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Stiffer economic sanctions against South Africa may be imposed at some time in the future by the Nak

Continental Directors Revise Merger TermsContinental Airlines announced that its board of di

NEW RAIL MERGER TALK: Talk in transportation circles is that the Canadian Pacific Railroad is explor

The following are the results of Friday's St. Louis Merchants Exchange call session for barge freigh

Port Group Names SchultzAs PresidentTo the surprise of many in the maritime industry

OPEC Parley in Geneva GENEVA - The 13-member Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries w

Top Stories Legislation before Congress about the insurance industry is likely to dominate d

The three-day dock strike by some 30,000 longshoremen at North Atlantic ports ended Friday when labo

The idea of cable television in Hong Kong has suddenly taken off with six companies scrambling for a

Brazil will more than double beef imports in 1987 from this year's levels to 600,000 metric tons, Br

The Argentine government has informed potential foreign suppliers it has raised the quota for July-D

GENERAL NEWS The Supreme Court opened its new term by placing on its agenda interstate taxat

A bout of nerves over the outcome of this week's meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting

Belcher Oil Co., a subsidiary of The Coastal Corp., announced the acquisition of refining and distri

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

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

3Com Corp. to Move To Larger FacilityMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - 3Com Corp. signed a $6.9 millio

Subsidized U.S. production has been blamed for most of the problems facing the Australian rice indus

Monsanto Co. said it sold its vanillin business to Rhone-Poulenc Inc. Roger F. Sellew, comme

Eastern Airlines is withdrawing three more A300s from its Moonlight Special joint venture with CF Ai

A popular holiday resort area in southeast England, the Isle of Thanet, is set to become a major Eur

The board of Gelco Corp. unanimously rejected a bid led by Coniston Partners, a New York investors'

GENERAL NEWS Philip Morris will sell Seven-Up to a Dallas company. Page 2AThe board of Gel

In the nine months since the Gramm-Rudman balanced-budget act became law, Congress has missed every

Top Stories The Dominican Republic seems "ripe for foreign investment" as U.S. firms see the

Beer drinkers poured into Munich again to happily quaff millions of liters of beer at the famed Okto

Brazil will retain a domestic market reserve law for data processing, and respond in-kind to U.S. tr

General Dynamics has received 17 bids, only one of which has been made public, for its 180-acre Quin

France's financially troubled shipping sector received a major fillip when the government of Prime M

Recent strength in U.S. eastern belt processor bids for soybeans, linked to harvest delays and attra

The Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corp. said it would postpone this month's bond offering.<

The United Steelworkers Union strike, which has tied up the Great Lakes ore carriers of USX, has spr

Oscar Mayer Foods Corp. will permanently close its Beardstown, Ill., hog processing plant April 10 b

Taiwan Soon Will Allow Private Gold ImportsTAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan soon will allow private g

Two days after ignoring a deadline to buy subsidized U.S. grain, the Soviet Union signed a five-year

Nigerian Minister Sees OPEC Raising CeilingNigeria's Oil Minister Rilwanu Lukman was quoted

Analysts said indecisiveness likely will be the hallmark of the stock market over the weeks ahead.

New Penn Motor Express Inc. may be a veritable trucking giant in northern and central Pennsylvania,

The first economic news from September was very bad for the U.S. economy, but the much weaker-than-e

An unequal division of traffic between the port of Vancouver's two container terminals is to receive