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The new federal tax law will cost insurers $6 billion by 1990, said Daniel J. McNamara, outgoing pre

Comex Chief Recommends An Election NEW YORK - Alan J. Brody, chairman and president of the C

Norway has banned imports of agricultural products from West Germany following reports that hoof-and

The end of commercial use of the Morse Code in the 1990s was predicted by the manager of Britain's w

Traditional Exports Petroleum, tomatoes, agricultural products, meat, coffee, cotton, sugar,

''I'm Chiquita Banana and I've come to say . . . my high shipping costs I'm looking to defray."<

The battered hulks of several abandoned clipper ships lie half-submerged in the shallows along a des

American Telephone & Telegraph Co. announced Wednesday a pioneering deal to equip China's official n

Although ship traffic on the Delaware River edged up 1 percent in 1987, large docks in Philadelphia

U.S. businessmen may reap substantial benefits from new economic reforms and other developments in C

At least 8,000 small- and medium-sized industries in northern Nuevo Leon state will be forced to clo

January 13, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallo

High demand for natural gas in 1988 will keep spot market prices well above the record lows reached

Primary inventories of key petroleum products followed normal seasonal patterns with distillate oil

Alberto Ades, a Brazilian financier and trader, Wednesday proposed a new security designed to break

Consumer prices in Switzerland rose a monthly average of 1.4 percent in 1987, the government reporte

Cutbacks in credit and the money supply in China this year appear likely to affect foreign projects,

A prominent Southern pricing bureau approved a plan to raise trucking freight rates 4 percent in Apr

On a rainy day in Lake Charles you can spot big red circles on the floors of the port's 14 warehouse

Establishment of a second shipping registry in Denmark is essential not only to the future of Danish

Campbell to Acquire Specialty Brands UnitsCAMDEN, N.J. - Campbell Soup Co. said it has agree

The death of President Chiang Ching-kuo may slow the pace of reform on Taiwan but is not expected to

The U.S. pulp and paper industry is expected to benefit from an improving trade position and continu

Railroad freight traffic ended the year with a figurative flood of carloads as the resurgent manufac

Longshoremen in the Pacific Northwest scheduled a one-day work stoppage for today to protest proposa

State-owned Philippine National Oil Co. is embarking on a substantial upgrading of its tanker fleet,

Defense attorneys hammered away again Wednesday at a key government witness in a waterfront corrupti

Rep. Helen Delich Bentley, R-Md., promised to watch over enforcement of a tougher new law on U.S. ci

Gov. Booth Gardner wants to make Washington a center of international trade and finance. He

Brazil's international flagship airline Varig is denying recently published reports that it suffered

Wed., Jan. 13, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Recent demands by U.S. congressmen for changes in Canadian building code provisions to increase U.S.

Toyota Motor Corp. expects to produce a record number of automobiles in 1988, although exports will

IT'S UNLIKELY that any director at Port Everglades, Fla., has gotten along with his bosses on the po

Nissan, Jerr-Dan Ink Joint Marketing PactNissan Diesel America Inc. has entered into a joint

Jan. 13 Baltic International Freight Futures ExchangePrev.Close High Low

A highly successful local weapons manufacturer, who got his start because of the U.S. arms embargo a

The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to revise its rules governing farm workers' exposur

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

The worldwide glut in oil production is expected to disappear over the next five years under present