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Interest Rates Spur Resales of HomesConsumers' apparent worries over rising interest rates p

Argentina has opened a third round of bids for oil exploration, sweetening the terms for investors a

Japan, China Sign Loan Accord for 1987Japan will provide China with 85 billion yen, or $586

Japan's Daihatsu Motor Co. and Bombardier Inc. of Canada have abandoned plans to jointly produce car

Domestic exports in May shot up after a sluggish April, with re-exports and imports growing at a slo

The tremendous dependence" by Asian exporters on the United States as a market is piling up serious

Recent oil price stability has yet to return much vitality to the Alaskan economy. The state

Jobs created by Japanese firms in California have increased by 56 percent since 1983, and all indica

Evidence that the Greeks are drawing on their savings to support a buying spree, at a time when both

The tremendous dependence" by Asian exporters on the United States as a market is piling up serious

The port of Freeport, Texas, has called for changes in "flagrantly discriminatory" federal laws that

Shipping industry officials blame a 17 percent decline in coal shipments from Lake Erie ports during

The National Marine Fisheries Service announced regulations designed to reduce the number of sea tur

The Italian car group Fiat announced Wednesday the signing of a joint venture project for the assemb

Japan's Daihatsu Motor Co. and Bombardier Inc. of Canada have abandoned plans to jointly produce car

Japan, China Sign Loan Accord for 1987Japan will provide China with 85 billion yen, or $586

The Federal Maritime Commission has approved a batch of primarily technical changes in its regulatio

A section of the Rhein River near Karlsruhe, West Germany, remains closed to shipping as abnormally

The two commuter ferries that collided off the fog-shrouded Monmouth County, N.J., coast were not us

Standard Oil Co. has placed Blossom Coal Co., the only coal property it owns in Kentucky, on the sal

This nation's oldest nuclear power plant was judged safe by the International Atomic Energy Agency,

NCR Corp. announced a new computer program that will let engineers design custom computer chips more

The newly merged National Coal Association and the Mining and Reclamation Council met in Chicago thi

Some state legislators are making a last-ditch effort to pass a bill insuring the nine members of th

GENERAL NEWS Top superconductor physicists predict a room-temperature superconductor will be

The Australian subsidiary of General Motors has become the country's largest exporter of manufacture

Four Japanese manufacturers of heavy-duty trucks have halted exports to North Korea temporarily beca

The current upheaval in South Korea is not likely to tarnish that nation's long-term economic outloo

Peat Marwick named several partners. Steven R. Kay audit partner, insurance and government auditing,

Revolutionary new superconductors that would operate at room temperature will be developed in the ne

For the past decade, the American Chamber of Commerce in Brazil has presented annual Million Dollar

The Reagan administration and a broad business trade coalition lashed out at the Senate omnibus trad

Congressmen and industry-supported environmental groups are calling for the federal government to pr

GENERAL NEWS Top superconductor physicists predict a room-temperature superconductor will be

The declining dollar and U.S. tax law changes substantially influenced interna tional investment flo

Now that Congress has kindled a fire under the trucking industry to accept controversial new brake t

Every morning at precisely 7:45, Jim Calder goes outside his Chelmsford home - 30 miles east of Lond

Financial seas have been rough for the Companhia de Navegacao Lloyd Brasileiro, or Lloydbras, Brazil

The American Association of Port Authorities has a new president - Erik Stromberg, formerly the asso

The United States and Brazil appear close to a major accord on computer software protection.