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The U.S. dollar edged cautiously upward in quiet trading Tuesday on news of a 0.5 percent gain in Ju

The net operating revenues for the nation's freight railroads fell 43.4 percent to $524 million in t

Coast Guard officials are investigating the collision early last Friday of a 641-foot Liberian-regis

Norway is close to announcing plans to slow oil output, but will go ahead with them only if oil mini

GENERAL NEWSTax reform probably will spur automotive, retailing and service industries but d

The issue of cargo preference for U.S.-flag ships hauling military shipments still divides the Navy

Manila Airport Secure WASHINGTON - Manila International Airport's security measures received

France's leading banks are making a big, albeit belated, push into the aircraft leasing business.

Singapore's International Monetary Exchange today begins the first trading in Japanese stock futures

Helen Brady said she would have been thrown through the windshield that prom night when a van hurtle

Representatives of seven Midwestern states gathered here recently to start playing an earnest game o

US-Japanese Frictions Expected to ContinueThe huge U.S. budget deficit and Japan's massive e

Jamaica deliberately has built up arrears in payments with the International Monetary Fund as part o

Mitchell Energy & Development Corp. reported second quarter earnings declined to $1.4 million, or 3

Ventrex Laboratories Inc. signed an agreement with Dade/Baxter Travenol Diagnostics to provide certa

Prices farmers get for raw products on the average held steady in August, despite record-high market

Congress began debating action on the state of siege declared last week while state mines remained s

Major changes are expected to be announced during the next few weeks in France's energy sector as th

Non-stop service between Vancouver and Taipei is being sought by Canadian Pacific Air Lines as part

Wardair First in Canada To Use Airbus PlanesVANCOUVER, British Columbia - Wardair Internatio

Mitsubishi Mining and Cement Co., once one of the largest Japanese domestic coal producers, plans to

Sun Carriers Co. is joining the elite of the nation's largest public trucking companies with an init

GENERAL NEWSTax reform probably will spur automotive, retailing and service industries but d

A long-awaited decision by the Nakasone administration on Japan's participation in the research phas

Two major Asian shipping companies received new financial life, but Chase Manhattan Bank reiterated

The Transpacific Westbound Rate Agreement put off until at least Oct. 1 its proposed special operati

WORLD BANK GAMBIA - $16.5 million from the International Development Association and the Wor

The Tennessee Valley Authority said it built a new low-sulfur coal stockpile at its Widows Creek pow

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

Friday, August 29, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanadaU.K.

Airlines Seek Nod To Cover Frontier RouteSeven air carriers have asked the Transportation De

President Quits to SeekA New HomeSteven Newman, president of Home Insurance Co. for

FINANCIALCredit market analysts look for another Fed discount rate cut, but some aren't conv

Robert DeBono, vice president, circulation, is leaving The Journal of Commerce to become vice presid

Sales of new single-family houses declined for a fourth straight month in July, hitting the lowest l

Farm income estimates issued by the Agriculture Department are once again under fire, this time from

Cast, BCL Schedule Westbound ServiceHAMILTON, Bermuda - Cast (1983) Ltd. and Bermuda Contain

WHAT PRICE IS RIGHT? A Congressional Budget Office study concluding that the government can receive

Gov. Mario Cuomo ordered the state Consumer Protection Board to sue the Public Service Commission if

Sun Carriers Files 10 Million-Share OfferSun Carriers Inc., the common carrier trucking comp