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

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

3Com Corp. to Move To Larger FacilityMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - 3Com Corp. signed a $6.9 millio

Subsidized U.S. production has been blamed for most of the problems facing the Australian rice indus

Monsanto Co. said it sold its vanillin business to Rhone-Poulenc Inc. Roger F. Sellew, comme

Eastern Airlines is withdrawing three more A300s from its Moonlight Special joint venture with CF Ai

A popular holiday resort area in southeast England, the Isle of Thanet, is set to become a major Eur

The board of Gelco Corp. unanimously rejected a bid led by Coniston Partners, a New York investors'

GENERAL NEWS Philip Morris will sell Seven-Up to a Dallas company. Page 2AThe board of Gel

In the nine months since the Gramm-Rudman balanced-budget act became law, Congress has missed every

Top Stories The Dominican Republic seems "ripe for foreign investment" as U.S. firms see the

Beer drinkers poured into Munich again to happily quaff millions of liters of beer at the famed Okto

Brazil will retain a domestic market reserve law for data processing, and respond in-kind to U.S. tr

General Dynamics has received 17 bids, only one of which has been made public, for its 180-acre Quin

France's financially troubled shipping sector received a major fillip when the government of Prime M

Recent strength in U.S. eastern belt processor bids for soybeans, linked to harvest delays and attra

The Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corp. said it would postpone this month's bond offering.<

The United Steelworkers Union strike, which has tied up the Great Lakes ore carriers of USX, has spr

Oscar Mayer Foods Corp. will permanently close its Beardstown, Ill., hog processing plant April 10 b

Taiwan Soon Will Allow Private Gold ImportsTAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan soon will allow private g

Two days after ignoring a deadline to buy subsidized U.S. grain, the Soviet Union signed a five-year

Nigerian Minister Sees OPEC Raising CeilingNigeria's Oil Minister Rilwanu Lukman was quoted

Analysts said indecisiveness likely will be the hallmark of the stock market over the weeks ahead.

New Penn Motor Express Inc. may be a veritable trucking giant in northern and central Pennsylvania,

The first economic news from September was very bad for the U.S. economy, but the much weaker-than-e

An unequal division of traffic between the port of Vancouver's two container terminals is to receive

A Japanese academy of engineering would not have five lawyers on a meeting program, an attorney-engi

U.S. textile industry spokesmen said the Reagan administration's threat to impose a 10 percent quota

Foreign coal suppliers have accounted for one-third of the bids for coal needed next year at Central

West Germany's machine tool industry is booming despite a visible decline in the flow of orders from

Brazilian textile manufacturers would spend almost $10 billion in order to maintain export capacity

Japanese investors will receive their first delivery of aluminum ingots from Brazil's new Albras ref

Customers of Japan-based non-vessel-operating common carriers who have been shipping their cargoes o

Sumitomo Establishes Center in Toledo, OhioSumitomo Corp., a major Japanese trading house, h

The value of oil drilling equipment tumbled along with oil, but machinery prices are beginning to cl

Massachusetts motorists can save up to 10 percent on their automobile insurance if they don't drive

What was once considered a dogfight between the service station industry and automobile manufacturer

Strike 1, financial guarantee insurance companies. Proposed New York legislation to require

Walsh Construction Co., a unit of Guy F. Atkinson Co. of California, started building a 30-megawatt

BASF will build another acrylic acid plant at its production complex in Ludwigshafen, West Germany,