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The minivan market will boom in the early 1990s and then slow down for the rest of the decade but Ch

The nation's big retailers posted mediocre November sales results Thursday, but in a favorable omen

Tom Carvel, the gravelly voiced pitchman for Fudgie the Whale, Cookie Puss and other Carvel Corp. co

ALLSTATE WILL EXPAND OHIO OFFICE, ADD JOBSHUDSON, Ohio - Allstate Insurance Co. officials sa

British Airways' new managing director for cargo, Mel Williams, is confident he will have his first

An East German economic recovery like the one that transformed war-ravaged West Germany into one of

AUTHORITIES REAFFIRM SEAWAY CLOSING DATETransportation authorities Thursday reiterated the c

International finance experts this week shoved aside trade and aid packages such as the United State

Lawyers for Exxon Valdez skipper Joseph Hazelwood have asked the courts to dismiss criminal charges

A 55-acre container terminal to be built for Hanjin Shipping Co. at the Port of Long Beach now looks

DEVELOPMENT BANK EASES LENDING POLICIESThe Inter-American Development Bank said Thursday tha

Nov. 30, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

On the day it emerged that China has moved into top spot among importers of American wheat, the auth

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

Hungarian officials urged American executives to invest in their country, saying that it could emerg

W. GERMANY REPORTS WHOLESALE SALES RISEFRANKFURT, West Germany - West German wholesale sales

Neil Balter lives a jet-set lifestyle, and it's getting confusing. The 29-year-old business

Residents of this tiny but economically powerful island go to the polls Saturday in the freest elect

The decision last week by one of Lloyd's of London's largest underwriting syndicates to abandon the

Hurricane Hugo claimed its second victim among small S.C. insurance companies this week with West Co

B.A.T. Industries is strongly denying allegations that it was plan ning to invite French insurer Axa

A.R. SAVAGE & SON INC. (Tampa, Fla.) - Richard Garcia was named vice president, agency and operation

General cargo volume for October at the Port of Hampton Roads was about 12.1 percent greater than a

Toyota Motor Manufacturing U.S.A. opened the latest addition to its Camry automobile plant here this

More than 100 tins of gourmet chocolate chip cookies are taking to the skies each day as part of a p

The principal eastbound rate-making group in the trans-Pacific shippingmarket said it will expand it

Hewlett-Packard Co. has unveiled a software package that allows people using different programs on d

Angry truckers won a slight reduction in scheduled toll increases of up to 67 percent on the Massach

A previously announced deal under which the Blue & Gold Co. would pay Crowley Maritime Corp. an esti

Alfred Herrhausen, head of West Germany's largest bank and a prominent symbol of the country's capit

The U.S. Postal Service is cranking up its Christmas airmail network that's designed to relieve some

A story headlined, "Shippers in Hong Kong Fight Two Service Contract Battles," on Page 1A of The Jou

The World Bank's International Finance Corp. will make large investments in Brazil's petrochemicals

President Bush has escalated U.S. efforts to oust Panama's leader Manuel Antonio Noriega by banning

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

Shell Oil Co. agreed in an out-of-court settlement announced Wednesday to pay $20 million for a 1988

HAUSER JOINS VENTURE TO DEVELOP EXTRACTSHauser Chemical Research Inc., of Boulder, Colo., an

NATIONAL FOREIGN TRADE COUNCIL (Washington) - Charles E. Hugel, chairman and chief executive officer

One of the biggest agricultural problems of the next decade will be a shortage of railcars for hauli

The story headlined "P/C Industry Reports Drop in Earnings for Third Quarter," on Page 9A in The Jou