Latest news

Two decades after a feisty young company set out to make a place for itself in the long-distance tel

August 8, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

The state-run Soviet insurance company, Ingosstrakh, is actively preparing to offer insurance for al

A 14 percent tax credit to small firms that establish pension plans could increase the number of wor

Ever since it was founded in Shanghai in 1919, American International Group has concentrated heavily

Mon., Aug. 8, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

The world's top athletes aren't the only ones holding their breath over next month's Olympics in Seo

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

Ship traffic and cargo tonnage moving through Montreal and into Lake Ontario since the shipping seas

The New York State legislature on Monday approved putting a $3 billion road and bridge rebuilding bo

Textile Quotas to Watch as of 8/6/88* Fully Utilized Textile Quotas as of 8/6/88* Reflects c

GASOLINE PRICES CLIMB BY 40 PERCENT IN YUGOSLAVIABELGRADE, Yugoslavia - Gasoline prices went

Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services has converted options on six Rolls-Royce powered Boeing 757 airpl

Orient Overseas Container Line is replacing British officers and crew with Taiwanese on two of its t

Massachusetts auto insurers were expected to submit an automobile rate hike request in the low doubl

NCNB CORP. (Charlotte, N.C.) - James H. Hance Jr. was named chief financial officer. He repl

The key player in a series of proposed merger and subsidy deals involving five U.S.-flag shipping co

The shirts, neckties and scarves go fast and cheap on the sidewalks of New York's Wall Street.

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

More coal was loaded at Alabama State Docks' McDuffie Coal Terminal in July than any month since the

JOHNSON RESIGNS POST AT VA. PORT OPERATORJohnnie J. Johnson has resigned as general manager

Total cargo volume at the Port of Richmond, Va., for the fiscal year that ended June 30 shot up 40 p

A second company authorized to solicit international bids for municipal capital construction project

The Finns have cracked the new mega-dollar hotel market in the Soviet Union. Leading Finnish

Scripto Tokai, the U.S. subsidiary of Yokohama, Japan-based Tokai Corp., the world's largest disposa

Oil prices are about $4 a barrel below where they were this time last year, butgasoline pumps are st

EDI industry - get ready for the mouthpiece that roared. The EDI Association is planning to

Mild winter weather was responsible for a substantial drop in the volume of crude oil and petroleum

Britain raised its interest rates Monday for the seventh time since June in renewed efforts to thro

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

S. KOREAN BEEF TENDER REMAINS IN DOUBTSYDNEY, Australia - The Australian beef industry still

GULF WAR CEASE-FIRE SET TO BEGIN ON AUG. 19A cease-fire in the eight-year-old Persian Gulf w

TOP STORIES: Farmers in the Midwest prepare for the worst grain harvest in years, as the dro

U.S. commodity chemicals imports rose by volume to 3.4 million metric tons in May from 2.5 million m

Kenan Transport Co.'s second quarter earnings fell to $623,000, or 27 cents a share, from 712,000, o

Ozone levels are worse this year in 28 Eastern U.S. cities and counties than in 1987 and many had mo

The U.S. Customs Service has confiscated some $700,000 worth of imported clothing under a new safety

U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter urged state governors meeting here Monday to get involved

Toyota Motor Corp.'s new factory at Georgetown, Ky., will use natural gas produced in Kentucky for f

AIR CONTROLLER STAFFING IS AT PRE-STRIKE LEVELStaffing levels for the Federal Aviation Admin