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Small business owners are strongly in favor of price restrictions on insurance companies, a new surv

If you have visions of legally zipping down New Jersey's highways at 65 mph, slow down. Even

Damages From Storm Listed at $40 MillionA southern storm earlier this month caused an estima

Stephen Toth learned about life insurance the hard way. Because his parents' life insurance

May E. Bostwick of Mukilteo, Wash., 101 last month, says she's "too tough to die." And Rhea

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

Salim Lewis, a well-known arbitrageur and former special adviser to the Securities and Exchange Comm

American Re-Insurance Co. celebrated the beginning of its new headquarters in New Jersey Monday in t

The foreign exchange market began the week by dumping dollars and buying yen, but analysts claim the

Institutional buying programs fed the stock market rally Monday, pushing major indexes further into

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

Mitsubishi Branch Sets $1 Billion Note PlanThe New York branch of the Mitsubishi Bank Ltd. M

Monday, March 23, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

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

The Commodity Exchange and the New York Mercantile Exchange have begun exploratory talks on a merger

Japan's sugar imports in the 1986-87 sugar year (October-September) will be set at 1.642 million me

The per capita use of sweeteners made from corn is expected to exceed U.S. sugar consumption in 1987

China Maps Plans To Combat DroughtThe government has held an emergency meeting to consider h

A dramatic fall in coffee prices will cost the already weak economies of Central America hundreds of

Aegon Insurance Group again raised the eyebrows of the tightly knit insurance community in Holland b

Congressional Democrats are trying to forge a trade bill that President Reagan will not veto, said T

An agricultural subsidy war between the United States and the Common Market has devastated Canadian

Latin America faces a possible decline in Inter-American Development Bank credits over the next year

Argentina is close to an agreement with its commercial creditors on reschedul ing $34 billion of its

GENERAL NEWS The Supreme Court will determine the tax status of corporate stock purchases ma

GENERAL NEWS The Supreme Court will determine the tax status of corporate stock purchases ma

The Supreme Court will determine the tax status of corporate stock purchases made for business purpo

American businesses plan to raise investment in plants and equipments by 2 percent, to $383.7 billio

Top Stories Increased exports of services such as tourism have led to "respectable growth" o

The chairman of the House Budget Committee believes new revenues in the fiscal 1988 budget should be

Asia's privatization wave is lapping at Singapore's shores, with recommendation s that could have sw

A Federal Highway Administration proposal that would allow truck fleets to conduct their own safety

Deportation Case WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear an appeal by the

Karl-Heinz Sager had reason to smile. The weather was Chamber of Commerce perfect, and the president

MMC Corp., a Cranford, N.J.-based data-processing company, wants to reduce the tree-killing activiti

The United Nations is working on practical" approaches to tackling the debt re payment problems and

West India Line, which operated in the Caribbean trade, has completed its liquidation with the sale

When genetic engineers walk through a field of strawberries near the Sacramento River delta later th

Diversification and management succession are just two of the big issues Consolidated Rail Corp. mus

France's state-controlled shipping group, Compagnie Generale Maritime, or CGM, managed to trim its o