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As South Korea prepares to open its cigarette market Friday after heated negotiations with the Unite

The U.S. dollar bounced back in New York Tuesday after being hammered lower by concerted selling by

NEW ZEALAND TO SELL ITS MERCHANT BANKWELLINGTON - The New Zealand government said Tuesday it

Arco Chemical Co. has begun construction of a 75-million-pound-a-year butanediol and derivatives fac

Led by strong household consumption and a surge of business investment, France's economy expanded at

Jeff Bridges is one of international air cargo's success stories; and if his long tenure at British

William O. Bailey will retire as vice chairman and a director of Aetna Life & Casualty Co. at the en

SOLAR FLARE MISSED, SECOND MAY HIT EARTHA blast of intense radiation that threatened to disr

To serve a stronger market for U.S.-Turkey trade, Turkish Cargo Lines began using a bigger vessel on

Insurance Commissioner Kenneth Merin will not make a decision on a $96-a-car annual surcharge on the

If the so-called Greenhouse Effect is leading to a warming of the earth, now may be the time to cons

Roger W. Hill was elected an executive vice president and director of Imperial Holly Corp., a sugar

Iowa Power & Light Co., Des Moines, has been selling record amounts of electricity during the drough

The government sued to force free elections and other reforms in the International Brotherhood of Te

Government officials differ over how the United States might best advance its international competit

The news reports sound ominously similar Drought continues in the Pacific Northwest. Farmers

The import-dependence of the U.S. economy is causing the U.S. merchandise trade deficit and is likel

Electronic data interchange is not a convenience for automobile manufacturers. It is an essential to

Two scientists at a Belgian university say their black milk can make deserts bloom. Marcel d

S. KOREA TRIES TO SETTLE DISPUTE WITH EUROPESEOUL, South Korea - South Korean electronics ma

The military and the non-union stevedoring company hired to perform work in Jacksonville previously

Longshoremen are resuming one-day walkouts at the Port of Montreal today following another breakdown

Joanne Wilson, 31, a personnel clerk for The Journal of Commerce, died Saturday in Easton Hospital,

Growth in Hong Kong's trade declined sharply last month from April, with imports registering an abso

UNITED BANK (Hartford) - Robert T. Gormley was named executive vice president and senior loan office

The government here is enlisting the help of local software houses to develop TradeNet, the electron

Holt Cargo Systems Inc., a private terminal operator in Gloucester, N.J., is the only facility along

The generic drug industry will see boom times in the next decade due to the aging of the U.S. popula

SLIP SLIP SLIDING away. Implementation of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's Au

CRUISE SHIP SAFETY WORRIES NTSB CHIEFA fuel leak that caused a March fire aboard the cruise

The Navy apparently won't budge in its award of an $8,820,000 contract for containers to a San Franc

After several years of unsuccessful negotiations with the Puyallup Indians over land claims, the Por

The Federal Maritime Commission has closed out its 2-year-old investigation of restrictions by Japan

Rising imports and falling exports pushed Britain's widest measure of its trade performance to a mon

Surrounded by isobar maps, computers and a foot-tall pile of paper on his desk, Norton Strommen is t

An auto rental insurance plan is now available for anyone who pays for a rental car using a Gold Mas

ISRAELI PROFESSOR GETS GO-AHEAD FOR DRILLINGTEL AVIV, Israel - An Israeli professor will rec

The U.S. economy shows no signs of accelerating inflation between now and the first half of next yea

Computer software shouldn't be protected by China's copyright law when legislation is finalized, acc

The Securities and Exchange Commission Monday charged an analyst with Morgan Stanley Group Inc. with