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The Soviet Union is buying more grain from the United States and will buy even more as long as U.S.

Western Canada's largest shipyard has been cut off from a once-promising business refitting auxilia

Freighter Carrying Dynamite AbandonedCHERBOURG, France - A Danish freighter carrying 400 ton

The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee called U.S. trade policy unharmonious and called

A Rhode Island business group sees only further deterioration in the state's workers compensation pr

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

Tokyo natural rubber stocks at warehouses designated by Tokyo Commodities Exchange for industry tota

Talks by the International Coffee Organization ended Monday night with no agreement on reintroducing

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' resolve to maintain oil prices at $18 a barrel de

A survey by the Japanese Embassy in Washington showed 82 percent of U.S. legislators favoring a trad

Japan's jobless rate hit a record 3 percent in January, the highest level in 34 years, a Labor Minis

Ferro Corp. announced two new business ventures to expand its composites operations. Ferro s

Trying to chart the future of energy-poor Italy in light of the Chernobyl disaster, government offic

The National Transportation Safety Board urged the Defense Department to toughen qualification stand

Unilever PLC, the Anglo-Dutch conglomerate, announced fourth quarter 1986 pretax earnings of 276 mi

Ports are spending millions of dollars to design and install automated information systems and are g

Container traffic through Hong Kong jumped 21 percent last year, making officials pretty sure" it ra

Luncheon in honor of Clayton Yeutter, U.S. trade representative. Sponsored by the New York Chamber o

Fred. S. James Buys A&A's Boise OfficeFred. S. James & Co. said it acquired the Boise, Idaho

Tuesday, March 3, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The U.S. reiterated its proposal for a copper producer-consumer forum designed to develop markets fo

Egypt to Hold Prices Steady Until March 15CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt's crude oil export prices wil

NECO Sets Agreement For Power PurchasesNEWPORT, R.I. - Newport Electric Co. finalized an agr

Drivers Group Seeks Review on ICC RulingThe Owner Operators Independent Drivers Association

The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. said that it is closing tire plants in Des Moines, Iowa, Bloomington

Prospects that the marine shipping industry will see an end to the protracted crisis on the world's

Electric Boat will combine its second and third work shifts on March 29 and restructure its first sh

Arco asked the U.S. Court of Appeals to reconsider a January decision casting a pall over the Depart

A federal bankruptcy court approved the sale of four smaller United States Lines vessels to the Mari

The new rail ferry link between Gothenburg, Sweden, and Frederikshavn, Denmark, will start operating

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

Breaux May Get Post WASHINGTON - Sen. John Breaux, D-La., appears to be headed for the chair

Crude oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange strengthened substantially in heavy trading Tue

GENERAL NEWS The government's index of economic indicators points away from future growth, f

The government has decided to allow hotels, cultural departments and halls to hold public dances for

The state Public Service Commission has delayed until April 7 a hearing on whether to cancel the ope

Ecolab Inc., formerly Economics Laboratory, has moved into the institutional laundry supply business

Burlington Northern Railroad is considering selling up to 2,000 miles of lines this year as part of

A Taiwanese delegation left for Washington Tuesday to try to negotiate an increase in this island's

A strike at the four-month-old Ford Motor Co. plant here was in its third day Tuesday, but a company