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The U.S. dollar traded higher at mid-day, posting a small rise from morning levels, but interest con

Union leaders at Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. reacted with a mixture of gloom and defiance to announce

Wed., July 29, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

The House and Senate Banking Committee chairmen are awaiting the final wordfrom President Re

Borden Will Sell Stock In Petrochemical UnitNEW YORK Borden Inc. said it has approved a p

Who is escorting whom in the Persian Gulf? - Robert Byrd, Senate majority leader Saying that

Occidental Petroleum Corp. and E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. announced that they have signed a lette

High winds and 9-foot waves delayed efforts to load the supertanker Bridgeton with oil, and it dropp

The International Association of Independent Tanker Owners called on major world powers to form a mu

Merck & Co. plans to purchase up to $1 billion of the company's stock is indicative of the pharmaceu

The Bonn government said Wednesday it would refuse to send West German ships into the Persian Gulf,

Diamond Alaska Coal Co.'s effort to win a coal supply contract from South Korea's national utility c

Some 5,300 employees at Yugoslavia's largest port of Rijeka went back to work Tuesday after a five-d

Hercules Inc. announced that its Brazilian subsidiary, Hercules do Brasil, has begun an $11 million

M.A. Hanna Co., which recently announced a tender offer to acquire all outstanding stock of Day Inte

A federal judge has dismissed a suit filed by a dissident ranch heir against Exxon Corp. and the Kin

Sun Energy Reports Slight Dip in EarningsRADNOR, Pa. - Sun Energy Partners L.P. reported ear

Exxon Corp. declared a cash dividend of $1 a share on capital stock, payable on Sept. 10 to sharehol

An official of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry denied press reports that it has

BP America Inc. has combined financial trading activities for the former BP North America Inc. and T

The charge before the prosecutor was simple enough: trespassing, for participation in a mass demonst

Supplies of key petroleum products are following normal seasonal patterns with gasoline stocks decli

Units of Bristol-Meyers Co. and Tenneco Inc. are the first two companies to win approval to open for

Munich Re AG, the world's largest reinsurance company, reported that it expects a parent company pro

Brazil is miscast as a villain in U.S. trade debates, but it will still make heroic efforts to resol

President Alan Garcia's decision to nationalize the financial system and close down private foreign

Domestic sugar and sweetener producers said they will push for free world trade in sugar. As

The House Wednesday turned back attempts to remove limits on liability for the nuclear utility indus

AVIATION Air freight imports to Taiwan increased almost 50 percent in the first six months o

CSX Transportation claims it will become the first major railroad to dispatch all its trains from on

Rear Adm. Paul L. Krinsky is the new superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Poi

The House Rules Committee could be asked as early as today to clear the way for the conference repor

Brazilian President Jose Sarney's announcement that Brazil may resume international debt payments in

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

A report by the Agriculture Department's Foreign Agricultural Service says a growing world demand fo

July 29, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

The outlook for coal use, especially in the Northeastern United States, will be "much better" in the

Six former top officials and technicians at the Chernobyl power plant were found guilty of gross neg

Diamond Alaska Coal Co. is offering a package deal to South Korea's national utility company in a bi

A top U.S. spokesman on farm trade says President Reagan's administration wants Japanese consumers t