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ENTERTAINMENT SPENDING SETS RECORD IN JAPANJapanese companies spent a record $33.8 billion l

Political violence in Colombia reached such proportions that 1988 was dubbed the Year of the Massacr

FOXBORO, TOKYO FIRM SET FOR JOINT VENTUREFOXBORO, Mass. - The Foxboro Co. reached an agreeme

September softwood lumber exports from the four Pacific Coast states were down 7.4 percent from Augu

Two of British Columbia's major metallurgical coal export mines have settled their annual contracts

The state of Massachusetts is in for a tight electric future unless conservation and new generating

Private attorneys differ on whether the failure of either the U.S. government or Pan Am Airlines to

Currency traders expect the dollar to remain relatively stable over the next few weeks. Howe

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index remained steady last week in front of the Christmas h

SOUTHERN NATURAL GAS CO. (Birmingham, Ala.) - William E. Matthews IV was named chairman and William

IMPROPER LOADING BLAMED FOR '87 CRASHWASHINGTON - Improper loading of cargo, which changed t

U.S. engineering consultant Wilbur Smith & Associates is paving the way for a World Bank-funded high

For the week ended Dec. 10 total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 11

Dec. 23, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Seat belt laws sharply reduce serious injuries and deaths, while crash victims who don't wear belts

The opportunity for jobs, growth, economic development and new business arrived recently in northwe

The state's assigned risk auto insurance program was once the last resort of the guy with more dents

DAVID BRODER, THE SYNDICATED WASHINGTON COLUMNIST, stirred up the animals a week or two ago with a s

Friday, Dec. 23, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

France is drafting a new export-promotion program to help trim its heavy foreign trade deficit.<

* JofC Industrial Price Index: Hides 4A * Albert L. Kraus - Markets and Money 5A* Henry Nau

BOX INSPECTORS GROUP LISTS CANDIDATES DATABEDFORD, N.Y. - More than half the people who took

A U.S. study of the U.S.-Canadian vessel pilotage system for the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River

The former head of a Camden, N.J., dredging company has been indicted on charges of lying to a feder

DEL MONTE TO OPERATE OUT OF PORT MANATEEBRADENTON, Fla. - Del Monte Tropical Fruit Co. has s

The future of Namibia's largest port was left open in the independence agreement just signed at the

The crude oil market's newly found strength continued Friday in abbreviated trading on the New York

Anhydrous borax producers will raise prices in January to a level of $645 to $652 a ton a ton from c

Plans to expand and modernize the Thai merchant fleet have taken a small step forward but could wind

INDIAN GURU Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh finally severed his last tie to the United States when Connecticu

EMPLOYER HEALTH GROUP TO CEASE WRITING COVERTALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The Florida Customs Brokers

A story headlined Alex. Brown Endorses Bulk Shipping Stocks in The Journal of Commerce of Dec. 22 on

The Denver investment firm that bought U.S. Truck Lines Inc. earlier this year has purchased ailing

Dec. 23, 1988 Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange*PrevClose High

With business booming, intermodal truckers here have formed a new association to further improve the

A U.S. Department of Agriculture survey of Far Eastern ports found congestion, delays, antiquated fa

Clearing the backlog of ships created by a 10-day dock strike began in earnest on Dec. 19, following

U.S. customs brokers and lawyers aren't having a very merry Christmas as the international trade wor

The U.S. Coast Guard's recent deliberate sinking of a capsized ship near Puerto Rico marked the firs

The U.S. and Canadian Seaway agencies are jointly staging a trade mission to Europe and Africa in Ma