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The United States will experience moderate but steady economic growth in 1987, but consumers probabl

Economic Reports WASHINGTON - The government releases the Consumer Price Index for October T

Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corp.'s $914 million write-off is a business management decision every oth

Top Stories The Reagan administration is counting on a significant reduction in the trade de

McLean Industries' stock closed Friday at $1.875, down $1 in the wake of news that the company lost

Japan Tobacco Inc., smoldering for several months over the prospect of having to pay more this year

The earnings recovery in the U.S. insurance market may have taken place too rapidly for the improvem

Purolator Courier Corp.'s announcement that it was discussing the sale of its courier operations as

The drive for freer airline competition in Western Europe is emerging as a key test of the Common M

The only effect of the Ivan Boesky insider trading scandal on the credit markets was a temporary bli

Ruling Expected Today On Eastern Airline SaleA U.S. district court judge was expected to rul

INSIDER TRADING: The Ivan Boesky insider trading case was fresh in everyone's mind when Richard Ferr

The union representing Flying Tiger Line's pilots said its door is "still open" for negotiations, bu

Wilderness guide Roger Rom and oil executive Harold Heinze agree on this much: The Arctic National W

The EC's announcement of a subsidy on maize imports into Spain is designed to encourage purchases fr

Rafael Quesada spent nine years at sea and saw his share of bad storms, including one off the East C

Seminar to Weigh Impact of Ship ActAn all-day seminar on the impact of the 1984 Shipping Act

The West Coast/Middle East and West Africa Rate Agreement will implement a general rate increase on

Lisbon is engaged in a bold gamble to become a major container transshipment and merchandise distrib

NO EARS IN WASHINGTON: Great Lakes port officials are upset that their views aren't being heard in W

Smoking Report Urges Ban on Sales to MinorsVirtually all smokers took up the habit as teen-a

The Federal Maritime Commission at its next regular meeting Tuesday, Nov. 25, will consider the foll

Matson Navigation Co. added its objections to the many already made to proposed changes in the secre

The British government intends to pass a consumer protection law by next spring that will introduce

New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority is proposing legislation that would allow it to set

Senate Democrats may make the insurance industry itself, not tort reform, a primary investigative ta

The Chinese are shooting their way into the space business with a solid fueled rocket - "The Long Ma

Empire-Allcity Income Rose to $5.9 MillionNEW YORK Empire-Allcity Insurance Group operating

The Transportation Department Tuesday will publish in the Federal Register a proposed rule extending

Leadership of the American Insurance Association is reassessing whether to continue major financial

The U.S. dollar moved higher Friday on a rumor - later denied - that Treasury Secretary James Baker

Signs are growing here and in other rural areas that a five-year slide in the farm economy is slowin

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

The stock market had the stuffing knocked out of it early last week, but came strutting right back.

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

General Motors' Debt Downgraded by S&PStandard & Poor's lowered the ratings of General Motor

China is to introduce new regulations allowing joint ventures to earn foreign exchange by selling pr

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

A California company is the apparent low bidder for the job of building what could be the nation's f

Friday, Nov. 21, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada