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Built in just 41 days during 1942, the John W. Brown is one of two surviving Liberty ships from the

Attention focused on individual issues in a mixed, uncertain stock market Thursday with many changes

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

A Liberty ship that dodged torpedoes and eluded bombs during World War II has escaped the most dread

The U.S. Atlantic-North Europe Conference plans a general rate increase, effective May 15. T

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

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

A majority of corporations will continue to rely on outside legal firms to handle their litigation w

The chairman of the House Rules Committee warned he will block a House vote on catastrophic health i

A House subcommittee approved a reauthorization of the nuclear insurance coverage under the Price-An

North East Again Defends SolvencyPORTLAND, Maine - North East Insurance Co. is back defendin

Chamber of Commerce Hits Acute-Care PlanThe U.S. Chamber of Commerce criticized Reagan admin

With minimal fanfare, the MidAmerica Commodity Exchange quietly began trading in its new quarters at

Chancellor Helmut Kohl, ending talks with European Community Commissioners, said Thursday that the E

CFTC to Consider Evening TradingThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission will consider this

A London reinsurer didn't seem to buy the Delaware insurance commissioner's unsolicited pitch for bu

GENERAL NEWS Richard G. Darman, top aide to Treasury Secretary James Baker, resigned to take

International Coffee Organization members representing producers of so-called ''other milds" have sc

An Indian tribe living in isolation just south of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, depends on th

Western commercial sources raise strong doubts that the Soviet chemical industry will be able to ach

The Reagan administration's detailed strong objections to the pending Senate trade bill made no appa

The Chicago Board of Trade has been pitching proposals for a multimillion- dolla r trading floor ren

A semiconductor company executive said the industry probably won't recommend which Japanese semicond

International Business Machines Corp. sought to leap ahead of competitors in the personal computer f

India is turning up the heat on Washington in its attempt to buy a supercomputer. The U.S. C

Former U.S. Senator Mark Andrews, R-N.D., formed Andrews Associates Inc., a government relations fir

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco USA said Thursday it sold four of its smoking tobacco brands to John Middleton

April 2, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Conn. Gas Company In Energy VentureBRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Southern Connecticut Gas Co. signed a

Help-wanted advertising rose six points in February, continuing the seesaw pattern of the index for

Shell Canada Ltd. plans a capital and exploration budget of $420 million for 1987, down $160 million

Richard G. Darman, top aide to Treasury Secretary James Baker and a key figure in the administration

Bank of Montreal Bids Brazil Approve SwapBank of Montreal is taking steps to swap $100 milli

Transax/RATES, a division of The Journal of Commerce, has announced the completion and start-up of i

A.T. Massey Coal Co., the nation's ninth largest coal producer, is about to be split in half by its

So low is the estate of nuclear power in the land that it has come to this: A legislative he

The New York Mercantile Exchange will launch trading of options on its heating oil futures contract

The Energy Department has paid $126 million to rescue an Indiana ethanol plant that was unable to ma

Amoco Corp. expects refining and marketing margins will be very good for 1987, although they may not

At a time when Taiwan is under intense pressure to import more from the United States, it has had to