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

Navistar International Ratings Are UpgradedMoody's Investors Service said it upgraded the ra

Consolidated Natural Gas Co. said that it increased its reserves of natural gas for the fourth year

A group of U.S. business executives said the Philippines is politically stable, and two of them anno

Four struggling Latin American nations undertake new economic measures and developments: BRA

Open bidding is not possible for foreign companies hoping to win contracts in construction of the $6

Crowley Maritime Corp. agreed in principle with United States Lines Inc. to acquire USL's South Amer

The airline industry said the federal government once again is acting in bad faith by collecting use

Port of Chicago officials have undertaken a major drive to lure business into the port district's fo

White House Report On Trade to Be SecretThe Reagan administration told Congress this week it

GENERAL NEWS James R. Steckel was named vice president, production of The Journal of Commerc

Cruise ship bunkering may not seem a particularly exciting topic amid the glitz and glamor of a maj

RIVALRY OVER IMPORTS of fruit from Latin America is developing between the Florida ports of Jacksonv

Preliminary estimates by the Agriculture Department show the food marketing pipeline, extending from

Mexico is winning new foreign customers and credits for its indebted, overbuilt state steel business

Malaysia Forecasts Bullish Rubber MartKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia's rubber market is e

A proposed new sales tax is meeting mounting criticism from Japan's opposition parties and ruling pa

Tower Commission WASHINGTON - President Reagan "did not seem to be aware" of the full conseq

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has increased its reserve base by being the apparent high bidder on 39 prod

International Minerals & Chemical Corp. signed a contract for the acquisition of Pitman-Moore, a maj

Aeroport de Paris, or ADP, the French public authority managing the 14airports in the greate

At least 2,000 Western Airlines employees will be required to move from the carrier's Los Angeles he

After a 10-hour-long meeting with the government Wednesday, leaders of striking truck drivers Thurs

An administration proposal to reduce the Customs Service's personnel will be rejected by the Senate

The Paris economic accord among major industrial nations is more than words and reflects long-term c

The National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. has received a $26.6 million contract to overhaul a Navy ship

All interests with a stake in the survival of the St. Lawrence Seaway must speak out while there is

RJR Nabisco Inc.'s R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. unit realigned the management structure of its worldwid

Gold is expected to average $425 an ounce in 1987, compared with an average of $368 in 1986, Shearso

The Swiss Justice Ministry unveiled a legislative project that would make the ''laundering" of money

Eating the cows that produce the European Community's surplus butter mountain is a solution some mem

James R. Steckel, 50, was named vice president, production of The Journal of Commerce, replacing How

India produces four times as much wheat and almost twice as much rice as it did in the 1960s. But In

A unit of Fluor Corp. was awarded a contract by Union Carbide Corp. The value of the contract was no

NY Utility Converts Units to Burn CoalPOUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. - Central Hudson Gas & Electric Co.

For the week ended Feb. 14, 1987, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equ

Trade union leaders at Devonport Royal Naval Dockyard threatened Wednesday to call a mass walkout by

A coalition of 172 health-care organizations called Monday for allowing Americans to buy Medicaid in

President Reagan may veto the highway funding bill being worked out by congressional conferees becau

Ford Plans to Offer Head Gasket WarrantyFord Motor Co. Will offer an extended warranty for h