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Mexico's oil export earnings plummeted to $5.57 billion last year, a staggering $8.5 billion drop be

Great Lake Diversions Seen Taking NY PowerNew York Power Authority Chairman Richard M. Flynn

PPG Industries Inc. will operate a General Motors automotive painting facility at GM's Buick Reatta

Italy has signed a series of agreements worth $18 million with the United Nations' new biotechnology

Foreign firms will be allowed to join in a new international telecommunications consortium that wil

The Senate Finance Committee voted to direct the Reagan administration to probe Canada's recent tari

Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III says the Reagan administration still wants $200 million from C

The chairman of the Assembly's budget committee proposed cutting the sales tax 2 cents and increasin

At a time when U.S. semiconductor companies are using the specter of Japanese domination to push fo

The introduction in the U.S. Congress earlier this month of a sanctions bill against Chile already h

UK Banks Lower Base Lending RateBritain's major banks cut their base lending rate by half a

U.S. economic growth slumped to a meager 1.1 percent annual rate for the final three months of 1986,

A leading Chinese banker charged that decentralization of the economy was a mistake and that it will

Asia tightened its stranglehold on the world shipbuilding market last year as Japan accounted for ne

Supplies of both distillate oil and gasoline declined, according to the American Petroleum Institute

A process using flue gas cleanup devices is moving to the head of the class of the clean coal burnin

In its first year as a separately quoted company, Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. notched up record prof

GENERAL NEWS House subcommittees continued to work quickly on major sections of the omnibus

Navigators Group Inc., an insurance holding company whose Navigators Insur ance Co. unit specializes

Oregon Gov. Neil Goldschmidt is half way home in getting authority to appoint the president of the P

California Faces Risky Fiscal FutureCalifornia's economy may seem healthy, but the state fac

Nobel Suffers Loss In Fourth QuarterHAMILTON, Bermuda - Nobel Insurance Ltd. reported an ope

The trucking industry's continued reliance on general rate increases drew further hostile fire from

Railroads' Revenues Are Called AdequateNo major railroads are earning adequate revenues, the

Taiwan Found Dumping Pipes, TubesThe Commerce Department, in a preliminary determination, fo

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

Francis A. Scanlan, a Philadelphia maritime attorney who has been prominent in North Atlantic port m

Top state and local transportation officials who met here St. Patrick's Day for some chest-thumping

The 24,213-deadweight-metric-ton Panamanian bulk carrier Bursa Bay and the Panamanian freighter Tram

W.J. Amoss Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. Inc., favors retai

Premier Richard Hatfield will appear before a special Commons committee soon to explain why New Brun

Consolidated Gets Nod For Marketing UnitConsolidated Natural Gas Co. said it received author

Long Island Lighting Co. hired a new president last January after the post had been vacant for about

Howard C. Homeyer, Texas Eastern Gas Pipeline Co. president, testified recently that the company is

Toxic chemical contamination at a railyard outside Philadelphia was the worst ever found by investig

Bayer AG is being sued in West Germany and the United States over the sale of its hemophilia drugs t

Tall Oil Rosin Surplus Shrinks, Market FirmsThe U.S. tall oil rosin market strengthened due

McDonnell-Douglas' MD-11 on Wednesday seemed to be the top favorite for replacing the 11 DC-10s on S

Corporate controllers and business planners are more optimistic about the economy, in a turnaround f

EC-Comecon Talks GENEVA - Experts from Western and Eastern Europe met Wednesday for new talk