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The U.S. dollar rose slightly Wednesday, while the pound sterling reversed its morning weakness and

Wed., Mar. 9, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

Masato Yanagi's store wouldn't raise an eyebrow in the United States. In Japan, it smells of revolut

The Federal Maritime Commission's recent disciplinary actions against ocean carriers in the North At

Christensen Leaves Surface Mining PostJed Christensen, director of the Office of Surface Min

IT'S UNOFFICIALLY OFFICIAL: The idea of merging Washington's two major mining industry lobbying grou

Enterprise Oil Reports North Sea DiscoveryEnterprise Oil, one of Britain's leading independe

ALLIANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS CORP. (Littleton, Mass.) - Koji Kaneko was named president and representati

Arco Chemical Co. is increasing its methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) capacity as a result of a new

Peruvian President Alan Garcia, who has run Latin America's most radical economic experiment for the

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

With little fanfare, Conrail recently opened the 13th terminal in a network designed to capture more

California's economy, aided by growth in manufacturing, will continue to lead the nation's economic

Port commissioners in Seattle plan to launch an international search on Friday for a new executive d

EC Plans to Lift Some Import BarriersThe European Community will scrap quantitative restrict

The state-owned Electronics Trade and Technology Development Corp. will open a sales office and ware

It's nothing but kid-glove treatment for this stone warrior and his companions, insured for $20 mill

Producer members of the International Cocoa Organization have refused to discuss with consumers a lo

One growing import for Great Britain is a commodity that other countries generally shun: hazardous w

The Resins & Specialty Chemicals division of National Starch & Chemical Corp. announced price increa

Leading gold trader John H. Hanemann, elected Tuesday as chairman of the Commodity Exchange Inc., pl

Railway Progress Institute, joint seminar with CSX Transportation on New Partnership for a New Era,

The Swedish government will put forward its plans on Monday to calm thestormy waters surrounding the

Still recovering from a damaging four-week closure, London's new Docklands airport is to gain four k

A joint Transportation Department-Federal Aviation Administration task force may provide ways to imp

Maersk May Resume Vancouver ServiceVANCOUVER, British Columbia - Maersk Line may resume call

The Reagan administration announced Wednesday it is lifting sanctions on sales of new high technolog

A potential George Bush presidency should mean more of the same type of economic policies now pursue

Six weeks before Chrysler Corp. renews sales in Europe, the automaker has signed up only a sixth of

Non-OPEC oil producing nations met Wednesday to debate moves aimed at halting plunging oil prices, b

Americans spent $8.3 billion keeping warm in February, $340 million more than normal for the month,

Paper napkins, antibiotics, granite and porcelain are among the goods that Chinese officials hope wi

Shippers attending the Shippers National Freight Claim Council's 14th annual meeting are promised an

A tug crew took pictures of a gunman firing at them in broad daylight Tuesday in Jamaica Bay near Ke

Mexico's government, committed to a new anti-inflation program that includes an exchange rate freeze

A plastics industry executive has suggested that design engineers can expect more metals replacement

Transportation Secretary James Burnley has moved to strengthen the 100 percent airport security comp

Housing construction plunged 14 percent in 1987 from the previous year as rising interest rates and

The events of Super Tuesday have sounded the death knell for the protectionist Gephardt amendment to

Hesse Stands Behind Ideas on CompetitionFederal Regulatory Commission Chairman Martha Hesse