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For six months, New York's tugboat workers have been on strike, boycotting the passenger liners and

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Amtrak service was back to normal Monday after service between New York and Washington was blocked f

August 22, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon

The Interstate Commerce Commission has refused to stay its decision to allow Amtrak to condemn a 50-

The bus that stops in Rushville five days a week is a lifeline for 72-year- old Evelyn Trenkle.<

Mon., Aug. 20, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of AgricultureForeign Agricultural Service

The number of working oil and natural gas rigs in the United States slipped by three to total 937, m

2 SOVIET RAIL WORKERS BLAMED FOR FATAL CRASHTwo railway workers have been charged with crimi

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Year8/22 8/19 Chan

Now that the loss of heating oil's market to natural gas has nearly evaporated this year, the time h

A federal jury's order that the Hunt brothers pay more than $130 million to a Peruvian company for t

Soybean meal futures had been up and then down on the vagaries of central U.S. weather this summer,

A Federal Highway Administration official said the agency's policy of relaxing overweight truck regu

Greyhound Lines Inc., the nation's last national bus network, is in a rebuilding phase and expects s

AUSTRALIA TO ISSUE PLATINUM KOALA COINNEW YORK - GoldCorp Australia Monday announced its fir

Marks & Spencer, the U.K. chain store group, has run into a little local difficulty as it bids to br

U.S. farm policy has become very similar to European Community policy in the way it disrupts interna

AMERICAN TRADING TRANSPORTATION CO. (New York) - Michael J. Murphy was named vice president, operati

The appeals board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has ordered the union not to affiliate

A Montreal-bound Cast container/bulk carrier at the center of a bomb scare was being inspected Monda

Electric Boat shipyard is trying to get some of its 10,000 striking workers to cross picket lines.

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

Japanese government bonds used to be called gristly meat bonds by the domestic banks who were forced

Country debt swaps moved lower in sluggish trading last week as both foreign and domestic medium-siz

The U.S. dollar moved broadly higher Monday, but its advance was capped at 1.92 deutsche marks by a

To hear George Bush tell it, the patient never has been better. Eight years ago, he exulted

BANK OF NEW YORK CO. (New York) - Frank L. Peterson Jr. and Frank Scarangella were named senior vice

A Dutch merchant bank, Pierson, Heldring & Pierson NV, has reached an agreement to buy Chemical Bank

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

GUYANA SEEKING LOAN FROM THE IMFGEORGETOWN, Guyana - President Desmond Hoyte of Guyana will

The principal shipping conference between North America and Asia announced it will reinstate termina

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of Commerce , U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, Room HCHB

A long-expected upturn in the spot market at last may be occurring. Prices for ocean freight

The Navy's Military Sealift Command announced it accepted a new bid for U.S.-flag rates to haul cont

As the International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots begins its nominating convention this

The University of Akron broke ground for its $17 million polymer science building. The 12-st

VINYL ACETATE UP AT NATIONAL STARCHBRIDGEWATER, N.J. National Starch & Chemical Corp.'s Res

Provesta Corp. and Dow Corning Enterprises Inc. formed a joint venture, AgriSense, to develop and ma