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FMC Corp. announced its Spanish subsidiary, Foret SA, purchased the natural sodium sulfate business

A new ICF Inc. survey of 17 major commercial hazardous waste management firms indicates that hazardo

Damon Biotech Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Damon Corp., announced that the U.S. Patent and T

Exxon Chemical's subsidiary in France, SOCABU, has completed a 30 percent expansion of its Vistalon

Occidental Chemical Corp. announced Thursday a completion schedule for a project to bring back on-st

Cutbacks Prop Up Mercury MarketThe market for mercury is reported to be strengthening becaus

Diamond Shamrock Corp.'s board of directors rejected a $2 billion takeover bid by a group led by Ama

Boise Agrees To Sell UnitTo SonocoBOISE, Idaho - Boise Cascade Corp. and Sonoco Prod

Iraq was still holding OPEC hostage on a new crude production accord late Thursday, after rejecting

December 18, 1986 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gall

Start-up Delayed At Hope Creek PlantLOWER ALLOWAYS CREEK, N.J. - Routine maintenance on a wa

Phoenix Re Corp. said it contributed $24 million to the surplus of its reinsurance operating subsidi

Alberta's oil producers suffered their steepest profit plunge in more than 40 years during the first

Company officials say they may have to liquidate a California subsidiary of Mission Insurance Group

Since coal has replaced oil as Indonesia's primary source of energy, the country has been modernizin

A delegation of officials from the Italian state-run utility Ente Nazionale Energia Elettrica, inclu

Oconee Nuclear Station Removed From ServiceWALHALLA, S.C. - Oconee Nuclear Station Unit 3 wa

John D. DeButts, who led American Telephone & Telegraph Co. when the government launched its antitru

GENERAL NEWSCreating temporary agencies to solve major social and economic problems may prov

Estek, an Eastman Kodak Co. subsidiary which makes equipment for the semiconductor manufacturers, ha

Americans' personal income posted a moderate 0.3 percent gain in November, while personal spending

IU Corp. Promotes3 ExecutivesIU International Corp., which owns Thurston Motor Lines

THERE WAS A TIME, not long ago, when monetary policy was much more mysterious. Divining Fede

In an era when local, state and regional competition to attract new companies appears to be heighten

New car and truck sales among domestic import manufacturers for 1987 will drop about 6 percent from

New claims for state unemployment insurance benefits were made by 371,000 persons during the week en

Talks on the U.S.-Canadian softwood lumber dispute continued despite Canada's rejection of a U.S. pr

Real capital spending by U.S. non-farm businesses in 1987 is expected to rise 0.2 percent from 1986

The United States lags behind Japan, West Germany and Sweden in both economic performance and qualit

GENERAL NEWS Creating temporary agencies to solve major social and economic problems may pro

The Finance Ministry presented a set of proposals to revise a tax system that Europeans contend hamp

The British automaker Austin Rover Group Ltd. and Honda Motor Co. of Japan signed an agreement to jo

Japan is moving toward setting an inflation-adjusted annual economic growth target of about 3.5 perc

Japan plans to propose a 20-year international fundamental science research program of about 1.0 tri

Belgian Steelmaker Reaches Layoff AccordBRUSSELS, Belgium - Cockerill-Sambre, Belgium's larg

Although substantive changes to the 1985 Farm Act could be proposed early in the 100th Congress, rea

Eight months after the worst nuclear reactor accident in history, the Soviet Union is trying to seal

Net cash income for the farm sector could increase from $44 billion this year to between $45 billion

Peruvian exports and earnings from copper and zinc rose during January- Septembe r over the same per

Indian sugar output in the first half of November was 125,000 metric tons, compared with 190,000 met