Commentary

A major force behind our robust stock market and stepped-up economic growth is a rare combination of

Call the human resource manager of almost any U.S. company and ask if it has high-tech job openings

The financial contagion that swept through Asia eight months ago may be over. But the balance of ris

If you read English, then please pay your telephone bill. If you speak Spanish, pay up or else, says

Trade and economics officials from the world's 29 richest countries meet in Paris later this month t

A new era has dawned in the Americas. The aspirations that the nations of the hemisphere pursue coin

The proposed merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group is a giant, $166 billion in-your-face challenge

It has never been easier to gain access to government information. On the Internet, Americans now ca

Once subsidies are given they are almost impossible to take away, as the European Union is finding y

Last week's news that the distinguished automaker Rolls-Royce Motors will be acquired by BMW - or, h

The latest trade policy wars in Washington are being fought on terrain unfamiliar to most businesses

Angry striking towboat pilots pulled barges off to the sides of U.S. inland waterways Saturday like

International tests show American students testing near the bottom of the academic heap in math and

Computer czar Bill Gates and a handful of other billionaires like him are messing up America's econo

Slightly more than a month ago, Korea inaugurated its new president, Kim Dae-jung. While Korea's eco

The secret of ice's viselike grip on aircraft wings, automobile windshields and other surfaces final

It is the capital's most strategic thoroughfare: a natural point of convergence, a dividing line bet

The 21st century freight market will place new demands on trans-Pacific shipping lines and their cus

ABCS OF MARITIMEACADEMY CURRICULUMAn article in the March 12 edition of your newspaper (''Ac

The Clinton administration was stunned when Nelson Mandela, sub-Saharan Africa's foremost leader,

Consumers for the first time in three generations, may be facing lower prices for a range of goods a

The European Union is trying to stake out the moral high ground in global commerce by calling for a

Discussions between China and the European Union in the shadow of London's Asia-Europe summit last w

The Surface Transportation Board was created in 1995 largely because Congress believed competitive m

Blame the Asian crisis or foreigners misreading the landscape or even Japan's use of a loaded term.

How will Asia's financial crisis affect the world economy? The conventional wisdom is that nations o

Recommendations by an OECD study group this week for minimum corporate governance standards are welc

During a typically spirited flight on Southwest Airlines recently, I started to wonder about other n

In 1992, the U.S. Department of Commerce began collating and publicizing monthly trade deficit figur

Acting Russian Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko, 35, talks, thinks and dresses like the earnest engin

Loose gravel has soaked up the pool of blood where the police chief of this rural town was stoned to

FRANCE'S MATIF TO LAUNCHREVAMPED TRADING SYSTEMPARIS - France's Matif exchange will begin to

Scores of ongoing flood control, shore protection and harbor dredging projects in at least 29 states

Thirty years after taking to the barricades, the generation shaped by Berlin's student protests is p

During his first race for public office, Abraham Lincoln called for ''internal improvements,'' namel

Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and his deputy, Lawrence Summers, have been busy trying to drum up n

It was on an April Fools' Day, 1798, that the U.S. House of Representatives met officially for the f

Supporters of open trade face a daunting challenge these days. Declining public support for expanded

Despite President Clinton's attempts to downsize and streamline the federal government, the United S

As anticipated, the Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down the harbor maintenance tax - designed to fu