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NEW YORK - A relative buying flurry in the insurance industry was reported at the close of last year

State Farm Requests Auto Rate Hike in Pa.HARRISBURG, Pa. - State Farm Mutual Automobile Insu

JANUARY 6-7 - Insurance Crisis Conference - San Francisco - Laventhol & Horwath certified pu

The U.S. General Accounting Office says the impact of the insurance industry's new commercial genera

Because of low world wheat prices, countries that import grain for animal feed are beginning at an i

US Farm Prices Fell 2.4 percent in DecemberThe index of prices received by U.S. farmers for

Salomon Bros. Inc., the New York securities firm, is revising upward its estimate of earnings per sh

An effort by Mexico to upgrade its beef and dairy herds has meant new sales opportunities for U.S. c

Will cattle and hogs be subjected to CAT scanning to see if they're too fat for the consumer market?

From Aztec to high-tech, corn's past is a mystery and its future a challenge. The nutritious

The South and East Africa/U.S.A. Conference announced thaT effective Jan. 1, 1987, member lines will

The European Community's environment commissioner, Stanley Clinton Davis, added his voice to those c

Olsen Sells 2 Vessels, Lays Off 70 EmployeesOSLO, Norway - Seventy employees aboard the Fred

The Massachusetts Port Authority says it completed a year-end, $5.99 millionpurchase of a fo

Resort hotel liability insurance was hard to get before the fire that claimed more than 60 lives in

Union Texas Petroleum reported a crude oil discovery in the Badin area of Southeast Pakistan.

In addition to watching the usual numbers that are grist for their forecasting mill, credit market a

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

The Reagan administration will send its fiscal 1988 budget proposals to Congress today, even though

There is little confidence among European oil traders that the firm trend induced by the Organizatio

Exploration activity on the Norwegian continental shelf fell sharply in 1986. Thirty-seven explorato

A new incentive program for rural electric cooperatives to pay off their low- interest government lo

Rohr Industries Inc. said it will build more than $300 million in components for McDonnell Douglas C

Amoco Passes Through Superfund Act CostsAmoco Oil Co. raised the price of all its refined pr

Britain, although a major European coal producer, remains a net importer of coal, recent figures rel

The announcement this week by officials of Douglas Aircraft Co. that production will begin soon on t

Cessna Aircraft Co.'s Caravan I has been approved by the U.S. Postal Service as the first single-eng

To White House chief of staff Donald Regan, they are businessmen who owe their existence to tax shel

Alaska's economy may be in store for a better New Year, as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting C

McDonnell Douglas Corp.'s newest baby, the wide-bodied MD-11, has scored its third Asian sales succe

THE OUTER LIMITS may be the next stop for economic policy. So far, policy has been traveling

Gerhard Jerry Frey, 76, comptroller for The Journal of Commerce for 27 years, died on New Year's Eve

A nuclear waste disposal technique that could save billions of dollars has been developed at Argonne

Orders to U.S. factories for manufactured goods soared 4.1 percent in November, the biggest increase

The dollar's value against the austral, the new Argentine currency launched with President Raul Alfo

OIL, GAS Western Oil and GasAppoints D. HendersonDoug Henderson was appointed execut

The Reagan administration announced sharply reduced benefits for Taiwan, Brazil, Korea and Mexico un

GENERAL NEWS There will be no one home at Capitol Hill or White House when the fiscal 1988 b

Duty-free status for goods imported under about three dozen different tariff classifications expired

The Internal Revenue Service is proposing the use of credit cards to simplify the process of paying