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FINANCIALThe seesaw pattern of the credit markets last week will continue while participants

Lumber Production, Shipments IncreasePORTLAND, Ore. - Lumber production and shipments increa

One of the largest companies in Malaysia, Promet Bhd., has been placed in receivership as creditor b

Iowa Governor Opens Trade Office in TokyoIowa Gov. Terry Branstad formally opened the Depart

An Arkansas judge who said he plans to let Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. take over $2.1 billion in

The Maritime Administration will put into effect in late October a new method of calculating operati

A UTILITY FUEL BUYER has a suggestion on contract coal pricing that makes some producers cringe.

Hargreaves Rejects Coalite Takeover BidHargreaves Group PLC, an oil and coal trading company

Indonesia is optimistic that world oil prices will rise following the Sept. 1 production cuts by mem

With traffic at the West Coast's largest airport expected to rise by 50 percent to 125 percent in th

A nuclear graveyard in space is filling with debris from worn-out Soviet satellites, and poses the t

Passenger Ship Burns in ShanghaiA passenger ship under repair near Shanghai caught fire Frid

The stress in American agriculture and agricultural finance will deepen without new policies and pra

Enrollment Declines At US Medical SchoolsMore and more graduates of U.S. medical schools are

Deepening losses apparently are unraveling efforts to prop up ailing Mission Insurance Co., controll

Union Carbide Corp. announced plans for a 50 percent increase in latex production capacity at its UC

The growing ability of large industrial companies to shop around for low-cost electric power could c

A computerized system capable of monitoring radioactive fallout caused by accidents at nuclear power

Picture a world in which the United States imports nearly half its oil, largely from the Middle Eas

Conrail Busy Upgrading Niagara Junction TrackConsolidated Rail Corp. is installing 9.5 miles

Rover Group PLC, Britain's biggest carmaker, reported an operating loss for the first half of the ye

Congress is about to slash contributions to the major international economic aid agencies. T

Sparse but intense reaction greeted a Federal Maritime Commission proposal to revise some of its pro

The United Kingdom will have 13.36 million metric tons of surplus grain available for export in 198

IMF MADAGASCAR - $36 million from the International Monetary Fund to help the government car

The Economic and Scientific Research Foundation, New Delhi, an organization attached to Federation o

Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd., Hong Kong's premier trading group, said net income soared 173 percen

Dana Corp. an Ohio-based firm that produces and distributes motor vehicle and industrial power trans

The weekly general freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent

The TransPacific Westbound Rate Agreement has set up a telephone hotline to provide information abou

Major quantities of Mideast petrochemicals will be consumed locally and regionally in the coming yea

Schering-Plough reached several major milestones in 1986 as a result of growth strategies, achieved

Productivity of Britain's ailing coal industry has reached record high levels, helped by the coal bo

About 70 percent of the construction workers still on the job at the almost- completed Nine Mile Poi

Senior energy officials from 83 nations, ending a post-Chernobyl meeting, have agreed on the wording

The number of U.S. foreign trade zones is increasing, but the duty-free area concept has not yet rea

The European Commission said it will send a new mission to Japan this week to press it to open its e

IMF-World Bank Meet WASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meeti

The dairy lobby - already considered one of the most influential groups on Capitol Hill - shows no s

Nearly two weeks of talks among International Coffee Organization producers and consumers ended with