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An overwhelming mass of outdated regulations threatens to stall the automation of business communica

The board of British Rail is expected to announce today it is delaying for a year a decision on buil

CSX TRANSPORTATION INC. (Jacksonville, Fla.) - Edward H. Latchford has been named vice president-fin

For the week ended Oct. 28, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

Last-minute negotiations averted a shutdown of bankrupt Chicago, Missouri and Western Railway Co. an

TRAVELERS POSTS RISE IN 3RD-QUARTER NETHARTFORD, Conn. - Travelers Corp. reported that net i

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' oil production rose to its highest level this yea

A Japanese oil analyst's contention that the world is heading for a third oil crisis is far too pess

Nov. 1, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

The Port of San Francisco reported in a special commission meeting that it suffered approximately $6

POWER SALES INCREASE AT BALTIMORE UTILITYBaltimore Gas and Electric Co. said that kilowatt-h

James B. Sherwood, president of Sea Containers Ltd., claimed Tuesday there was little chance of fail

A salvage company invited investors Tuesday to join a project to raise a shipload of scotch whisky t

A federal grand jury here is investigating the records of a ship that docked at the Port of Houston

Orange and Rockland Utilities Inc. said that retail electric sales declined 2.3 percent during the t

President Bush Wednesday announced a series of U.S. trade initiatives, including a commitment to hel

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

HOUSE APPROVES BILL ON TRANSPORT FUNDINGThe House has approved a $12 billion transportation

Over the past 10 years there have been numerous maritime arbitrations dealing with the interpretatio

It may be more than a week before the Yugoslavian cargo ship that ran aground in the Florida Keys is

The U.S. dollar was mixed Wednesday after a bearish report from purchasing managers and a mixed repo

President Carlos Salinas de Gortari told his nation Wednesday that an economic modernization plan, u

Sales of U.S. Savings Bonds were suspended indefinitely Wednesday because of failure to enact legisl

Imre Pozsgay, presidential candidate of Hungary's ruling communists, who now call themselves Sociali

The Senate task force on the European Community's planned integration Wednesday urged the EC to foll

VENEZUELA NOTES DROP IN FOREIGN RESERVESCARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela's net foreign reserve

PURCHASING MANAGERS: INDEX STILL BELOW 50 PERCENTThe purchasing managers' index rose to 47.6

THE INVITATION READ: "President and Mrs. Susumu Temporin, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd., Tokyo, request t

Nov. 1, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low Vol.

1647 (Nov. 1, 1989) Previous day - 1647 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

New York Stock Exchange Chairman John Phelan Wednesday told a House panel he would favor emergency s

Economic growth in the United States is "slow to moderate," with mixed manufacturing activity and mi

It's not often you can identify an innovation that is an unqualified success, one that everyone woul

A major earthquake registering 7.3 on the Richter scale struck late Wednesday - this time off the no

Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Massachusetts claims it is in "good financial shape," but a Massachusetts

The Bush administration Wednesday strongly opposed three House bills that would expand the federal g

PAN AM ACTS TO PROVE US KNEW OF ATTACKLawyers for Pan Am are taking legal action to prove th

As part of her effort to improve the atmosphere for trade negotiations, U.S. Trade Representative Ca

Sunday's New York City Marathon will be more than just a footrace among the 24,000 runners expected

The last of many hurdles in the way of a Taiwan-backed petrochemical project in the Philippines appe