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The U.S. dollar rose to a high for the week Friday in quiet trading. Analysts said the dolla

Banks Allow Bolivia To Repurchase DebtBank of America announced Friday that commercial bank

Five Venezuelan public companies plan to pay $1.3 billion of refinanced debt ahead of schedule, the

Bankers and traders are still uncertain what the real impact will be when the government eases forei

Having decided against fighting extradition, the former managing director of failed Ka Wah Bank appe

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange failed to investigate fully possible trading practice violations ind

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

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

The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials inched ahead to a 4.78-point gain Friday, closing at 2455.99

Rohm & Haas Co. announced it will sell its Kydex acrylic polyvinyl chloride sheet assets to Kleerdex

Fri., July 10, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Dow Chemical Co. plans to add 320 million pounds of capacity for Dowlex linear low density polyethyl

Corrosion inhibitor chemicals demand in 17 major U.S. chemical market segments is expected to rise t

The deepwater port of Sept-Iles, 550 miles from Montreal on the north shore of the St. Lawrence Rive

Airlines would face some of the toughest consumer rules yet under a bill being prepared by three sen

Airgas Inc. announced the conclusion of a previously announced agreement with Elkem Metals Co. to fo

The government reversed an eight-month-old order barring Egyptian sailorsfrom going ashore i

The chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee has consider able support lined up

The international environmental organization Greenpeace has launched a campaign to oppose nuclear na

"Exocet Alley" is what Persian Gulf sailors talk most about these days at the bar, billiard tables a

Jane's Defense Weekly says Iran has built up its navy to unprecedented strength in response to U.S.

Purolator Courier Corp. has begun hitting the road to sell its two-day or less regional ground deliv

The Faeroe Islands on Friday called on Denmark to order a U.S. frigate out of the islands' waters af

South Korea may have discovered how to skirt a brick wall it claims the United States has thrown up

The Army Corps of Engineers has misused its emergency aircraft to fly officials at high cost to meet

United Airlines and three major European airlines said Friday they will invest $120 million to creat

'86 Mozambique Crash Blamed on Pilot, CrewThe October 1986 crash of the Soviet-built Tupolev

Sea-Land Service is switching its intermodal double-stack rail service in Southern California from t

Sale of La. Railroads Awaits ICC RulingHODGE, La. - An official from the North Louisiana & G

The Interstate Commerce Commission granted rate relief to a railroad shipper using the agency's new

THOUGHTS WHILE TARMACCED; waiting for the plane to move. A new word has entered the lexicon,

River Barge Death Toll May Never be KnownMWENSE, Zambia -- Officials searching for bodies ne

Suspended 30 feet in the air in a metal and wood basket above a Navy ship, Ford Pulley said he felt

The International Longshoremen's Association, bidding farewell to long-time boss Thomas Teddy" Gleas

Two major shipper groups urged the Federal Maritime Commission to hold firm in its fight against Per

The Federal Maritime Commission has decided to proceed with a rule requiring that all carriers maint

Empresa Maritime del Estado, the Chilean state-owned carrier, has resumed its in dependent liner ser

The Department of Transportation reversed past policy and said it will consider the need for on-boar

Stoked by record truck numbers, Chrysler Motors' combined truck and car sales in the United States f

Raymond A. Stewart resigned as president of Yellow Freight System Inc., the nation's largest general