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Argentina is close to an agreement with its commercial creditors on reschedul ing $34 billion of its

GENERAL NEWS The Supreme Court will determine the tax status of corporate stock purchases ma

GENERAL NEWS The Supreme Court will determine the tax status of corporate stock purchases ma

The Supreme Court will determine the tax status of corporate stock purchases made for business purpo

American businesses plan to raise investment in plants and equipments by 2 percent, to $383.7 billio

Top Stories Increased exports of services such as tourism have led to "respectable growth" o

The chairman of the House Budget Committee believes new revenues in the fiscal 1988 budget should be

Asia's privatization wave is lapping at Singapore's shores, with recommendation s that could have sw

A Federal Highway Administration proposal that would allow truck fleets to conduct their own safety

Deportation Case WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear an appeal by the

Karl-Heinz Sager had reason to smile. The weather was Chamber of Commerce perfect, and the president

MMC Corp., a Cranford, N.J.-based data-processing company, wants to reduce the tree-killing activiti

The United Nations is working on practical" approaches to tackling the debt re payment problems and

West India Line, which operated in the Caribbean trade, has completed its liquidation with the sale

When genetic engineers walk through a field of strawberries near the Sacramento River delta later th

Diversification and management succession are just two of the big issues Consolidated Rail Corp. mus

France's state-controlled shipping group, Compagnie Generale Maritime, or CGM, managed to trim its o

The Maritime Administration has again put up for sale three liquefied natural gas tankships it took

In the cool morning hours of a Brazilian summer day, a convoy of tank trucks winds down the seacoast

As Foss Maritime Co.'s president sat in his office overlooking the Lake Washington Ship Canal, steel

This will be another good year for China's shipbuilding industry, a senior official believes.

Cars, trucks and vans are shown at Copenhagen's new car terminal. The facility is operated by the C

Growing numbers of companies are specifying Vancouver as the place to hold arbitration hearings if m

The Federal Maritime Commission received five applications for licenses to act as ocean freight forw

Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp. expects to hear soon if it will be the first U.S. shipbuilder to win a

Jim Wells, who recently retired as executive vice president of the New York Oil Heat Asso ciation,

The Great Lakes District of the International Longshoremen's Association wound up its convention her

Petronas, the Malaysian state energy monopoly, plans to go ahead with a new oil refinery and petroc

Iraq Shuffles Cabinet, Names Abdul-RahimNICOSIA, Cyprus - Issam Abdul-Rahim was appointed as

Everyone, except the state of Hawaii, seems eager to simplify the Federal Maritime Commission's syst

Two weeks prior to a meeting between U.S. and Canadian heads of state, the Reagan administration is

Prices for unleaded regular self-service gasoline are up 0.7 cent since February to 91.8 cents a gal

Retail gasoline prices, which have fluctuated all year, rose more than a penny in the last two weeks

The multibillion-dollar judgment awarded Pennzoil Co. in its legal battle with oil industry rival Te

The Prudhoe Bay oil field, on Alaska's North Slope, this month produced its 5 billionth barrel of cr

State-owned Petroleum Corp. of Jamaica is building a 40-million-gallon-a-year fuel-grade ethanol pla

China Will Cut Price Of Steam Coal ExportsChina agreed to cut its 1987 steam coal export pri

Huntsman Chemical Corp. signed an agreement with Grand Pacific Petrochemical Corp. to manufacture a

Hoechst Celanese Increases PricesHoechst Celanese Corp. announced it will increase the price

The Australian Bureau of Resources, Geology and Geophysics in its annual survey of the metals indus