Previous day - 1614 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

Consolidated Rail Corp. is pushing a plan to revamp the often contentious system by which railroads

The Federal Maritime Commission will launch an investigation Friday of Matson Navigation Co.'s propo

Global interest rates - including long-term U.S. lending costs - should begin falling by July by up

Empresa Lineas Maritimas Argentinas SA, the state-owned Argentine shipping line known as Elma, is up

GROUP OF 7 AGREES ON US DOLLAR CEILINGMonetary authorities from the Group of 7 major industr

The Bush administration plans a "very significant reduction" of U.S. export controls on goods potent

HOUSE UPHOLDS VETO ON EASTERN INTERVENTIONThe House of Representatives Wednesday upheld Pres

The Canadian government is considering imposing provincial sales taxes on the billions of dollars in

TRADE SURPLUS WIDENS IN WEST GERMANYFRANKFURT, West Germany - The West German trade surplus

Wed., Mar. 7, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

The U.S. Trade Representative has turned down a request by the U.S. pork industry to investigate rec

The local business community has to become better organized to cope with the city government's "Day

Keppel Corp., the diversified marine, property and financial group, Wednesday reported a record S$11

NEDLLOYD TO INCREASE SURCHARGE TO AUSTRALIANedlloyd Lines said it is increasing its currency

Mar. 7, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

INTEL TO SPEED UP CHIP-MAKING PROCESSSANTA CLARA, Calif. - Craig Barrett, Intel Corp.'s exec

From today, Lloyd's of London, the world's biggest insurance market, will sell motor vehicle cover d

Allied-Signal Inc. said it filed a petition with the U.S. Trade Representative Wednesday requesting

A proposed agreement for wide-ranging cooperation between business giants Mitsubishi Corp. and Daiml

SP SIGNS PACT TO BUY FIBER OPTICS FIRMSouthern Pacific Transportation Co. has signed a defin

The 13 steamship lines of the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement will maintain their 10 percent ov

Gov. William A. O'Neill's task force investigating the December rise in home heating fuel prices Wed

BEARD OIL CO. (Oklahoma City) - Robert A. Gaskill was named vice president of the newly organized Mi

CONSUMER CREDIT RISES $3.5 BILLIONU.S. consumers took on $3.5 billion more in consumer insta

It is better for Japan to raise interest rates so the yen will strengthen against the dollar and pri

Shipowners who ordered new bulk carriers last year may be getting a bargain, but freight rates over

The White House's plans to renominate Wendy Lee Gramm to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commissi

"Cartel dominated" liner shipping trades were attacked by one of Britain's leading shippers this wee

BUSH VOWS TO WORK FOR ELECTRONICS LEADPresident Bush promised Wednesday to work toward helpi