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The Food & Drug Administration, in a long-delayed action, said it would allow Red No. 36, a common d

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

The Delaware & Hudson Railroad Co.'s bankruptcy trustee expects to have the railroad back in service

June tall oil rosin sales in the United States dropped 19.4 percent to 35.3 million pounds from May

The Puyallup Indians will vote on a proposed $162 million settlement of their land claims against th

Some call it basic marketing, some call it the cheesecake factor and some just stop and stare.

Hundreds of workers at major U.S. grain companies may lose their jobs as grain companies face a drou

Container traffic at Canada's leading general cargo port is continuing to grow at a healthy clip.

American President Cos. appears ready to fight any hostile takeover attempt. It announced We

Washington became the fourth state to reject an unfriendly takeover of Farmers Group Inc. by the Bat

The all-male stock market wrangled for years over whether to let women become brokers, but when the

London cocoa traders have expressed considerable dissent after the International Cocoa Organization

Australia is continuing to strengthen its banking links with China. National Australia Bank

DEUTSCHE BANK SIGNS BIG MANHATTAN LEASENEW YORK - Shearson Lehman Hutton said Deutsche Bank

CAROLINA FREIGHT BUILDS MOBILE TRAINING UNITCHERRYVILLE, N.C. - Carolina Freight Carriers Co

Two units of Singapore's maritime-related Keppel Group report improvedfinancial results, buo

The Port of Oakland has approved an agreement with Naviera Pacifico CA, a Venezuelan ocean carrier.<

Quake Holdings Ltd. is waiting on the sidelines to step in when the market for earthquake insurance

International economic sanctions trimmed South Africa's exports by 7 percent since 1985, but several

U.S. consumers were less confident again in July, largely because of uncertainties over the drought-

* Analysts Split Over Possible Soybean Futures Highs 6A * Buying in Bolivia 9A* Montreal's C

Statistics compiled on petrochemical trade for May 1988 by the National Petroleum Refiners Associati

The state Insurance Department is reviewing a rate increase proposal by Blue Cross and Blue Shield o

Analysts are split on whether Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures can make another run at season

Despite trade tensions between the two countries, Japan remains the top consumer of U.S. agricultura

The Federal Reserve Board Wednesday officially approved international capital standards for banks an

The job of port director has changed dramatically since the days of the early 1960s when it could be

The Journal of Commerce asked port officials in the Bay Area what they expected to see over the next

Senate Labor Chairman Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., Wednesday unveiled his proposals for long term health

SANDLER, TRAVIS & ROSENBERG, P.A. (Miami) - Edward M. Joffee and Ronald W. Gerdes were appointed mem

American businessmen have welcomed a relaxation of controls on U.S. computer sales to China, the fir

U.S. companies may be the biggest loser when the European Community wipes out its internal trade bar

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

The chief executive of Seagate Technology, a leading maker of computer disk drives, has said backed-

Put an aviation executive and a trial lawyer in the same room, and the argument will go like this:

Lufthansa German Airlines will add air freight capacity this year and next to handle expected growth

One might expect an ominous cloud to be hanging over Airbus Industrie these days. On June 26

New Teamsters union President William J. McCarthy replaced two of the labor group's five conference

As some shippers switch from barge transport to rail, a few grain-carrying railroads report they've