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Tue., Sept. 15, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

Australia Willing To Help Coal IndustrySYDNEY, Australia - The Australian government is inte

A federal judge has ruled New Jersey is in violation of the federal Clean Air Act by failing to impl

The Interstate Commerce Commission swiftly approved Union Pacific Corp.'s acquisition of Overnite Tr

A Federal Reserve Board decision has breathed new life into the so-called South Dakota loophole, inv

The Illinois Supreme Court, setting a sweeping standard, ruled Monday that insurance companies must

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

David Johnson Joins Gerber as ChairmanFREMONT, Mich. - David W. Johnson, who was president a

Norwegian oil and gas production increased during the first seven months of this year by 21.3 percen

Egypt to Reduce Oil Export PricesCAIRO, Egypt - Egypt said Tuesday it will reduce its oil ex

Gov. William Donald Schaefer of Maryland is scheduled to meet Thursday with steamship executives in

Brazilian Finance Minister Luiz Bresser Pereira is scheduled to meet with the Argentine and Mexican

Britain's largest miners union, the National Union of Mineworkers, appears ready to carry out plans

The U.S. market for benzene is expected to remain uneventfully flat for the next few quarters, resul

Massachusetts Shipbuilders Inc. is working with state officials on a financing plan aimed at allowin

The U.S. Department of Commerce denied a request to exempt Chinese petroleum- wax candles from an an

The approach of another "triple witching hour" Friday is causing little alarm in the stock market.

Alaska's Governor Seeks Pacts in ChinaAlaska Gov. Steve Cowper Tuesday began a visit to Chin

U.S. coal producers are expected to mine a record 897 million tons this year but the industry is fac

Volkswagen AG is negotiating the possible construction of an assembly plant in the Soviet Union.

Sporting Goods Group Schedules Fall ShowThe Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association is hold

The market for large volume petrochemicals in the United States remained strong in August, spurred m

Delegates from 43 nations have gathered this week to conclude the world's first treaty to control ch

Monsanto, Mycogen Form R&D AccordST. LOUIS - Monsanto Co. and Mycogen Corp. announced a mult

Four British minesweepers assembled in the Gulf of Oman Tuesday to join three French warships as min

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

Suit Seeks to Declare NJ Insurer InsolventTRENTON, N.J. - The state Department of Insurance

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has expanded to 91 square miles its quarantine area in Los Angele

A new study says a proposal to limit U.S. imports of cloth, clothes and shoes could cost U.S. consum

A British company, European Electronics Systems Ltd., has developed a system to detect and analyze b

Canada's west coast forest companies are happy that their country's free trade negotiators have been

He emphasizes that 80 percent of the eastbound North Atlantic cargo traffic carried by Swissair is f

South Jersey Gas Co. and its industrial customers are locked in combat over new federal regulations

The British government has again rejected a call from the transport industry to raise the truck weig

Computerization of the nation's shipping and distribution industry is coming slowly and with some di

Norwegian shipowner Knut Ulstein Kloster said that a contract for the Phoenix project could be signe

Business organizations and the government plan to spend US$1.43 billion in the next five years to en

Pennsylvania's Peach Bottom nuclear plant, the only U.S. plant ever closedbecause operators

Alcan Aluminum Ltd. has settled its differences in a longstanding dispute with the Canadian federal

Japan accounted for 31 percent of the U.S. trade deficit in July, with Taiwan following at 11 percen