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Four of the nation's top economists surprised the House Banking Committee Thursday by agreeing on th

The Cameroon Development Corp. and Del Monte Tropical Fruit Co. signed an agreement to develop 3,000

Rorer Group Gets Back in the BlackFORT WASHINGTON, Pa. - Rorer Group Inc. announced that thi

Kaiser Steel Corp. said its board approved the sale of the New Mexico coal properties and reserves h

The railroad industry's unions, fresh from what may turn out to be a major victory in a federal appe

Laughter comes easily to Yann-Pierre Remond, so much so the commercial director of the Marseilles-Fo

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The Chicago Mercantile Exchange named a panel of experts to assist it in a thorough examination of e

A new chief executive will take control of the battered stock exchange, and 39 futures brokers are b

U.S. participation in the World Bank and similar international development banks is threatened by a

Mexico and the United States will conclude a long-awaited bilateral trade and investment pact here N

West German crude oil imports dropped 700,000 barrels in September, to 40.3 million barrels from 41

The Detroit Edison Co. said third quarter electricity sales rose 9.3 percentfrom the same pe

The next stage of Malaysia's privatization program may be complete next year, the governor of Bank N

When the Maritime Administration offered the tanker New York for charter or sale from its inventory

No one disputes that the U.S. merchant marine is in bad shape. And prospects for a turnaround are sl

Japan's Aoki Corp. and the Robert M. Bass Group, a U.S. conglomerate, have jointly purchased the Wes

A combined spray booth and stoving oven from Britain comes in either dry- filter or water-wash model

A Kuwaiti oil tanker flying a U.S. flag moored at Yarimca Harbor near this Marmara Sea coastal city

A ferryboat captain faces a U.S. Coast Guard hearing to determine whether he was negligent in the ne

A trade dispute between U.S. aircraft manufacturers and Airbus Industrie is close to being resolved,

The British government's offer to sell British Petroleum Co. shares to the public was undersubscribe

Mrs. Walter C. Diehl takes a cut with a champagne bottle at the prow of a Navy fleet oiler, the Walt

Charles McVey, the elusive exporter who allegedly masterminded a plot to sell supercomputer secrets

China is likely to continue importing pesticides and fertilizer from the United States. "It

Industry invests too much in gadgetry and too little in product information that helps customers use

Food inspection standards must be raised to combat 4 million salmonella poisoning cases a year and p

Blue chip chemical stocks were hurt in last week's market nose dive much more than pharmaceutical st

Iraq said Wednesday its warplanes raided three tankers off Iran and industrial targets on the mainla

Brazil, Banks Hit Snag On Loan CompromiseBrazilian officials and their commercial creditors,

When talk turns to responsibility for the stock market's recent collapse, traders in the Chicago fut

Japanese automakers put on display Wednesday their ideas of how cars should look in the coming decad

The nose-dive in world stock markets "could be the best thing that ever happened" if it gets the Uni

AVIATION The United States and the EC have agreed on a framework for negotiations aimed at d

Student riots, sporadic violence and economic woes on virtually every front are shaking the 25-year-

Brooklyn Union Gas Co. reported a fourth quarter loss of $11.7 million for the three months ended Se

Japan's lucrative supercomputer market shows signs of opening up, thanks to a U.S.-Japan agreement t

Officials from several large industrial nations are speculating that the United States and West Germ

More than 200 U.S. companies from 35 states are expected to attend an export show in South Korea nex