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Malaysia Forecasts Bullish Rubber MartKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia's rubber market is e

A proposed new sales tax is meeting mounting criticism from Japan's opposition parties and ruling pa

Tower Commission WASHINGTON - President Reagan "did not seem to be aware" of the full conseq

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has increased its reserve base by being the apparent high bidder on 39 prod

International Minerals & Chemical Corp. signed a contract for the acquisition of Pitman-Moore, a maj

Aeroport de Paris, or ADP, the French public authority managing the 14airports in the greate

At least 2,000 Western Airlines employees will be required to move from the carrier's Los Angeles he

After a 10-hour-long meeting with the government Wednesday, leaders of striking truck drivers Thurs

An administration proposal to reduce the Customs Service's personnel will be rejected by the Senate

The Paris economic accord among major industrial nations is more than words and reflects long-term c

The National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. has received a $26.6 million contract to overhaul a Navy ship

All interests with a stake in the survival of the St. Lawrence Seaway must speak out while there is

RJR Nabisco Inc.'s R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. unit realigned the management structure of its worldwid

Gold is expected to average $425 an ounce in 1987, compared with an average of $368 in 1986, Shearso

The Swiss Justice Ministry unveiled a legislative project that would make the ''laundering" of money

Eating the cows that produce the European Community's surplus butter mountain is a solution some mem

James R. Steckel, 50, was named vice president, production of The Journal of Commerce, replacing How

India produces four times as much wheat and almost twice as much rice as it did in the 1960s. But In

A unit of Fluor Corp. was awarded a contract by Union Carbide Corp. The value of the contract was no

NY Utility Converts Units to Burn CoalPOUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. - Central Hudson Gas & Electric Co.

For the week ended Feb. 14, 1987, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equ

Trade union leaders at Devonport Royal Naval Dockyard threatened Wednesday to call a mass walkout by

A coalition of 172 health-care organizations called Monday for allowing Americans to buy Medicaid in

President Reagan may veto the highway funding bill being worked out by congressional conferees becau

Ford Plans to Offer Head Gasket WarrantyFord Motor Co. Will offer an extended warranty for h

The statistics show that container traffic at the port of Gothenburg last year was up over 1985 figu

Late last year, 600 port workers agitating for higher pay threatened containerships docking at Cochi

Japanese Ex-Im Bank Plans U.S. OfferingThe Export-Import Bank of Japan said it plans to sell

Financier Khoo Teck Puat simply doesn't have enough liquid assets to repay debts to National Bank of

The U.S. grain industry needs to keep changing to remain competitive in today's world markets, said

The Rovac Corp. received a study contract from Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., of Chalk River, Canada.

IN THE BLACK: American Motors Corp. said the fourth quarter of 1986 brought the first profit in almo

Mexico and its major creditors sent telexes to international banks detailing Mexico's need for promp

Mikhail Gorbachev called on the Soviet people to work harder, become more efficient, practice self-d

The slide in the value of the U.S. dollar, fierce competition from domestic wine coolers and scandal

Secretary of State George P. Shultz said the United States is urging other countries to impose sanct

Large-scale modernization is planned for India's state-run railroad system, reputedly the world's se

Canada's Coast Guard wants modification of a four-year-old design for a very large icebreaker intend

Congress has begun looking at the thorny problem of how to notify workers they may be exposed to dan

Supplies of gasoline and distillate declined, according to the American Petroleum Institute's latest