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The purchase by media magnate Rupert Murdoch of a substantial stake in the local South China Morning

High-level Indonesian officials are striving to keep alive a pioneering bilateral oil project in the

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

Southwest Airlines said it exercised options to buy two additional 737-300sfrom Seattle-base

Two out of three workers covered by major union contracts negotiated in the first nine months of 198

Job Growth Matches Labor Force GainsThe economy created about 300,000 to 350,000 jobs last m

Companies seeking sources for products ranging from electrical equipment tomachinery over th

Lisa Desti always did like doing things her way. A former nightclub singer who performed in

A&A Loses in Quarter, Gains in Suit SettlementAlexander & Alexander Services Inc. said it wi

New Product By MonsantoTo Bow at K'86Monsanto Chemical Co. formally will introduce t

The battle between sugar bulls and bears will continue as both sugar exports and imports are forecas

The probable break-even date for British Coal was put back by a year to fiscal year 1988-89 by the g

General Motors' closure of 11 plants will bring increased pressure on Japan to limit auto exports, a

The Maritime Administration will contract with private companies to handle 70 merchant-type ready re

A new trial lawyer-related organization in Georgia was to begin advertising over the weekend in a mo

Prime Minister Edward Seaga has submitted a tax reform plan to the Jamaican Parliament calling for a

The increase in the value of the Japanese yen against the U.S. dollar since September 1985 has cause

The United States, Canada and Australia backed a European Community request for an arbitration panel

Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japan's prime minister, and his Chinese hosts are expected to tread softly around

CME Names ArakawaTokyo ChiefThe Chicago Mercantile Exchange appointed Takeo Arakawa,

Salomon Introduces New Currency HedgeSalomon Brothers introduced a new foreign currency hedg

Lebanese cargo airline TMA is targeting early December for a resumption of the wide-ranging freighte

Copper Glo Fuel Inc., Clarfield, Tenn., received a contract to supply 11,000 tons of coal to the Ten

U.S. firms, which in the past insisted Japan buy their telecommunications products as is, now are wi

The civilian government of Thailand, a precarious institution at best, is facing a new crisis only t

Japan is asking its top industries to avoid weakening the impact of U.S. economic sanctions against

BP Ventures granted a worldwide manufacturing and sales license for its novel pigment, called Shield

The combination cruise ship and automobile ferry Scotia Prince, which for the past six years has shu

Campaign Works MOSCOW - Politburo member Yegor K. Ligachev said the anti-alcohol campaign la

China has bought some corn from the United States for the first time in three years, the Agriculture

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is "disappointed" in results from the National Cattlemen's Associati

Texas International Co. said it will offer to sell almost all of its domestic oil and gas properties

The main shipping channel into Boston harbor for petroleum products remainedclosed Thursday,

Soft Market Keeps AspirinDepressedThe market for acetylsalicylic acid, or aspirin, i

IEP (UK), the investment group headed by New Zealander Ron Brierley, has raised its bid for the U.K.

Brown Transport Offers 1.6 Million New SharesBrown Transport Co., a holding company for one

Gas from Norway's Haltenbanken offshore area could be used in the future to generate half of Sweden'

The performance of large fossil-fueled electric generating plants continued to improve in 1985, acco

Three Eastern Airlines labor unions say they have agreed to fund an employee stock ownership plan an

A U.S. official has warned Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone that Japan faces a real threat