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China's retail sales will reach 560 billion yuan ($150 billion) in 1987, up 13 percent from this yea

Corporate treasurers and financial institutions are "capturing" six or more quarterly dividends in t

Trade between South Africa and the politically hostile black-ruled nations of Africa has experienced

William O. Bailey, president of Aetna Life & Casualty Co., is giving up half his job at the nation's

Trans World Airlines is shopping for another airline to keep TWA profitable, Carl Icahn, TWA chairma

Supplies of distillate fuel declined while gasoline stocks rose, according to the American Petroleum

December 3, 1986 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallo

Iraq's oil minister Qassim Taki Al-Oraibi said his country would push for an equal production quota

EVER NOTICE HOW DIFFERENT PEOPLE sometimes come up with the same conclusions? Shortly after

Bank clerks began sifting through the last of millions of applications for shares in British Gas aft

Arco International Oil and Gas Co. said its Indonesian unit successfully tested the NF-1 exploratory

Egypt Will Maintain Oil Export PricesCAIRO, Egypt - Egypt decided to maintain present oil ex

Schering-Plough Corp. increased its earnings substantially this year and expects them to increase ag

Argentine government officials claim to have reached an agreement in principle on resolving the prot

Uniroyal Inc. said that it has completed its previously announced plan of paying off debts and dist

After 37 years working a one-man coal mine, Ralph Bloom says he's ready toquit because of st

Executives of W.R. Grace & Co.'s Channel division say they acquired the unit in a $250 million lever

Dow Removes AllowanceOn ResinsMIDLAND, Mich. - The Dow Chemical Co. announced the re

Attendees at a conference on New England's electric power needs walked away praising the amount of i

Reilly Reports NiacinamidePrice HikeReilly Tar & Chemical announced an increase in i

The U.S. Department of Energy signed a model agreement with the state of Illinois pledging cooperati

Va. College Wins Grant For Clean Coal ResearchERNDON, Va. - Virginia Polytechnic Institute a

Ten concerns filed applications to become licensed forwarders in the foreign trades. At the

A regional railroad that operates in central Indiana is betting that there is a market for a coal di

Bureaucratic thickets can have their benefits, Thelma Issman will tell you. For without the

After 13 months of intermittent discussions with shipowners and marine trade unions, the Greek gover

The U.S.S.R. reported it will use intensive technology for its grain crops on 36 million hectares in

HIGH AND DRY: The port of Long Beach so far has fared well during the saga of United States Lines. U

After the passage of the Grain Quality Improvement Act of 1986, many quality issues remained, and th

Bunge to Sell 7 Plants To Central SoyaBunge Corp. signed a letter of intent to sell seven of

French maize producers see hope in resolving the EC-U.S. feed grain dispute over Spanish accession t

Indonesia's earnings from coffee exports between October 1985 and September 1986 reached US$899.7 mi

Falling prices have triggered an emergency meeting of the International Coffee Organization executiv

The key to reversing or at least stemming the "worst crisis world agriculture is facing since the Gr

P&O and European Ferries, two of Britain's largest shipping groups, are due to make an announcement

The U.S. sugar program has impoverished developing countries and impaired their ability to repay deb

When Holland America Line weighed anchor and moved its North American cruise ship headquarters from

GENERAL NEWSSales of new single-family homes in the United States fell 9 percent in October.

After two years of debate, the Italian Parliament passed a law granting sizable state subsidies to b

Overcapacity and rate competition in the Puget Sound-to-Alaska waterborne trade will intensify next