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Delegates from the world's major coffee-producing and coffee-consuming countries meet in London star

Lumber production, orders and shipments all decreased in 12 Western states in the week ended Sept. 6

The Federal Maritime Commission said it will monitor the Asia North American Eastbound Rate Agreemen

Indonesia devalued its currency by 45 percent, to 1,644 rupiahs to one U.Sdollar, to prevent

The Reagan administration is downplaying the numbers of Americans who are either uninsured or underi

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher tacitly approved Norway's preliminary 10 percent oil export

A little known Hong Kong-Australian group is extending its reach in the United States with the takeo

If foreign leaders received ticker tape welcomes, President Corazon C. Aquino, who arrives in Washin

It's very late in the congressional session for action, but the House Merchant Marine subcommittee w

The House Agriculture Committee Friday approved a bill aimed at boosting grain quality and restricti

Rancho Seco Start-up Delayed 2 More MonthsThe proposed start-up time for the Rancho Seco nuc

Gorbachev Gives Hints Of Journey to JapanMikhail Gorbachev, Soviet premier, indicated in a m

The convulsions that rocked the financial markets in recent days have shaken the confidence of large

General Motors Corp., accelerating its efforts to slash its white-collar labor force, wants 5 percen

Foreign banks operating in the United States are lobbying to remove a tax reform bill proposal that

When the earthquake last year wiped out Mexico's most important hospitals, it also brought down a da

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

Emery Air Freight is expected to launch an intra-European air hub at Maastricht Airport in southern

EGYPT - $5.1 million to erect 46 water purification plants along the Nile River from Aswan to Cairo

If foreign leaders received ticker tape welcomes, President Corazon C. Aquino, who arrives in Washin

An invasion of grasshoppers and locusts threatens to spread to new areas of central and southern Af

Financial assistance and direction from a major South Korean bank are expected to help the Korea Shi

The Tung Shipping Group signed a US$277 million ship financing deal with a syndicate of banks as a p

Some analysts fear that higher interest rates are ahead because of reports showing strong retail sal

A mid-stream bulk-cargo handling facility will be developed in the Mississippi River below New Orlea

The tentative contract settlement between the railroad industry and the Brotherhood Railway Carmen m

Japan's five biggest steel companies said they will skip the usual mid-term dividend payments for th

The Reagan administration may resort to retaliatory measures against Japanesefinancial insti

New York has become the first state to quantify the effects of tort reform legislation on insurance

The U.S. dollar fell over a broad front Friday, giving up nearly all of the week's gains. In

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

CSX Corp. agreed to sell virtually all of its coal properties to Houston- based Quintana Minerals Co

IBM to Make Software At New Center in RomeInternational Business Machines Corp. is establish

Texas Air Sells Slots As Part of Eastern DealTexas Air Corp. has sold Pan American World Air

GENERAL NEWSStrong showings in retail sales and a pickup in producer prices have analysts fe

Hygeia Sciences Inc. of Newton, Mass., and Miles Laboratories Inc. of Elkhart, Ind., a subsidiary of

Egypt is in the market for 400,000 to 500,000 tons of coking coal for 1987, a trader said, and vendo

Union Carbide Agricultural Products Co. Inc. announced that the results of an independent study on t

A growing number of developing countries are turning to private enterprise to help spur their econom

Japan's five biggest steel companies said they will skip the usual mid-term dividend payments for th