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HAUGHEY DEFENDS EC ON S. AFRICAN SANCTIONSDUBLIN, Ireland - Irish Prime Minister Charles Hau

The Tokyo Commodity Exchange for Industry announced Wednesday it will tighten regulations on the amo

Singapore's rubber brokerages are sanguine about an incursion of competitorsfrom Japan this

Rhone-Poulenc SA, France's state-owned chemicals and pharmaceuticals group, earned consolidated afte

QUADRAX, HEXCEL LINK TO DEVELOP COMPOSITESQuadrax Corp. of Portsmouth, R.I., announced the s

Monsanto Chemical Co. and Vista Chemical Co. jointly announced Wednesday the formation of a plastics

ORGANIC PEROXIDES Atochem North America Inc.'s Organic Peroxides division has increased pric

PRIVATE POLISH FARMERS TO GET EC ASSISTANCEBRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Commission appro

Legislative and industry opponents will square off Thursday at a congressional hearing convened to a

COMEX TRIMS MARGINS ON GOLD AND SILVERThe initial margin requirement for gold and silver wil

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago2/21 2/20

Soybean and soybean product prices on the Chicago Board of Trade remained firm Wednesday despite lat

Despite high hopes by soybean oil bulls, India is unlikely to return to the U.S. market in 1990 to u

The proposed merger between the New York Mercantile Exchange and the Commodity Exchange Inc. would n

Ask David Miller, president of the Toy Manufacturers of America, where the U.S. toy market stands in

The frenzied economic growth that Los Angeles experienced in the 1980s has slowed but statistics ind

The Los Angeles-area economy will grow faster in 1990 than the nation as a whole, due largely to con

US-JAPANESE TALKS ON LUMBER TRADE FAILThe U.S. and Japanese lumber industries ended one day

Canadian business executives agreed Wednesday that the federal budget unveiled late Tuesday should h

The Bush administration pressed Japan Wednesday to open its market to U.S. equipment capable of conn

Yugoslavia's deputy prime minister said Wednesday that his government's anti- inflationary plan is w

A subsidiary of Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Corp. announced Wednesday that it plans to establish

Several U.S. trade organizations are mounting high-profile missions to Panama over the next month in

FOREIGN TRADE SPURS NEW YORK ECONOMYForeign trade and investment were among the major pluses

Growth in China's economy will slow further this year as a result of "major problems far from resolv

Trade prospects look increasingly somber for the initial months of the next government, which will t

WHOLESALE PRICES FALL SLIGHTLY IN W. GERMANYFRANKFURT, West Germany - The West German wholes

The U.S. dollar rose slightly Wednesday after the U.S. stock market held up relatively well followin

JAPANESE SOURCE SAYS RATE HIKE TO BE 0.5 PERCENTA rise in the official discount rate is immi

The United States and Czechoslovakia have scheduled the start of investment and tax treaty negotiati

Wed., Feb. 21, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

* Trading With Panama 4A * Tom Connors - Washington 8A* Plight of Soviet Railroads Worsens 2

The Senate is moving toward a House provision requiring double hulls and double bottoms on ocean tan

BILLS AIM TO REFORM R.I. WORKERS COMPPROVIDENCE, R.I. - Rhode Island Gov. Edward DiPrete has

A proposal to increase excise taxes paid by non-U.S. reinsurers would pass the cost on to commercia

The administration of Gov. James Florio has launched its second assault on the insurance industry in

Todd Shipyards Corp., struggling to emerge from Chapter 11 reorganization proceedings as workers dem

Two ocean carriers are asking Samuel K. Skinner, U.S. transportation secretary, to reject a Maritime

ANCHORAGE - The skipper who commanded the Exxon Valdez before Joseph Hazelwood testified that Exxon

The Maritime Administration is considering requests by several companies for permission to sell vess