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Though their markets are flourishing, New York's largest futures exchanges appear to be suffering fr

AIR CARGO Equipment suppliers warned airlines against taking a shortsighted approach to carg

Syntechrom and Pronor, two Brazilian newcomers to the fine chemicals field, are launching an import

The Federal Reserve Board voted 5-to-1 Wednesday to accept, in principle, compromise international c

The re-election this week of Arthur Scargill, widely considered the most militant of the country's m

The number of oil and gas drilling rigs working in the United States dropped again last week, fallin

Coal shippers, transportation companies and utilities say implementation of electronic data intercha

Diplomats and shipping experts said this week that Iran might sow moremines in the Persian Gulf now

Estimated Earnings Jump at Mobil Corp.Mobil Corp. reported estimated earnings for the fourth

Japan will import less liquefied petroleum gas from Saudi Arabia this year, industry sources said.

Iraqi warplanes slammed an Exocet missile into a Cypriot supertanker on charter to Iran in a predawn

Home heating oil prices nudged slightly higher last week, but seasonal price increases are only half

The departure of James McJunkin as port director at Long Beach, Calif., is the latest example of a t

Fokker Delays Delivery Of 8 Planes to SwissairFokker Aircraft BV has delayed for a month del

Another Hong Kong shipowner is dipping his toe into the market for vessel capacity. Internat

Some of 24,000 dairy cows being shipped from the United States to Indonesia are loaded aboard a live

Carl Fischer, Brazil's largest private shipowner-operator and second-largest exporter of frozen oran

The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, already besieged by court orders and labor woes, now faces thre

The Illinois Insurance Exchange has given new life to the fable of the tortoise and the hare.

In a report remarkable for its conflicting signals, the government revealed the U.S. economy grew at

Japan's crude oil imports fell to an 18-year low in 1987, largely because it imported more refined o

Houston Ship Repair Gets Marad ContractThe Maritime Administration has awarded a $933,248 co

U.S. government and industry officials are concerned that increasing Japanese government criticism o

"What we have here is a failure to communicate." That line from the 1960s film "Cool Hand Lu

The International Longshoremen's Association has agreed to continue working under its contract for a

Bethlehem Steel Corp. has announced plans to sell its shipyards in Singapore and in Beaumont and Por

Top officials of Toshiba Corp. outlined Wednesday their company's measures to prevent a recurrence o

Indonesia said Wednesday it did not agree with a U.S. call to abolish farm subsidies and restriction

Taiwan Leader Named As Acting Party ChiefTAIPEI, Taiwan - Leaders of the ruling Nationalist

South Korea to Open Advertising MarketSEOUL, South Korea - South Korea will partially open i

About 20 top industrialists and business leaders from the United States begin two days of talks toda

China has so many people that U.S. agricultural trade experts can't help but look longingly at the m

WORLD BANK CHINA - $170 million to the Agricultural Bank of China for production and constru

Lawmakers from crawfish country are boiling over President Reagan's suggestion that spending $200,00

The U.S. dollar declined Wednesday on a bearish reading of the fourthquarter U.S. gross national pro

After selling heavily toward the end of last year, foreign investors are expected to buy more Japane

Japan's plans to launch a financial futures market by March 1988 will not be a major threat to the l

Clark Equipment Co. announced the sale of its West German finance subsidiary, Clark Credit Bank GmbH

The Tokyo Stock Exchange plans to launch computerized trading in bond futures in late April or early

The U.S. dollar is likely to end 1988 at about 145.00 yen and 1.80 deutsche marks, two Hong Kong eco