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Richard B. Byrne wants insurance agents to break through their prison walls. The California

More than 20 million air bags will be in U.S. cars by the end of model year 1994 and will prevent th

A Federal Reserve Board decision has breathed new life into the so-called South Dakota loophole, inv

U.S. Court of Appeals in Texas overturned lower court rulings that an agent was liable for a custom

The Illinois Supreme Court, setting a sweeping standard, ruled Monday that insurance companies must

The U.S. dollar declined against major foreign currencies Tuesday, and many analysts now suspect the

Stock prices fell sharply Tuesday, with the Dow Jones average of 30 industrials sinking 46.47 points

The approach of another "triple witching hour" Friday is causing little alarm in the stock market.

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

Mexico May Issue Silver-Backed BondsWASHINGTON - The Silver Institute says Mexico is serious

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

Marine Midland Banks Inc. said Tuesday it agreed to a sweetened $756 million buy-out offer from Hong

U.S. industrial production rose a seasonally adjusted 0.3 percent in August after increasing 0.8 per

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

Madeira, a Portuguese island in the Atlantic Ocean, has created a free trade zone and an offshore fi

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has expanded to 91 square miles its quarantine area in Los Angele

The Japanese government has come up with a plan to double the number of Japanese travelers abroad in

Farmstead Telephone Group Inc. signed a letter of intent in China as the first official step toward

Bass Purchases Stake In Holiday Inn ChainBass PLC, a British company famous for its ale, has

In an effort to boost his nation's sagging economy, Austria's minister for economic affairs is looki

Alaska's Governor Seeks Pacts in ChinaAlaska Gov. Steve Cowper Tuesday began a visit to Chin

A delegation from China's Ministry of Aviation Industry arrived in Seattle Tuesday to discuss cooper

South Korea's ruling party leader urged the United States to weigh the strained trade relations betw

David Johnson Joins Gerber as ChairmanFREMONT, Mich. - David W. Johnson, who was president a

Rudolph Oswald, chief economist for the AFL-CIO, finds it ironic that most of the South Korean worke

AIR CARGO Swissair's North American cargo marketing manager fears that mega- forwarders wil

A new study says a proposal to limit U.S. imports of cloth, clothes and shoes could cost U.S. consum

The thousands of small shops across the country that perform tooling and machining for U.S. industry

A British company, European Electronics Systems Ltd., has developed a system to detect and analyze b

Every 25 minutes, on average, a train crosses the land of farmer William Drinkwater. Most of these t

The railroad industry's massive wall of opposition to coal slurry pipelines has been quietly breache

Canada's west coast forest companies are happy that their country's free trade negotiators have been

Former NASA chief James M. Beggs said the United States needs to form a quasi-governmental corporati

P&LE, Union Talks Remain StalematedPITTSBURGH - Negotiations between Pittsburgh and Lake Eri

U.S. coal producers are expected to mine a record 897 million tons this year but the industry is fac

In a year filled with red-letter days for Conrail, Oct. 1 may rank as one of the best for about 92,0

Only six weeks into his tenure, Federal Aviation Administrator Allan McArtor Tuesday previewed an am

He emphasizes that 80 percent of the eastbound North Atlantic cargo traffic carried by Swissair is f

Major airlines operating in the Pacific are mounting a new attack on a 30- year-old agreement with t

Presidential Airways Suffers Quarterly LossPresidential Airways suffered severe losses in it