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True to the promise its maverick chairman, T. Boone Pickens, made last year, Mesa Petroleum Co. is w

Lucidol Increases Prices by 5 percent Lucidol announced a price increase of 5 percent for sv

The Interstate Commerce Commission adopted new rules permitting railroads and other carriers to make

Cessna Aircraft Co., which has spent most of this year cutting back, apparently is proceeding with d

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced plans to change futures settlement procedures, a move aime

Soviet grain imports in the current marketing year could drop to 20 million metric tons, an official

Private Japanese corporations predict their country's sagging economy will recover substantially bet

The United States incurred a record $36.2 billion deficit in its international payments on current a

The Company for Financing Production has put its December estimate of the 1986-87 soybean crop at 15

The Department of Transportation should make electronic recorders mandatory for heavy trucks to kee

Once again Grenada is living up to its name as the Spice Island as its nutmegs have come into demand

The New York Stock Exchange and about 40 other witnesses are testifying before the Securities and Ex

A Southern building slump caused U.S. housing construction to drop 1.8 percent in November, the thir

BASF Wyandotte Corp., the third-largest dye company in the world, is considering the expansion of it

he American Bankers Association announced an agreement to set up a captive insurance company for mem

Officials of XTRA Corp., a transportation equipment leasing company, said they are studying a possib

The Australian sugar industry was disappointed that the U.S. had gone ahead with a 47 percent cut in

Ghana's total cocoa production in 1986-87 may exceed 260,000 metric tons, according to official prod

Poland's Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by shipyard workers in the northern port of Swi

PLAY IT AGAIN: It was 50 years ago this fall that the National Maritime Union was organized by worke

This year's income from Suez Canal transit tolls, Egypt's third-largest source of foreign exchange,

A Japanese firm seeking a bite of the U.S. hamburger market has bought Burger King's Hawaiian franch

Maritime Colleges Sign Exchange AgreementKINGS POINT, N.Y. - The U.S. Merchant Marine Academ

Brazil has signaled to its beleaguered private industry the beginning of long-awaited adjustments of

Looking ahead to Friday's triple witching hour, the stock market fluctuated with in a narrow trading

Italy's health minister has abruptly blocked an auction sale of powdered milk, whipped cream and che

Imperial Chemical Industries PLC, Britain's largest industrial company, said it agreed to sell its o

A proposed regional gasoline tax of 5 cents a gallon, which would be used to fund the Metropolitan T

GENERAL NEWS A researcher said that the harvest of Christmas trees may be too good. Page 2AM

The White House issued a general warning to foreign machine tool exporters that they shouldn't sharp

There is a feeling in the insurance industry that the Reagan administration is considering a less im

The New York Power Authority approved revised allocations of hydroelectric power that it says will e

Newly rechristened Wharf (Holdings) Ltd., flagship of Sir Yue-kong Pao's empire, reports profits are

Ruff A. De Vane, director of administration and finance for the North Carolina State Ports Authority

MINISTRY OF INDUSTRIES, GOVERNMENT OF BANGLADESH INVESTORS' FORUM. Main objective is to promote fore

The economies of South Korean and Taiwan, two of Asia's four dragons, are forecast to grow 8 percent

For Paul A. Volcker, it's getting lonelier at the top of the Federal Reserve. But the Iran a

The inventory of potatoes harvested this fall totaled 204 million hundredweight as of Dec. 1, a 13 p

The U.S. Coast Guard is acquiring 96 new search-rescue helicopters in a $312 million program aimed a

The U.S. dollar moved broadly higher Tuesday in quiet trading. Analysts said the market was