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The Interior Department on Tuesday endorsed a bill to subject all onshore federal oil leases to comp

US Computer Firm Opens Singapore PlantCompaq Computer Corp. said it has opened a printed cir

Traditional Exports To the United States: Heavy industrials, chemicals, electronic equipment

Airports waging the competitive battle for passenger fares will raise the white flag when developing

Intermodal business continues to ride the tide of high imports despite pessimistic growth forecasts

The Prudential Insurance Co. of America wants no part of a bankruptcy court deal to sell United Stat

The Senate voted Wednesday to strike from its trade bill a provision which would have required the p

Trinidad and Tobago has banned garment imports, except those produced by its neighbors in the Caribb

Companies based in the Southeast continue to out-perform their national counterparts, according to J

State insurance regulators blasted Washington for even thinking of regulating the insurance business

The Norwegian government is still deciding how to respond to the U.S. Senate vote calling for a ban

Trading Begins On MBIA StockWHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Trading on MBIA Inc.'s initial public offer

Legislation allowing banks to expand into insurance was vetoed this week by Gov. Richard Bryan.<

Oil Minister Sheik Ali Khalifa al-Sabah says Kuwait's new oil production quota of 996,000 barrels a

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted unanimously to give a full- poweroperati ng license to Nine

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

The government of St. Lucia is studying proposals from a U.S. company for a new hotel and casino com

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

A U.S.-Indonesian joint venture is building southeast Asia's first plant to produce fatty alcohol et

Escalating research in genetic chemistry is driving the $50-million to $55- million U.S. market for

Witco Corp. announced it has acquired U.S. Emulsifier Inc., Memphis, Tenn., a subsidiary of Valley F

Chalk up one more for the Japanese - to the annoyance of U.S. business. They're building an

Shipping analysts are confident that the merger of the Cunard Steam-Ship and Eller man Lines shippin

US International Reinsurance Co. announced the appointments of two new officers hired from the compe

The Brazilian government broadened its international debt moratorium to include principal payments o

The Miami insurance exchange was left waiting down to the wire about its future. Florida Gov

The Senate agreed to amend pending trade legislation to address specifically unfair foreign shipping

Reliance Insurance Co. said it formed a specialty property/casualty insurance unit headed by two for

Business analysts here see the abrupt resignation of two top Toshiba Corp. executives primarily as a

British Develop Telescopic SpreaderA telescopic spreader beam for ship-to-shore container ha

The Federal Aviation Administration withdrew eight test problems for air traffic controllers after c

Potash Co. of America has announced present and future price changes for muriate of potash.

Owens-Corning Teams With Taiwan GlassTOLEDO, Ohio - Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. signed an

Lilly Industrial Coatings Inc. reported net income for the second quarter ending May 31 was $2.8 mil

Air traffic on the French domestic airline Air Inter was cut by 40 percent Monday as another strike

Britain and Spain failed Monday to resolve their dispute over Gibraltar airport, which threatens to

Magazine Examines Railroad RegulationRailroad regulation is examined in the new issue of Reg

Look for Burlington Northern Railroad to decide very soon whether it will introduce containers into

Oil production by the 11 members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Ex porting Countries rose by

GM to Lay Off 3,000 As Phase-Outs BeginGeneral Motors Corp. will lay off 3,000 hourly worker