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Tax preferences for certain insurance companies will be under fire as Congress faces mounting pressu

Nine states have recently received funds from the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund to dev

Mass. Insurers Face Rate Hike HearingsMassachusetts auto insurers appear to be in for anothe

The California state Insurance Department is advocating changes in the way reinsurers provide financ

Nalco Chemical Unit Acquires Radiant ColorNAPERVILLE, Ill. - Nalco Chemical Co. announced th

The U.S. market for methanol is strengthening, driven mainly by a reduction in capacity and a drop i

Traders in U.K. government bonds complained earlier this week that the London International Financia

California's insurance commissioner opposes sale of additional types of insurance at banks, saying s

Volvo GM Heavy Truck Corp. has an old name, or rather, two of them. The new joint venture th

Grace Ventures Corp., a venture capital subsidiary of W.R. Grace & Co., has invested an estimated $3

IGI Inc. and Rorer Group Inc., signed an agreement to jointly develop and commercialize a broad rang

Some 80 percent of all urban sewage and waste in China is discharged into rivers without any treatme

Representatives of California's cities and counties have dropped their support of a proposed initiat

American Cyanamid Co. has filed a pre-application report with the New Jersey Hazardous Waste Facilit

Two major British insurance companies more than doubled their profits during the first half of 1987.

Representatives of the major industrialized nations are scheduled to complete negotiations in Septem

Hauser Chemical Announces AgreementsBOULDER, Colo. - Hauser Chemical Research Inc. announced

Although Indonesia is steadily producing more coal, it will still rely heavily on imports over the c

Two years after a packed Japan Air Lines jumbo jet crashed into a mountain in history's worst single

The Tennessee Valley Authority will phase out a nuclear contract with General Electric Co. worth nea

Alabama Power Co. ended a hiatus in the spot coal market by issuing a tender for steam coal needed f

Police raided an office of the striking black miners' union Wednesday and arrested 78 members on cha

Yugoslavian Miners Refuse Wage OfferBELGRADE, Yugoslavia - About 400 miners at a brown coal

The dollar was down slightly in thin trading Wednesday, as large bank sell orders undercut the curre

When London securities firms were desperately recruiting staff to man their new high-tech dealing ro

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

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

Singer Engelbert Humperdinck, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's son and 91 other passengers

Intermodal Transportation Assoc., second annual conference and expo, Sept. 8-11, New York Penta Hote

The original partners in a new European computer reservation system - Galileo - have announced a com

The Bank of Japan and the country's Finance Ministry have purchased more than 500 billion yen ($3.3

Manufacturers Joins New York ExchangeManufacturers Hanover became a member of the New York S

U.S. housing completions fell 2.7 percent in June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.572 mill

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

British Airways' proposed takeover of British Caledonian is likely to be the first of many airline m

The Federal Aviation Administration, as it tries to recover from the 1981 air traffic controllers' s

Ruthe Kline, a student of music, is one of the new breed of air traffic controllers staffing airport

Wed., Aug. 12, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

An abnormally large jump in oil imports - possibly triggered by concern over events in the Persian G

Pratt & Whitney Notes 25,000 Engine DeliveriesThe Pratt & Whitney division of United Technol