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The Japanese trade surplus with China for last year is estimated at US$4 billion, down from the US$5

Maryland will receive $80.9 million for various water projects during the 1988 fiscal year, accordin

GENERAL NEWS Favorable economic data don't appease economists. Page 3AFINANCIALThe

NEC Corp., a major Japanese electronics manufacturer, plans to commission South Korean and Taiwanese

Sex Discrimination Suit Settled Out of CourtAn out of court settlement was announced in a cl

Brazil is planning to reduce its coal purchases from traditional sources, which include the United S

Heavy central bank intervention enabled the U.S. dollar to maintain a steady tone Friday as the mark

The weekly general freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percen

U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter warned the U.S. may take strong action against Japan for i

U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng, in a general overview of the administration's

Apple Computer Inc. has no plans to gobble up other companies with the $600 million swelling its cof

Boldly, desperately, Consolidation Coal Co. is checking into the feasibility of offering coal to the

Top Stories A great deal of work remains to be done in Tort Reform before the insurance indu

Good economic reports from the fourth quarter again failed to convince analysts that the U.S. econom

The Export-Import Bank announced its first export credit insurance policy to help a U.S. trade assoc

Japan's electronics industry showed little surprise at Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.'s recent r

Australian Insurer To Sever S. African TiesJOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Colonial Mutual Life

An Indonesian Cabinet Minister says he expects oil prices to go above $18 a barrel soon if producers

Western Canadian coal exporters are gearing up for further price and volume cuts when contracts with

Small property owners in the nation's inner cities are falling back on emergency insurance plans in

Miffed by a drop in their export quota to the United States, Australian sugar producers are agitatin

Mexico's annual inflation rate broke the triple-digit barrier for the first time in 1986, the centra

Horace Alston and Richard Hughes have been ousted as leaders of the Internation al Longshoremen's As

One aspect of the farm industry that's likely to see continued change is the banking industry.

Australian trade officials are confident that agricultural commodities eventually will come under th

ADMINISTRATION BUDGETS are automatically considered dead on arrival these days. Such judgments are t

The U.S. semiconductor industry has been devastated by Japanese competition and may need government

An attorney for a firm that has sued Ivan F. Boesky says he has been told the former stock speculato

Thursday, January 8, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Physicians can use blood tests to identify people infected with the AIDS virus who are likely to com

JIM, THE NEGRO SLAVE, told Huckleberry Finn that King Solomon wasn't all that wise a judge.

GENERAL NEWS Merrill Lynch economists warned that improvement in the U.S. trade deficit is a

The port of Gulfport, faced with an overwhelming bond debt that has sucked up any budget reserves, w

If U.S. trade deficit numbers don't improve in 1987, you can kiss the economy goodbye, according to

Ocean carriers criticized the Shipping Act of 1984 at a seminar here Thursday, but their comments ap

United States Lines Inc. may move its terminal operations from Howland Hook on Staten Island to Port

Australian trade officials are closely watching moves by Peking to putpressure on Japan to i

Supplies of distillate fuel oil increased marginally, while gasoline inventories rose substantially,

Algeria's new hydrocarbon law, introduced last summer and designed to provide more attractive condit

After more than five hours of negotiations Wednesday, striking crewmen aboard the merchant ship Pion