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Finnair, the flag carrier of Finland, is now carrying cargo between Miami and Helsinki on a weekly p

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

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

The booming Tokyo Stock Exchange is expected to follow 1988's record performance with yet another st

Investigators have discovered a three-inch crack in the fuselage of an agingEastern Airlines 727 jet

S. KOREA TO TIGHTEN MONEY POLICY IN 1989SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean officials said Wed

In an apparent move to deflect potential objections to its planned merger with The Flying Tiger Line

The fee that the U.S. Postal Service pays for carrying a 100-pound sack of mail 1,000 miles is $29.

FIDELITY BANK (Philadelphia) - Joseph P. Leska was named senior vice president. He is head of the co

HUGHES AIRCRAFT TO BUY HONEYWELL DIVISIONLOS ANGELES - Hughes Aircraft Co., a unit of GM Hug

Wed., Dec. 28, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Prices for developing country debt in the secondary market have slipped to the lows of a month ago,

MIDDLE SOUTH UTILITIES INC. (New Orleans) - Jerry L. Maulden, James M. Cain a nd Donald Meiners were

Soviet authorities established a special information center on Wednesday to counter deepening public

When one-third of the roof peeled off an Aloha Airlines jet flying at 24,000 feet eight months ago,

Everyone knows that a bag of trash tossed out a car window is litter. But what about a block of coal

Air Products & Chemicals Inc. will test a new pollution-control technology at an Indiana power plant

Airlines will soon be asked to replace rivets in more than 800 Boeing 727s that were made with what

Dec. 28, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

The New York State Public Service Commission Wednesday deferred for four weeks a decision on a tempo

Cigarette companies are turning to electronic communications to make sure their profits don't go up

The Interior Department is moving to clear up claims to development rights on federal parklands and

Communications giant American Telephone & Telegraph Co., broken up by the government five years ago

NYMEX SEES REVERSAL IN CRUDE OIL FUTURESNew York Mercantile Exchange February crude oil futu

Brazil's January to November 1988 gross oil import bill totaled $3.3 billion, down from over $3.8 bi

Preparation is everything. Putting electronic data interchange to work is like making a movi

Computers, even the least expensive ones, are usually associated with the kind of affluence many peo

Chevron U.S.A. Inc. Tuesday announced an increase of 50 cents a barrel in the posted price it will p

Virginia port officials view their new inland terminal here as a key selling point in getting domest

A drawbridge over the Delaware River that was damaged by a collision with a floating crane Dec. 15 h

China's shipbuilding industry, already about the fifth largest in the world, is expecting orders nex

IVARAN AGENCIES INC. (New York) - Ralph Henninger was named vice president, containers, for the U.S.

Agricultural biotechnology companies, with goals ranging from keeping tomatoes firm to creating micr

The Canadian mining industry is looking to another gleaming year, although gold prices remain soft a

Oilseed traders here this week said they underestimated by 250,000 metric tons the amount of 1987-88

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Year12/28 12/27 Chan

FAVORABLE WEATHER AIDS THAILAND'S CROPSBANGKOK, Thailand - Thailand's major crop production

Pressure is growing in the Soviet Union for space to house foreigners, as business travelers and tou

President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday ordered an official probe into reports that top politicians, bu

JAFTEK BUYS 50 PERCENT SHARE OF BURNS MARKETINGCALGARY, Alberta - Jaftek Ventures Inc. annou