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The Department of Transportation dispatched aviation investigators to Belize City to probe charges t

A dramatic shift in the distribution of air freight traffic among the world's airlines is taking pla

On a dusty diamond south of Seattle, some rookie baseball players will try to make a few hits in a p

After 16 years of building television and radio towers in Cambridge, Minn., Tower Systems Inc. is mo

Vice President Dan Quayle, who arrived in Venezuela this week to begin a four-nation Latin American

A delegation from Soviet commodity trading agency Prodintorg is in Paris to finalize details of the

Aug. 6, 1991 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

Tue., Aug. 6, 1991 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Piles of emeralds, amethysts and garnets glitter under tiny white spotlights at a sedate auction roo

They're not exactly the likeliest of partners, but Lily Klebanoff Blake and Young Min Lee think they

Union Carbide Corp. is bringing research and development to plastics recycling - literally.

PRODUCTION BEGINS AT QATAR GAS FIELDMANAMA, Bahrain - Qatar's North Field - the world's bigg

The Radisson Diamond, billed as the world's largest twin-hull luxury cruise ship, will have its home

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) Aug. 6, 1991Bid AskedCopper-G

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago8/6 8/5 Change % Change: 7/12

NORTH AMERICABusiness World Expo. Aug. 10-11. Secaucus, N.J. Franchise and business opportun

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has dropped 3.4 million acres of private timberlands in three Nor

A hefty jump in grain shipments has paced a rebound this year for the Arkansas River barge industry,

Consolidated Rail Corp. is improving its coal handling facilities at the Ashtabula Coal Dock, Ashtab

To the naked eye, they look like bassinets, cradles, cribs and baby beds. But Roadway Expres

The U.S. dollar was broadly lower Tuesday on the market's expectation that U.S. interest rates will

New York Mercantile Exchange Aug. 5, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

A United Nations working group will meet next month to develop a proposal for drawing compensation m

Schwinn Bicycle Co., a name long identified with Chicago and bicycle manufacturing, said earlier thi

Colombia plans to ask Brazil and Guatemala to join in a common front to defend coffee prices, Luis F

The New Jersey Insurance Department and Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., of New York, are negotiati

PASSENGERS SUE AMTRAK IN SC DERAILMENTPassengers of the derailed Amtrak "Silver Star" filed

NOVA CORP. (Calgary, Alberta) - J.E. "Ted" Newall will become chairman and chief executive officer o

EXPORTERS CAN MINIMIZE TAXES by setting up a foreign sales corporation or a domestic international s

Transportation News Ticker The dry cargo and tanker fixtures listed herewith and compiled in

AT&T PRESIDENT SETS OVERSEAS GROWTH GOALSRobert Allen, president of American Telephone & Tel

Aug. 6, 1991 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid- Premiu

Trees growing in the mountains of Tasmania - some of them hundreds of years old - are providing some

Aug. 6, 1991 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 216.52 up 0.14 which compares wi

A recent ruling by the U.S. Court of International Trade could significantly benefit companies that

Courts in the United Arab Emirates have begun to authorize the release of cargoes detained in local

The Bush administration is considering an extension of controls on Japanese and Taiwanese machine to

Here's how the rumor went: Urine samples were taken from the horses that ran in this year's

Gasoline demand in the United States during the crucial pre-summer period was greater than reported,