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SCM Chemicals is increasing its list price for Cadmolith and cadmium pure color pigments, effective

Thermo Electron Corp. said its Crusader Engine Division is entering into a long-term contract with Y

The U.S. dollar was unchanged against the deutsche mark and up slightly against the Japanese yen Mon

Merrill Lynch & Co. began the new year by quietly ending activities of the consulting group at its e

A Massachusetts company is seeking to break into the Japanese market for recreational sailboats.

The officially sponsored cartel of banks agreed Monday on the way negative interest rates may be imp

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

Leading Inflation Index Declined in DecemberNEW YORK - Columbia University's Center for Inte

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

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

Mon., Jan. 11, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

The Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Monday to bank subsidiaries offering both investment advice and

The Argentine government postponed its first call for bids on a long-awaited debt capitalization pla

Angry over U.S. demands that Japan open its farm products market wider, a major Japanese agriculture

U.S. automakers failed to take advantage of the high Japanese yen, instead raising their prices alon

Energy development, shipbuilding and metallurgy are the key industrial sectors in which the governme

More than 75 percent of human resource executives at 269 industrial and service companies believe em

Risk retention groups, liability self-insurance pools, are increasing at a fast pace and are encompa

President Reagan said Monday that the nation's huge trade deficit, blamed in part for the turbulence

The Chinese textile industry must attract further investment to spur development or "lose the race"

China is actively eyeing the U.S. market for sales of personal computers despite a lack of sophistic

In launching their bold diversification efforts, the planners at Japan's ailing steelmakers have let

U.S. plastics manufacturers asked the Commerce Department to investigate and recommend action agains

President Reagan is expected to try to keep pressure on Japan to promote its domestic economy and li

AVIATION The Soviet airline Aeroflot is under fire from the press, but unlikely to reform.

Mazda Unit Taps KondoFor US PostJACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Ichisuke Kondo was named vice p

Foreign Minister Sosuke Uno headed for the United States Monday for talks with his U.S. counterpart.

West Germany's unemployment rate rose to 9.2 percent during December from 8.5 percent in the previou

The nation's immigration reform may result in worker shortages for some manufacturers who have been

General Mills Retail OfficerResignsThe head of General Mills' specialty retailing op

Researchers who inserted a human red blood cell gene into mice reported last week that it "turned on

Environmental inspectors are missing more than half the serious violations at facilities handling an

Producers of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons could make billion-dollar windfalls unless the fede

EPA to Delay Curbs On Use of PesticidesThe Environmental Protection Agency said it was postp

A new biological method that can detect tiny amounts of the AIDS virus may be a powerful tool for te

The Swedish skipper of the storm-damaged, Maltese-registered freighter Belle and his crew of seven w

The Soviet Union has tested on the Black Sea a powerful new 244-passenger hydrofoil it says will att

The Tennessee Valley Authority continued to turn to the spot market to supply coal for two of its ge

Both sides in a west coast labor dispute that is crippling Canada's grain exports have been summoned

China, the world's largest coal producer, is set to make deep inroads into the lucrative Europe mark