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Researchers are fertilizing Lake Mead in hopes of helping anglers harvest a bigger crop of bass.

The European Community's top trade official said was optimistic that next week's 92-nation trade con

Companies keep cutting investment plans, and many analysts expect that pattern to continue.

Brazilian President Jose Sarney said Brazil must substantially reduce its debt payments to boost its

GENERAL NEWSConsumer confidence hit a three-year low in August as the number describing curr

This is the 30th year that reinsurers have met here to discuss the state of the industry ahead of th

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

National Cargo Workshop and Seminar. Sponsored by the Maryland Port Administration and the U.S. Mari

Decline Forecast In EC Grain CropsBRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Community grains crop is

Olivetti to Manufacture AT&T System in ItalyMORRISTOWN, N.J. - American Telephone & Telegrap

Taiwan will introduce preferential tariffs for trading partners with which it runs heavy trade surpl

Gunmen suspected of belonging to the Polisario Front fired machine guns and mortars Thursday at a Sp

Daniel International Corp., a subsidiary of Fluor Corp., announced that it was awarded a contract fr

Conversion Industries Inc. completed acquisitions of Western Hydropower Inc., Shawmut Engineering In

Strikes Hit Brazil SAO PAULO, Brazil - Hundreds of thousands of Brazilian bank workers, dema

For 44 years, Le Restaurant de la Tour Eiffel served the likes of de Gaulle, Bardot, Picasso, Chapli

The International Finance Corp., a World Bank affiliate, is discussing with the Mexican government a

Stock Market Plunges NEW YORK - Stocks plunged Thursday as Wall Street was spooked by an ear

Freight rates on the U.S. Gulf to Japan run continued to hover around $12 a ton, with Dreyfus report

Northern Tankers of Cyprus has agreed to lease four supertankers to Texaco and the Belgian shipping

An Israeli navy patrol intercepted a ship carrying arms and supplies to Lebanon for Yasser Arafat's

Alarmed by its growing trade deficit with Japan, South Korea hasdecided to limit its imports from Ja

To one degree or another, Washington, D.C., is a company town. More than a third of the work force i

For the week ended Aug. 30, 1986, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equ

News from the third day of the International Freight Industry Conference in London: U.S. ope

The following table lists the spot coal contracts signed between the Tennessee Valley Authority and

The Soviet Union may place orders for new ships with Western countries as it embarks on a major flee

The shrinking oil revenues of the wealthy Middle East have caused a reduction of aid for the world's

A dozen new power stations are to be built by the South Korean government over the next 10 years, wh

Leaders of the European Community are returning from their summer break this week to face an agenda

Citizens Resources Corp. received a letter of credit for a "garden variety" oil purchase financing d

Portugal will be mum on its opposition to agricultural subsidies if the European Community has to de

Black African Summit BLANTYRE, Malawi - Four black African leaders met for a mini-summit tha

GENERAL NEWSIndexes of a business study group indicate better U.S. employment, less decline

Consumer confidence hit a three-year low last month, with an increase in the number of surveyed cons

The automotive industry spent 18 percent more on television advertising in the first half of this ye

A heated work rule dispute between the National Railway Labor Conference and the Brotherhood Railway

New business was slow to emerge in the tanker market Thursday, although in the Persian Gulf brokers

Agricultural experts from nine Southern African nations will meet in Harare later this month to agre

Calif. Attorney General Joins Airport LawsuitOAKLAND, Calif. - John Van de Kamp, California