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GENERAL NEWS Business economists say goodbye to the era of very low inflation and rising bud

Demand for platinum reached an all-time high last year, while investor interest looks like continuin

The Social Democratic/Liberal Party Alliance, which published its election manifesto Monday morning,

The newly refitted Queen Elizabeth 2 returned to Britain almost three hours late Sunday carrying pa

U.S. military families based in Europe might never have left the United States as far as their shopp

The York Country Sheriff's Department has seized in Toronto harbor a Bahamian-registered cargo ship

Railroad retirement funding problems have become a key long-term issue for the railroad industry.

Worlds of Wonder, the toy manufacturer that scored a hit with its Teddy Ruxpin computerized teddy be

Crude oil futures flirted with the $20 mark Monday on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The

Borg-Warner to Sell Transportation UnitBorg-Warner Corp. said it plans to sell its transport

An advisory committee to Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry agreed to revise its l

Alpha Solarco Inc. has signed two $175 million development contracts with the Pawnee and Otoe-Missou

Oman, a non-OPEC oil producer, will continue its cooperation with the group's efforts to stabilize t

Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the former powerful oil minister of Saudi Arabia, calls him "Mister OPEC."<

More than 400 nuclear plants worldwide will be producing electricity this year, but the number plann

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

The State Consumer Protection Board said the Long Island Lighting Co. has failed to provide a reason

Concern is growing in the U.S. leather and hide industry over rocketing prices and over-reliance on

An international trading deal that saw U.S.-made warplanes sold to Spain is resulting in the assembl

U.S. exporters attending an international coal trade conference here took one on the chin from Irela

Methane Explodes In Soviet Coal MineMethane exploded in a coal mine in the eastern Ukraine,

Sharp increases in cotton and rice exports, rare bright spots in the otherwise glum U.S. trade pictu

Ten companies that have been successful in promoting the sale of New York state products abroad will

Export Insurance Pact To Assist Tool MakersFive machine tool firms are the first to qualify

The U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, an agency that seeks to promote U.S. exports, has been hard

The U.S. maritime community must provide balance in the congressional debate on an omnibus trade bi

Top Stories While Pennsylvania's smokestack industries continue to decline, expansion in the

Strong demand in the market for polypropylene has spurred the completion of Phillips 66 Co.'s 170 mi

Occidental Chemical Corp. announced an increase on its off-schedule prices for chlorine and caustic

Guardian Industries Corp. announced that a subsidiary will construct a new float glass manufacturing

The U.S. dollar was mixed Friday after declining in early trading on weak economic statistics and ri

Venezuela's debt-to-equity swap plan has received a generally cool reactionfrom foreign bank

A $1 billion order that General Electric Co. won last week doesn't spell the end of a downturn in or

The successful sale of Conrail has energized the Transportation Department to move ahead with the pr

GENERAL NEWS New government figures underscore fears of a soft economy beset with ever- fast

A forum aimed at addressing some Electronic Data Interchange issues left a sweet taste in the mouths

Japan's machinery exports in fiscal 1986, which ended March 31, fell 12.8 percent from the year befo

They were two key economic reports, closely watched for signals on inflation and industrial activity

For the week ended May 2, piggyback freight hauled by the nation's major railroads totalled 97,670 t

GENERAL NEWS New government figures underscore fears of a soft economy beset with ever- fast