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Rohr, Machinists Near Tentative AccordSAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - Aerospace machinists and Rohr

China's Grain Exports Expected to DeclineChina's grain exports will drop to 5.5 million metr

The head of the Bonneville Power Administration says the agency will not meet its mid-March deadline

Builders Transport Posts Drop in NetCAMDEN, S.C. - Builders Transport Inc. reported fourth q

The U.S. dollar drifted in a slow, sideways-to-lower pattern Wednesday as the foreign exchange marke

February 25, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gall

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries offensive to boost its share of the oil market has

Finnish oil group Neste has begun negotiations with the Soviet oil agency Sojuznefteexport, involvin

The opposition Labor Party said that if it wins the next general election it will refuse to let the

The lawyer for a computer chip importer hailed a federal ap peals court ruling upholding the company

The Los Angeles and Washington metropolitan areas will lead the nation in job growth, adding more th

The RAND Corp.'s Institute for Civil Justice has released the latest in a continuing series of studi

An Evergreen Marine Corp. containership hit and effectively destroyed a $1.3- million container cran

The first of several shipments of a new truck line to be distributed in North America by PACCAR Inc.

The U.S. government is trying to improve its special trade scheme for the Caribbean, which has been

The European Community commission has prepared a legal opinion accusing West Germany of violating th

The Commodity Credit Corp. has put into effect new rules for determining how U.S.-flag vessels quali

MERGER TALKS between the National Maritime Union and the Seafarers International Union have been put

China intends to boost exports of processed chemicals this year in hopes of reducing a yawning $270

GENERAL NEWSEconomic activity is refocusing to the suburbs as businesses relocate away

A purchasing team from Seoul says it has bought enough U.S. wheat, corn and soybeans to supply South

Wednesday, Feb. 25, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The parent company of Petro-Lewis is selling off another $188.2 million worth of the Denver-based co

Jacques Friedmann, one-time chairman of Compagnie General Maritime, France's state-owned shipping li

Government and school officials from towns around Chicago's O'Hare Airport gave members of Congress

The Swiss company Viso claims to be the only producer of medical stockings containing 71 percent, 75

Economic activity is refocusing to the suburbs as businesses relocate awayfrom many city cen

Catastrophic Premiums To Increase, CBO SaysThe House Ways and Means Committee released a Con

A panel of medical experts rejected mandatory AIDS testing for marriage license applicants and hospi

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

Besides a good-sized payoff for Rainier Bancorporation shareholders, the company's merger with Secur

China's Grain Exports Expected to DeclineChina's grain exports will drop to 5.5 million metr

Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III said the United States reached a tentative understanding with

3rd Wire-Tokyo Expo Set for April 1-4Held for the third time in succession, Wire-Tokyo '87 w

Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., called major pending trade legislation protectionist poison and urged trade

Cargoes of animal fodder, hazelnuts and herbs from Turkey have been rejected at ports in Egypt and t

Nearly one out of five seagoing jobs in the U.S. merchant marine are on ships op erated by or charte

Longshore gangs working container-carrying feeder barges between New York and Boston have been reduc

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

The Soviet Union is buying U.S. grain after a nine-month layoff, but Agriculture Department official