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Venezuela denied that it has been approached officially by the United States to form a common energy

Differentials between cash and futures prices for crude oil, heating oil and gasoline widened signif

Burger King Installing Cogeneration SystemsAmerican Private Power Inc., a cogeneration proje

Western Canadian coal exporters are gearing up for further price and volume cuts when contracts with

Small property owners in the nation's inner cities are falling back on emergency insurance plans in

MBIA Inc. said it will close its first deal this week as a new municipal bond insurer. The d

A coalition of insurance industry interests have charged in a federal suit that inadequate rates wil

Australian Insurer To Sever S. African TiesJOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Colonial Mutual Life

The New York State Bar Association, in a letter last Friday to Gov. Mario Cuomo and state legislator

Miffed by a drop in their export quota to the United States, Australian sugar producers are agitatin

Mexico's annual inflation rate broke the triple-digit barrier for the first time in 1986, the centra

The Japanese trade surplus with China for last year is estimated at US$4 billion, down from the US$5

Maryland will receive $80.9 million for various water projects during the 1988 fiscal year, accordin

Faced with growing economic problems, Communist Yugoslavia plans to adopt constitutional changes op

Atlantic Xpress' Container Trader will be several days late in arriving in Charleston, S.C., but the

Horace Alston and Richard Hughes have been ousted as leaders of the Internation al Longshoremen's As

Greater confidentiality in service contracts with ocean carriers will be a major goal of shippers -

A Guinness family member said that he and his family don't want the embattled chairman and chief exe

Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., the giant British conglomerate, agreed to purchase the

Key economic development leaders in Washington state highlighted the state's growing ties with Pacif

A more market-oriented world agricultural trading system is a top Reagan administration priority in

The European Community's farm policy, initially designed to stabilize the agriculture market and gua

GENERAL NEWS Favorable economic data don't appease economists. Page 3AFINANCIALThe

One aspect of the farm industry that's likely to see continued change is the banking industry.

In an effort to maintain its world market share in agriculture, Canadian authorities are banking on

Tony Hawke grimaces when foreign visitors praise this southern African nation's productive farmers,

Australian trade officials are confident that agricultural commodities eventually will come under th

The prospects of an improved export picture for U.S. farmers is bleak, agriculture officials say, un

NEC Corp., a major Japanese electronics manufacturer, plans to commission South Korean and Taiwanese

Congress is starting to map out its trade legislation strategy. About 180 House members, ove

GENERAL NEWS Merrill Lynch economists warned that improvement in the U.S. trade deficit is a

ADMINISTRATION BUDGETS are automatically considered dead on arrival these days. Such judgments are t

Brazil's CVRD state mining company is looking for a new partner to replace Japan's Nippon Amazon Alu

Late Rush Profits Retailers A last-minute rush by procrastinating Christmas shoppers turned

Government officials of some less developed countries spend wastefullybecause of sheer ignor

Record increases in interest rates plus industry and labor demands threaten a new round of spiraling

Government plans to sell off state assets in Argentina's petrochemicals industry are overshadowed by

R. Lawless Named ChiefOf CN RailRonald Lawless, president of Canadian National Railw

Chile's January-November 1986 trade surplus rose to US$981.7 million, up from $756.1 million in the

Official figures published this week portrayed a Britain divided into two nations: an affluent south