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Farmers Insurance Group has announced an average 5.9 percent automobile insurance rate increase for

A slowdown in public works projects helped push the level of new construction contracts down 3 perce

At the stroke of 10 a.m. on Oct. 31 a war will break out in the European oil markets. The fi

The government of Poland is asking Western democracies for $1.5 billion in new money through 1990 to

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. accused two European competitors of selling synthetic rubber at more t

Sept. 27, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

A Sept. 22 story in The Journal of Commerce about growth trends at the nation's international trade

THAMES SHIPPING QUITS US-MIDEAST CONFERENCEThames Shipping Ltd. quit the conference that ser

The European Community's executive commission Wednesday agreed on the final text of a controversial

Surging Brazilian coffee embarkations still remain much weaker than record export registrations wou

Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell accused President Bush Wednesday of being overly timid and ur

Shares in the Spain Fund soared by over 40 percent in heavy trading Tuesday in what analysts and tra

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

Choice Courier Systems Inc.'s recent acquisition has made this messenger company a $40-million-plus

Wheat imports in the Soviet Union are likely to decline in the future as agricultural reforms begin

As Massachusetts implements the nation's first universal health insurance system, college officials

TRADE SURPLUS SOARS BY 124 PERCENT IN HONG KONGHong Kong posted a provisional trade surplus

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

Auto production and sales are dropping, and that could mean layoffs around the time the United Auto

FLUOR UNIT, DUKE POWER ANNOUNCE JOINT VENTURENEW YORK - Fluor Daniel Inc., a subsidiary of F

A powerful new force in the information technology services industry will be created when Istel Grou

THE LIGHTS ARE COMING BACK ON in Charleston, S.C., ruined by Hurricane Hugo on Sept. 22. For

James Pugh, executive director of the Port of Houston, told delegates to the first annual Bulk Trans

Contship Containerlines Inc. is moving its U.S. corporate headquarters to Virginia Beach, Va., in an

Both industrial and developing nations are pressing the United States to cut its budget deficit and

MEXICANS DUMPING, CEMENT MAKERS CHARGEA group of seven cement manufacturers have complained

Fears of renewed bloodshed in Cambodia could prove a psychological trip-wire for a sell-off in neigh

KEEPING UP WITH NEW FACES isn't as easy as it used to be in the port business. Pat Jones, vi

Federal transportation officials approved a $60 million grant to begin construction of an airport in

ARIZ. TO SEEK HEARING ON HOYLAKE-BAT ISSUEThe Arizona Insurance Department said Wednesday it

A top official of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Tuesday that he wants U.S. commodity

British Airways PLC is turning to its shareholders to raise 320 million ($515 million) to help fund

The Tennessee Valley Authority awarded contracts for coal needed at its Widows Creek station in Stev

The Jeep, once the workhorse of the Army and rugged outdoorsmen, is becoming a status symbol for sty

The electronics and high-technology industry, the symbol of entrepreneurial creativity through most

The U.S. Congress enacted the Carriage of Goods By Sea Act (Cogsa) in 1936, attempting to protect sh

The Georgia Ports Authority says Zim Israel Navigation Co. and related companies are "blowing hot an

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Year9/27 9/26 Ch

Wed., Sept. 27, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

The flood of up to 100,000 skilled young East German workers into West Germany is expected to spur l