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A dominant position as a major financial center dating back to the days of the California Gold Rush

MKT, Santa Fe Reach Agreement on MergerWASHINGTON Santa Fe Southern Pacific Industries has

Last-minute Christmas shoppers helped retailers finish the 1986 holiday shopping season with impress

Proposals to extend low-cost hydropower contracts with 22 western New York industrial ratepayers as

Egypt Increases Oil Export PricesCAIRO, Egypt - Egypt increased the January prices on all gr

United States Lines' bid to file for limited protection from creditors in Dutch bankruptcy court was

The Brazilian government is studying the possibility of releasing retail beef prices from government

The worldwide trend toward privatization of business firms is attracting increasing attention on sev

Failure to reach agreement with the unions is jeopardizing the proposed merger between the three Rot

The new U.S.-Canadian agreement imposing a 15 percent export tax on Canadian exports of softwood lum

The Soviet Union's first fully operational coal slurry pipeline is scheduled to be completed and rea

The overall market for hazardous waste management and disposal is expected to grow at an average ann

The government's best guess for U.S. industry in the new year is that if industry liked 1986, it'll

Profits of major U.S. corporations should increase about 20 percent in 1987 over last year, aided by

French ports and the national economy have been hurt by a strike launched in early December by tug b

December 31, 1986 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gall

After a series of unhappy experiences with foreign oil companies, the West African republic of Benin

The seizure of a record volume of cocaine hidden within two containers brought into the country aboa

Grains Commodity Groups said they were pleased with the U.S. sanctions against European Community im

The president of the South Louisiana Port Commission resigned Wednesday in protest over a proposed

Containerization & Intermodal Institute. All-day seminar on the impact of the 1984 Shipping Act on c

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

Salicylic Acid Market Seen Stable The market for salicylic acid is reported to be stable.Cry

Wash. Insurance Firms Asked to Cut Auto RatesOLYMPIA, Wash. - Washington state's insurance c

A federal judge lifted a New Year's Day deadline for doctors to sign up to participate in Medicare w

To buy or not to buy computer equipment? With software vendors out hawking attractive leasing plans,

A Boeing marketing executive says he has been scratching his head trying to figure out why McDonnell

Chinese cities are forging trading links with manufacturing areas in Britain and trying to recruit e

The National Coal Association has engaged Virginia Power in the first major skirmish over a law coal

The 357,430-deadweight-ton tanker Happy Enterprise, a victim of the Iran-Iraq war, could become the

Midwest Grain Products Inc. of Atchison, Kan., announced it had acquired the Pillsbury Co.'s local f

Wednesday, Dec. 31, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

USX Corp. said its Marathon Oil Co. unit will call for redemption on March 1 its 12 1/2 percent gua

A record $19.2 billion merchandise trade deficit in November raised more doubts about a substantiall

Commission Approves 14 percent PSNH Rate HikeMANCHESTER, N.H. - Public Service of New Hampsh

A plant expansion program at Fayetteville, N.C., exceeding $10 million for the production of urea a

The new oil-production accord reached by members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countrie

Orange juice, grapefruit and cattle feed are among the agricultural productsfrom the United

The Tennessee Valley Authority purchased 22,000 tons of coal from Kopper Glo Fuel Inc., Clairfield,

The Ford Electronics and Refrigeration Corp. of Lansdale, Pa., in 1986, saved about $15 million with