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With money pouring from a booming export business, a lust for gambling has taken hold and turned thi

SHAKLEE TO SELL STAKE IN ITS JAPANESE UNITShaklee Corp., a nutritional goods and consumer pr

U.S. companies hungry for business in Italy reported favorable results during a four-day "matchmaker

Maritime Administrator John Gaughan has asked the Federal Maritime Commission to delay further actio

Despite the nation's growing number of AIDS victims, the deadly disease has yet to have any major im

As the decade draws to a close, people in the heart of Illinois' aging oil patch are starting to thi

Two Japanese nuclear reactors were shut down because of a defect discovered earlier this month in a

Sun Refining & Marketing Co. Thursday increased its barge price for No. 2 heating oil by 0.50 cent t

For 14 hours as a broiling summer day dissolved into a sultry night at New York's Coxsackie state pr

REGIONAL BLOCS PacRim '89. Feb. 19-21. A biennial forum where more than 600 world political

VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF WORLD TRADE (Norfolk, Va.) - Four people to help oversee import and export ma

Grenada's economy is rapidly improving over five years after U.S. forces landed on the small Caribbe

In a closely watched report that often gives early signals of economic activity, the nation's purcha

West German police seized 255 tons of a chemical bound for Libya, but U.S. chemical weapons experts

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

CONTINENTAL CHIEF QUITS AFTER ONE YEAR AT POSTHOUSTON - Martin Shugrue, who took over as pre

Texas oilman Robert Mosbacher was sworn in as secretary of commerce Friday, pledging to help America

Moves are under way to further ease sales of U.S. high technology to China without violating guideli

S. KOREA MAY IMPORT MORE BEEF THIS YEARSEOUL, South Korea - South Korea may import 10,000 to

Five heads of state will meet in Marrakesh this month to discuss forging a North African trade union

Dow Chemical U.S.A. removed a 2-cent-a-pound temporary voluntary allowance, or TVA, from phenol pric

ITC RULING FAVORS THERMOSTAT IMPORTSThe U.S. International Trade Commission has determined t

A former model put all her money in one basket, and now heads a company that grossed almost a millio

FACTORY ORDERS SURGED OVER 4 PERCENT IN DECEMBEROrders to U.S. factories for manufactured go

A major Japanese shippers association contends a capacity-reduction agreement among 13 carriers in t

Representatives of the North American electronic data interchange community now have a bureaucracy t

The American Trucking Associations, Alexandria, Va., has created a Management Systems Council to hel

Thirty-six Japanese and foreign airlines operating out of Japan have agreed to clamp down harder on

Companies involved in mergers or buy-outs slowed their spending on research and development in 1986

Shipping industry leaders and analysts expressed fear that a potential order by Nedlloyd Lines for f

The Soviet government has eased restrictions on joint ventures between Soviet shipping enterprises a

Zimbabwe is rethinking its economic policies under pressure from an ever- longer line of young peopl

Chevron U.S.A. Inc.'s natural gas discovery in the eastern Gulf of Mexico has exploration officials

UPJOHN NET RISES ON ROGAINE SALESKALAMAZOO, Mich. - Rising foreign sales of the anti-baldnes

New incentives are being readied by the Malaysian government to encourage overseas investment, and s

Fri., Feb. 3, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

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

NEW NETWORK PRODUCTS INTRODUCED BY AT&TYORK - American Telephone & Telegraph Co. is introduc

World crude oil output in January averaged 49.6 million barrels a day, down 4 million b/d from Decem

A newspaper report Thursday that Dubai is to cut its crude oil output in February or March is "nonse