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Olympic Airways has signed an agreement worth $3.5 million to overhaul two aging 747 jumbo jets rece

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

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

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

CMS ENHANCEMENTS INC. (Tustin, Cal.) - Tom Ong and Mason Tarkeshian, two of the company's four found

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

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

Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd. said it will quit both major shipping conferences between the Un

Overall gains in capital spending by U.S. firms should slow in 1989, but the transportation industry

A leading environmental group wants to stop a government agency plan to ship radioactive waste throu

British insurers will likely end up paying Pan American World Airways $32 million for the hull of a

Sunshine Mining Co. says it will pay $865.2 million for plastics and petrochemical maker Rexene Corp

Taiwan's fitful stock market is expected to cool gradually in early 1989 as the local economy slows

McDonnell Douglas Corp. in January will begin flight tests with a second ultra high bypass engine.

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

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

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

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

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

AT&T, US SPRINT WIN HUGE FEDERAL CONTRACTAmerican Telephone & Telegraph Co. and US Sprint Co

Atlantic States Association of Rail Shippers, annual meeting, Jan. 11. Philadelphia Hershey Hotel, P

AMERICAN RE-INSURANCE CO. (Princeton, N.J.) - Edward F. Schwenzfeier was named vice president, facul

A full-blown trans-Atlantic trade war in the New Year seemed inevitable Wednesday after the United S

Hoechst Celanese Corp. said Wednesday it counter sued General Electric Co. in a continuing battle ov

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

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

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

OMAN AND IRAN SIGN TRADE AGREEMENTNICOSIA, Cyprus - Oman signed a trade accord with Iran and

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

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

After years of cursing the location of their city, Buffalo residents today wouldn't trade their mitt

Moslem Morocco and Catholic Spain are to build a bridge to link Europe and Africa across the Straits

It's a bit of magic, a fantasy-like world inhabited by a perfect flower or swirling clouds or tiny s

Seven ocean freight consolidators objected to a Federal Maritime Commission law judge's ruling excus

CARRIER GROUP TO HIKE COSTA RICAN RATESHOLLYWOOD, Fla. - A group of three shipping lines tha

Managers and workers at Belfast's Harland & Wolff shipyard have made a formal joint bid for control

Shell U.K. Exploration & Production (Shell Expro) said Wednesday it has consulted its insurers over

An American Bar Association commission's call for subjecting the insurance industry to federal antit

Chicago Board of Trade, economic outlook briefing, Dec. 29, 3:30 p.m. Speakers: Martha R. Seger, gov