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Daily transactions on Japan's first bond futures market, just a year old, averaged $28 billion in Se

LA Port Executive To Retire in JanuaryJack L. Wells, chief deputy director of the port of Lo

Felony Charged In Toxic Exposure CaseThe president, vice president and foreman of a Brooklyn

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives, by a vote of 174 to 24, passed legislation designed to pr

Congress Set to Move On Truck Pension BillLeaders of the House and Senate Labor Committees a

Changes in tax laws adopted by Congress are expected to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the

Consumption of lead in non-socialist countries in 1986 is expected to rise by 1 percent to 4.09 mill

The price of steam coal delivered to Europe has taken another hit. Elsam, theDanish electric

Reichhold Raises Price of EpoxiesThe Chemical Coatings Division of Reichhold Chemicals Inc.

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

The Panama Canal Commission said shipping conditions have improved in the waterway and officials hop

India says it will press South Asian leaders to broaden regional cooperation in trade, industry and

Japan's proposed tax cuts will give a big push to capital investments from the country's private sec

The government has decided to allow foreign banks to accept time deposits for more than six months a

The Superfund law signed by President Reagan is an artful compromise between the competing interests

It will be difficult to get agreement from Mexico's commercial creditors on a multibillion dollar lo

The U.S. Department of Commerce's preliminary ruling that Canada is subsidizing its lumber exports a

The International Trade Administration unit of the Commerce Department issued a preliminary ruling

Oil prices held their ground as ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries strug

Chevron Corp. and San Francisco State University announced the inauguration of the Chevron Encore Pr

State Attorney General Robert Abrams asked the Public Service Commission tocut rates for Bro

Liability insurance premiums have been one of the fastest growing costs for shipowners during the l

The Frankfurt-based communications company Telenorma, a subsidiary of the Bosch Group, won a contrac

Friday, October 17, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Connecticut is considering a court appeal of a state attorney general's

Nicaragua Trial Starts MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Eugene Hasenfus, the American captured when a re

BANKINGProspects for Argentina's banking reform bill seem to be looking up, although debate

Plans by a group of Japanese, U.S. and other foreign companies to establish an international telecom

Commercial Union Assurance Cos. of Boston faces a possible pay-out of more than $23 million for a pe

The Federal Aviation Administration has denied a newspaper report that planes flying over northern I

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

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. will call at Charleston on its new container service between the U.S. East

Texaco and Nippon Central U.S. Oil Co. Ltd. successfully tested oil and natural gas from two zones i

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

Security was tightened at offshore oil drilling platforms after a reported sabotage threat by Sikh t

A new statute requiring insurers to justify rate hikes of 25 percent or more on commercial liability

W.R. Grace & Co. announced that it will construct a market development pilot plant at its research h

The Center for Asian Pacific Affairs plans to expand its activities in the Pacific Basin. Th

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew asked Japan for affirmative action" to increase opportunities

Chu Okongwu, Nigerian finance minister, announced Wednesday that Nigeria had made an agreement to re