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The U.S. dollar was mixed Tuesday, after rising on Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's Washing

CALIFORNIANS HAVE HEARD about safe sex. But "safe surplus lines?" Indeed. Excess and surplus

S. KOREA, AUSTRALIA DISCUSS BEEF TRADESEOUL, South Korea - South Korea and Australia Tuesday

Continued support by export credit agencies abroad will help to assure Hong Kong's success ahead of

The federal bankruptcy court overseeing the Delaware & Hudson Railway Co.'s reorganization will hear

The United Mine Workers of America announced Tuesday that union members employed by Pittston Coal Gr

European shipping lines are planning to send information about container shipments to the next port

Sea Containers Ltd. announced Tuesday that the cost of breaking agreements to sell its container ass

Britain said Tuesday it would unilaterally lift its ban on new investment in South Africa after fail

There's a saying that anyone who believes Boeing Co. isn't critical to Washington state's economy ne

Feb. 20, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

When the United States fell into a recession in the early 1980s, no regionwent down harder t

The United States and Czechoslovakia Tuesday began negotiations toward a bilateral trade accord that

JAPAN BUILDERS EXPECT ORDERS TO INCREASE 16 PERCENTMajor Japanese construction firms expect

Feb. 20, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Exports by this nation's electronics industry should grow 9.6 percent this year, to $18 billion, acc

CFTC DELAYS HEARING ON NYMEX GAS FUTURESThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission postponed i

CSX Transportation Inc. is recalling 1,000 furloughed employees on Feb. 26, at its freight car repai

The Massachusetts Port Authority is always happy about taking business awayfrom New York, bu

William J. McDonald, an attorney who played a major role in the formation of Consolidated Rail Corp.

EC OILSEED CRUSHINGS UP 6 PERCENT, OIL WORLD SAYSROTTERDAM, Netherlands - EC crushing of soy

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and General Dynamics Corp., maker of the widely used F-16 warplane, have

RISING INTEREST RATES OVERSEAS and signs of a rebound in U.S. economic growth have persuaded the Fed

JAPANESE FIRM ENTERS EAST GERMAN MARKETKYODO, Japan - Kao Corp., a major chemical company, w

The chance of a major San Francisco Bay Area earthquake is twice as high as previously thought - abo

AMBASE RETAINS FIRM TO SELL COVER UNITSAmBase Corp. has retained First Boston Corp. to offer

EC internal policy changes and growing external pressures will radically transform the shape of the

Hydro-Quebec's plan to expand hydroelectric production and sell power to the United States will enda

Executives of All Nippon Airways Co. announced an agreement Tuesday to create - along with other Jap

Gross national product in China last year increased just under 4 percent over 1988 to 1.56 trillion

Brazilian shipboard workers are expected to return to their jobs today after a federal labor court i

FED COMMITTEE ISSUES GNP, PRICE FORECASTSThe Federal Open Market Committee Tuesday said U.S.

Copper prices were higher Tuesday reflecting solid demand from the Japanese market and from merchant

The Federal Maritime Commission rejected an effort by two ocean carriers in the Australia-New Zealan

EUROTUNNEL, CONTRACTOR NAME PROJECT MANAGEREurotunnel, the Anglo-French group that owns and

Auto insurance reform is in the wind in Rhode Island - if lawyer-legislators don't scuttle it.

Although there is no way to know what the Russian wheat aphid population will be in the United State

Brazil's largest vegetable oils processing company, Ceval Agroindustrial SA,plans to invest

The Interstate Commerce Commission deferred action Tuesday on a Justice Department request to discip

CATERPILLAR EXPANDS DISTRIBUTION SERVICEPEORIA, Ill. - Caterpillar Logistics Services Inc. h