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The U.S. dollar declined slightly Monday in meandering trading after a round of joint central bank i

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

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

KELLWOOD TO ACQUIRE SAIPAN MANUFACTURERSST. LOUIS - Kellwood Co., manufacturer and marketer

While shipowners praise the Norwegian International Ship Registry, labor leaders in Norway say it ha

MEXICO, US TO SCRAP $3.5 BILLION LOAN PACTMEXICO CITY - Mexican and U.S. authorities have de

The volume of express mail handled by the U.S. Postal Service increased 20 percent during its first

Fortune tellers were doing a roaring trade as Asia awaited the arrival of the Year of the Snake.

Down East Mainers who make their living from the sea are by tradition an independent lot. But one ai

Insurers will face new financial reporting requirements in 1990 that will affect how they report rei

One says simply, "It's a matter of survival," while another asserts it is a chance to be "evangelist

That bastion of paperwork, the Internal Revenue Service, is taking a giant step into the computer ag

Representatives of only four industries showed up for the public hearing, but the U.S. International

Britain's General Electric Co. PLC and Siemens AG of West Germany Monday revised the structure of th

CHRYSLER NAMES SAMPO DISTRIBUTOR IN TAIWANHIGHLAND PARK, Mich. - Chrysler Motors Corp. has a

U.S. petrochemical companies exported 118 million pounds of styrene monomer in November, worth a tot

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development will go ahead with its own accord on hazar

A five-day-old strike by office employees of Puerto Rico's state-owned shipping line is slowing deli

Feb. 6, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange*PrevClose High Low Vo

Indonesia's Garuda airline plans to invest nearly $2 billion in a score of wide-bodied jets to suppo

AMERICAN LIKELY TO BUY 60 MD-11S, 100 MD-80S NEW YORK - American Airlines is expected to a

NON-FARM PRODUCTIVITY UNCHANGED IN QUARTERSeasonally adjusted productivity of U.S. non-farm

Kenan Transport Co. earned $880,000, or 37 cents a share, in the fourth quarter of 1988, 1 percent h

The opportunity seems to be at hand for the Port of Boston to attain a long absent rail connection t

1553 (Feb. 6, 1989) Previous day - 1607 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

Conference on Optical Fiber Communications, Feb. 6-9. George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Te

Canadians looking for assurance that their country won't be ignored by Washington now that a free tr

Throughout the 700 or so years of its recorded existence, Chalco has had its share of troubles - eru

ACCOUNT SURPLUS ROSE LAST YEAR IN S. KOREASEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's current account

Talley Industries Inc. said Monday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its autom

Chemical Leaman Tank Lines Inc., one of the nation's largest haulers of bulk commodities, shut down

CP Rail expects one of its shipper customers to file "fairly soon" the first request for arbitration

EC WARNS JAPAN OF TRADE GAP DANGERSThe European Community's trade deficit with Japan is "ver

THE NAME'S THE THING. There is no better illustration of the fact that EDI is about people a

U.S. gasoline demand is expected to rise by 1 percent to 2 percent in 1989, continuing a recent tren

Attracted by an industrious work force, good road links with the rest of Europe and abundant supplie

Hong Kong Islands Line said it has looked at dropping its Far East-North America service. Th

Some four months after taking control of the Southern Pacific Transportation Co., Philip F. Anschutz

FAMILIES TO REVEAL DATA ON PAN AM CRASHFamily members of passengers killed in the crash of P

BROYHILL FILLS POST AT NC COMMERCE DEPT.RALEIGH, N.C. - Jim Broyhill, a former U.S. senator