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Crude oil prices climbed all last week on the Northwest European spot market. Traders said t

Fierce price competition will hurt Burlington Air Express' third quarter results, according to Paul

Britain's service industries contributed a record 6.1 billion to the country's gross overseas earni

Richard Thalheimer says he's never outgrown the desire to have more toys. Neither have his c

Arthur Dunkel, director-general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, says he's 99.99 perce

Jamaica's garment exports to the United States surged in value and volume in the first half of 1986,

Several months ago, the U.S. and Japanese goverments struck a deal on trade in semiconductors.

The Chirac government's plans to allow French shipowners to register vessels in the Kerguelen Island

US Likely to Oppose Chile World Bank LoanPresident Reagan's top Latin American affairs offic

Trading began actively on the tanker market Friday with several new orders quoted, although the pace

Container traffic is spearheading the growth of commercial activities between the port of Marseilles

Singapore Traders Look More to USSingapore traders are turning away from imports of European

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

Pact on Brazilian Debt Is Approved by BanksAn agreement to refinance $31 billion of Brazil's

The fiscal and monetary balance that helped produce the big expansion of the past four years conceiv

South African coal producers warned here that the imposition of trade sanctions against South Africa

The Soviet Union's interest in developing an arctic sea route to link Vancouver with northern Europe

Aquino Plans US Visit MANILA, Philippines - Corazon Aquino, president of the Philippines, wi

Foreign investors may soon realize the potential of a huge, growing domestic market in India, its mi

There is little chance that debtor nations will adopt a suggestion by the Philip pines to pay their

China expects its trade with the world to increase 40 percent in the next five years, hitting an ann

Another showdown may be on the immediate horizon here, putting the Port of Houston Authority between

The replica of a merchant ship that plied the Aegean 2,300 years ago was to set sail Saturday on a v

An Agriculture Department study concludes that spending money to prevent soil erosion on cropland do

Vulsay Industries Inc., a 50/50 joint venture between Vulcan Packaging Inc. of Toronto and S.A.Y. In

A chemical analytical company began field experiments of a proprietary process that may enable utili

The following are the results of Friday's St. Louis Merchants Exchange call session for barge freigh

The general air of optimism permeating the credit markets in recent weeks, which caused visions of l

Congress Returns WASHINGTON - Congress comes back today for a session legislators hope can b

Pink clapping rabbits and squawking robots joined the clamor at the Tokyo Toy Fair last week, but th

Rainbow Navigation Inc. accused the Department of Defense of a grossly unlawful effort to open U.S.-

American President Lines plans to build several new ships too large to fit through the Panama Canal,

Australia has been relatively free of major waterfront strikes this year, but it still is likely to

The U.S. rice industry, seeking access to Japan's rice market for the second time in six years, will

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange will face regulatory and market hurdles in its attempt to launch a N

A Kansas utility and a North Dakota utility will swap up to 200,000 tons of coal this year to better

Celanese Textile Fibers announced a price increase of 5 percent to 10 percent a pound on acetate fil

Oil prices look set to head higher in the coming weeks, given OPEC's apparent commitment to cut prod

Champlin Petroleum Raises WTI PostingsFORT WORTH, Texas - Champlin Petroleum Co., a unit of

The failure of Frontier Airlines, looming losses at its parent, People Express, and severe cutbacks