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The Federal Maritime Commission's counsel said shipping agents failed to make a case against a Georg

CSX Corp. reported 1986 net earnings decreased to $418 million, or $2.73 a share, compared with $442

Increased interest from foreign investors has prompted the Kingston Free Zone to begin expanding it

Palau's President Lazarus Salii and his Cabinet are searching for means to assure the tiny western P

There is little confidence among European oil traders that the firm trend induced by the Organizatio

A new incentive program for rural electric cooperatives to pay off their low- interest government lo

To White House chief of staff Donald Regan, they are businessmen who owe their existence to tax shel

The Internal Revenue Service is proposing the use of credit cards to simplify the process of paying

A Reagan administration move to turn the Overseas Private Investment Corp., a federal agency, into a

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

A U.S.-Canadian agreement intended to settle a lumber trade dispute between the two countries has be

A Brooklyn, N.Y., company owned by a Nigerian tribal chief plans to build a $400 million automobile

Britain's economy will boom this year with higher growth and falling unemployment, predicted the Con

Universal Savings Sold To Australian FirmORANGE, Calif. - Unity Corp. Ltd. of Sydney said it

The U.S. dollar began 1987 foreign exchange trading Friday by sliding lower against major foreign cu

Palau's President Lazarus Salii and his Cabinet are searching for means to assure the tiny western P

JANUARY 6-7 - Insurance Crisis Conference - San Francisco - Laventhol & Horwath certified pu

US Farm Prices Fell 2.4 percent in DecemberThe index of prices received by U.S. farmers for

Union Texas Petroleum reported a crude oil discovery in the Badin area of Southeast Pakistan.

The Reagan administration will send its fiscal 1988 budget proposals to Congress today, even though

Amoco Passes Through Superfund Act CostsAmoco Oil Co. raised the price of all its refined pr

Alaska's economy may be in store for a better New Year, as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting C

GENERAL NEWS There will be no one home at Capitol Hill or White House when the fiscal 1988 b

The unusual acquisition of foreign shipbuilding rights and the swapping of chartered tonnage appears

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

Despite the stock market's fast start on 1987 trading, analysts appear to be unconvinced that the ma

Chinese graduate student Xu Shiku is an expert in debt financing. He wears a Western-style tweed jac

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

The European Community's environment commissioner, Stanley Clinton Davis, added his voice to those c

Exploration activity on the Norwegian continental shelf fell sharply in 1986. Thirty-seven explorato

A nuclear waste disposal technique that could save billions of dollars has been developed at Argonne

France's largest union called for the two-week national rail strike to spread to other state-owned i

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: 1987 marks the Interstate Commerce Commission's 100th birthday and - despite some in

Tourism earnings in Grenada are climbing as U.S. tourists pour into the eastern Caribbean island.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that Haztech Inc. of Atlanta was awarded a contra

San Joaquin Valley wine grape growers may benefit from a 200 percent levy on selected European Comm

Profits of U.S. automakers ran between $6.6 billion and $6.9 billion last year, down sharply from t

Friday, Jan. 2, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

United States Lines renewed the insurance on its fleet of 14 containerships. Hull and war-ri

Will cattle and hogs be subjected to CAT scanning to see if they're too fat for the consumer market?