Latest news

Beginning April 1, Norfolk Southern will accept all applications to load grain and grain products on

The Navy's Military Sealift Command wants the Federal Maritime Commission to get an injunction to bl

Iraqis Attack Tanker Off Kharg IslandMANAMA, Bahrain - Iraqi warplanes attacked a supertanke

Northern Air Freight Inc.'s fourth quarter net income increased to $287,595, or 16 cents a share, fr

Subway Off Limits During Senate VoteWASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate has banned tourists and oth

Amoco and Dome Seek Buy-out Hearing DateCALGARY, Alberta - Amoco Canada Petroleum Co. and Do

Home heating oil prices in two New England states have stabilized in the last few weeks while suppli

Mobil Oil (Thailand) Ltd. is attempting to enlarge its limited presence in the booming retail oil-pr

Venezuela is still vulnerable to oil-price swings, but it has come up with a policy that helps assu

Northern States Power Co. is off to a roaring start with its $1 billion Sherco 3 coal-fired generati

Southern Co., one of the nation's largest coal buyers, said it reached agreements with a group of Fl

Singapore's Asian dollar market expanded to a record $245 billion at the end of last year, according

Kentucky's coal owners could be paying $48 million annually in new taxes after the state Supreme Cou

NRC Fines NiMo For ViolationsSYRACUSE, N.Y. - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission fined Niagar

Westmoreland Reduces Va. Mine Work ForceWestmoreland Coal Co., Philadelphia, said it laid of

Standard & Poor's Corp. said it will restructure the broad sector indexes comprising its 500 Composi

BANK OF BOSTON (Boston) - Richard W. Dalrymple, head of the Massachusetts banking division, assumed

President Reagan is planning to name an interagency committee to develop an administration consensus

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

Tue., March 15, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

HOW TO USE: These trade leads are supplied through the World Trade Center NETWORK, a service

HOW TO USE: Trade leads on this page are listed according to industry. Codes preceding each

Several years ago, Spartus Corp. started planning to reduce imports of components and shift the manu

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it found four samples of U.S. pork with illegal sulfamethazi

Agriculture Minister Takashi Sato said Tuesday the government plans to take proper measures to settl

Ex-Japanese Official Sentenced for BriberyThe Tokyo District Court Tuesday sentenced Nobuyuk

One of the United States' major computer companies, Digital Equipment Corp., has become the first su

3M Opens Korean Hub For Automotive SectorST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota Mining and Manufacturin

The government's new trade-and-aid program to help U.S. farmers by sending emissaries to foreign cou

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has withdrawn a key objection to New Hampshire's emergency e

March 15, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

West German demand for high-octane gasoline has soared because of a ban on leaded regular fuel that

Japanese oil buyers will soon begin receiving shipments of crude oil from North Yemen in order to av

Japanese Oil Companies Expect Saudi DiscountsSaudi Arabia is likely to offer discounts to Ja

Oil man T. Boone Pickens said the petroleum industry will recover soon, but never to the heights rea

An 83-0 vote Monday in the Senate ratifying sharp U.S. production cuts of chlorofluorocarbons, or CF

Production of plastics resins increased 9.7 percent in 1987, reaching 55.8 billion pounds, according

El Paso Products Co. is increasing the price of all grades of Rextac amorphous polyalphaolefin by 5

Union Carbide Corp.'s UCAR emulsion systems group is raising the price on vinyl acetate homopolymer

Soltex Polymer Corp. has announced a 3-cent-a-pound increase on all homopolymer and copolymer grades