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In addition to headlines of the gales which had racked Britain the previous day, Friday's editions o

Illinois Central Railroad Co. earned $8 million in the fourth quarter onrevenue of $139.8 million. T

The Department of Transportation is not properly managing its new drug- testing program for workers

European insurers are bracing themselves after last week's storms for what could be their largest ev

For the week ended Jan. 20, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's majorrailroads, which is

A spokesman for Onomichi Dockyard Co. denied a published report that Taiwan's Evergreen Marine Corp.

The hull of the Avianca plane that crashed in New York last Thursday was insured for $5.3 million, a

An estimated 1,000 insurance producers protesting commission reductions swarmed into a public hearin

WAITING PERIOD ENDS FOR ATLAS-ICI MERGERThe proposed merger between Atlas Powder and Britain

JAPAN'S ASAHI BOOSTS STAKE IN BELGIUM'S AGBRUSSELS, Belgium - The Japanese group Asahi Mutua

THE WISH LIST KEEPS GROWING. Aluminum industry executives wish for: a recession-less economy

An Occidental Chemical Co. official at Occidental Petroleum Co.'s Los Angeles headquarters said Frid

Several dockworkers union locals in eastern Canada are preparing to follow Montreal's lead by breaki

Monsanto Co. will extend an eight-year joint biomedical research agreement with Washington Universit

Investor Jon Huntsman has enlisted the aid of GE Plastics in his battle to wrest away Aristech Chemi

The president of the largest farm organization in the European Community said French farmers cannot

The Soviet Union has not bought any sugar on the world market in the past two days and has no plans

West Germans have registered mixed reactions to East Germany's plan to liberalize its joint venture

Bechtel Group has landed a $30 million pipeline project in Singapore, its first turnkey construction

Influential business groups are about to mount a coordinated congressional effort to end a customs u

The Trading With Israel column published on Page 4A in The Journal of Commerce of Thursday, Jan. 25,

Brazilian President-elect Fernando Collor de Mello said he will send a government economic team to W

An investment group led by the former head of Macmillan Inc. said Thursday it had agreed to acquire

The dollar will remain in a narrow trading range until a clearer picture emerges of thecondition of

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

FED EASING PREDICTED TO SPARK GNP IN '90Easing begun last year by the Federal Reserve will l

Japan's Finance Ministry is concerned about the growing popularity of program trading and its effect

CANADA TO RESUME AID TO SOUTHEAST ASIA AREACanada, saying the world must make peace in Cambo

JAPAN'S OUTPUT SLOWS; INFLATION RATE SOARSThe Japanese inflation rate soared and production

* Kevin Commins - Currency Forecast 3A * Leo Ryan - Trade Talk From Canada 4A* JofC Industri

The world's automakers are loading up their cars with advanced new safety technology as a way to mak

Fri., Jan. 26, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

The number of workers going on strike or returning to work was small in January and should barely af

Talks between U.S. and Soviet maritime delegations ended last week without an agreement. "Th

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index declined in the week ended Friday, as higher plywood

Sea-Land Service Inc. Friday announced assignments for nine executives in its Americas division in t

James Herman, newly elected port commission president of the Port of San Francisco, lashed out at th

Stolt Tankers and Terminals (Holdings) SA posted a profit of $70.9 million for the fiscal year endin

Sause Brothers Ocean Towing Co. said it has launched the tank barge Klamath on its maiden voyage.

LEGISLATIVE SUPPORT always seems close at hand for the Port of Charleston, and once again South Caro