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Drawdowns in stocks and slightly lower refinery runs reported by the American Pe troleum Institute w

After almost four years of tough negotiations, Kenya is to launch a new national shipping company be

Phenol prices have risen a third to between 32 cents and 39 cents a pound since the beginning of the

A senior vice president of the Federal Express Corp. will be nominated for the top job in the Federa

Lloyd's of London will attempt to bury one of the insurance market's longest- running scandals next

South Korea Will Free Chip Import MarketSEOUL, South Korea - South Korea will end all restri

A British leather company has developed a range of saddlery for endurance riding. The saddle

An independent-minded vice president of the International Organization of Masters, Mates, and Pilots

Gencorp Inc. chairman A. William Reynolds expects to reveal within a week the specifics of the compa

Leather's Popularity Traced to New StylesNew techniques for treating leather have made it as

The economic goals of Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev appear to include ashift of some re

The Reagan administration has granted a Japanese request for emergency consultations on $300 million

U.S. construction spending rose 1 percent in February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $378.4

Prospects for banking legislation in this Congress improved with a House Banking Committee decision

The House Budget Committee adopted, on a straight party-line vote, a fiscal 1988 spending plan that

The porcupine caribous don't know it, but they're at the center of an oil and gas exploration contro

Few, if any, sparks are likely to fly when President Reagan and Prime Minister Mulroney of Canada ge

An Agriculture Department report shows that farmers, on the aver age, in March got about the same pr

Nigeria's President Ibrahim Babangida has approved a 10,000-barrel-a-day loan of crude oil to Ecuado

A team of divers said they found a valuable gold chain in the 70-year-old wreck of a British steamsh

The port of New Orleans will host a Port of New Orleans Night in Birmingham" April 15. The r

The bidding by GAF Corp. for Borg-Warner Corp. will likely go higher than the $3.17 billion offer ex

In an unusual battle, small California truckers are siding with shippers against large carriers in a

CSX Corp. reported first quarter earnings fell to $73 million, or 47 cents a share, from $85 million

Truck transport is accelerating its lead over the railroad and river barge traffic as France's top f

Malaysia Reports Drop In 1986 Tin ProductionKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia's 1986 tin pro

The increase in commercial bank prime rates isn't expected to greatly increase the financing burden

Construction Expo Set for EnglandAn exhibition of construction equipment will be held at the

GENERAL NEWS Few, if any, sparks are likely to fly when President Reagan and Prime Minister

French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac told U.S. congressmen Wednesday that his government was increas

Argentine President Raul Alfonsin swore in a union leader as the country's new labor minister amid c

The Japanese probably will be able to head off the worst of the proposed U.S. import tariffs on semi

Richard A. Debs, president of Morgan Stanley International Inc. and a managing director of Morgan St

GENERAL NEWS Few, if any, sparks are likely to fly when President Reagan and Prime Minister

A bid by the Philippines to pay interest on its debt with shares in its companies rather than with d

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

Workers at this port's largest grain elevator company staged a work stoppage Wednesday in a dispute

With the blow of a steam locomotive's whistle in a Tokyo freight yard Wednesday, the Japanese Nation

Continental Airlines has placed temporary bandages on an ailing cargo operation at Newark Internatio

Finance Minister Chung in-Yong plans to meet U.S. Treasury Secretary James Baker next week when Mr.