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Sept. 1, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

NIMO OMITS DIVIDEND, AGREES TO CUT SALARIESNiagara Mohawk Power Corp. said Friday it will no

World events usually pass by the pork belly pit with little mention as prices move along basic domes

REGIONAL BLOCS Doing Business in Israel: Meeting the Challenge of 1992. Sept. 11. Short<

GHANA - $40 million from the World Bank's International Development Association to improve the opera

PURCHASERS INDEX FALLS FOR 4TH STRAIGHT MONTHThe purchasing managers' index fell to 45.2 per

In a case with broad significance for U.S. labor, a U.S. court has ruled that foreign vessel owners

The revolutionary slogans that adorn much of Marxist Angola are not found inside the Cabinda Gulf Oi

Officials at the Delaware River Port Authority are taking heart from an offer by Conrail to let the

Japan shares some of the economic reform goals the United States is urging on it, Japanese Prime Min

The name of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union was misstated in an article h

Sept. 1, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

IMPORTS OF US BEEF ROSE BY 71 PERCENT IN JAPANKANSAS CITY, Kan. - Japan's imports of U.S. hi

Occidental Chemical Co. of Dallas raised prices for methylene chloride and chloroform by 2 cents a p

EC GIVES CLEARANCE TO HOSTILE PLESSEY BIDBRUSSELS, Belgium - A hostile $3.1 billion Anglo-Ge

The refusal of the U.S. economy to fall into a recession could propel thedollar higher in th

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

RAIL, UNION REACH SEPARATION AGREEMENTNORFOLK, Va. - Norfolk Southern Corp. has reached a vo

William Loftus will be named president of the American Short Line Railroad Association, reliable sou

Japanese commodities traders are projecting a continuing slide in soybean imports from the United St

More than $7 million in new equipment at an expanded Mitsui O.S.K. Ltd. terminal in Seattle is cutti

American Electric Power Service Corp. said it's scouting the market for spot coal needed in the four

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent)is as f

PHOSPHORUS FMC Corp. of Philadelphia is increasing its list price for phosphorus pentasulfid

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

* Kevin Commins - Currency Forecast 3A * Albert L. Kraus - Markets and Money 3A* Barbara Cas

For the second time in less than three months, the U.S. Customs Service voided a multimillion-dollar

The Soviet Union's independent labor movement is rapidly gaining strength. Yelena Maltseva i

EXPLOSION DESTROYS TAIWAN CHEMICAL PLANTTAIPEI, Taiwan - An explosion ripped through an unli

The U.S. Postal Service plans within the next several months to triple the number of gateway cities

Managing an ethnically diverse work force, rethinking business relations with China and pricing Cana

The National Grocers Association is strongly discouraging the practice of truckers backhauling hazar

Paring the supply of alcohol to alcohol-based chemical industries in Brazil to handle a pending shor

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

U.S. coal producers should be knocking on the doors of Britain's two new electricity generating comp

Already beset by a soaring trade deficit and a plunge in hard currency income, Chinese officials are

The Linde division of Union Carbide Corp. of Danbury, Conn. raised prices for industrial gases 7 per

Non-farm payrolls will grow only modestly in the next two years, without a recession, DRI/McGraw-Hil

The nation's biggest retailers Thursday issued mixed sales reports for August, with department and a

Three senators urged the Bush administration Thursday to make South Korea's exchange-rate policy par