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HANCOCK TO BUY STAKE IN MALAYSIAN INSURERNASSAU, Bahamas - British-American Insurance Co. ha

Wed. Oct. 12, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

UK CONSERVATIVES PLAN PRIVATIZATIONThe U.K.'s ruling Conservative party will pursue the priv

Donald Trump has bought the profitable Eastern Airlines shuttle from Texas Air Corp. for $365 millio

The Greek government will seek advice from the International Monetary Fund on dealing with its budge

Hong Kong is gaining a reputation among psychiatrists as one of the most stressful cities in the wor

Prudential Capital Corp., a merchant banking subsidiary of Prudential Insurance Co., said it purchas

The Supreme Court Tuesday rejected industry challenges to federal environmental rules governing the

SINGER LAWSUIT NAMES NORTHWEST AIRLINES INC.STAMFORD, Conn. - The Singer Co. said Tuesday th

DIGITAL AIDS COST HIKE BY ENDING WARRANTYMAYNARD, Mass. - Digital Equipment Corp., which has

A panel of military leaders here urged the maritime industry and the public to join in the fight to

PERRY FILLS SLOT ON NC PORTS BOARDGov. James G. Martin named Ron Perry of Lowe's Cos. Inc. t

Two maritime tax exemption provisions in the huge technical corrections tax bill likely will survive

As many as 2,000 laid off workers in three states will receive their unemployment compensation benef

The next president could very well be forced to preside over a sharp decline in U.S. living standard

Nearly 60 percent of the more than 873,000 adult Pennsylvanians who lack health insurance are employ

Potential candidates for U.S. agriculture secretary in the next administration range from a former W

The United States will remain the world's dominant economy for the foreseeable future, a new study s

Gasoline supplies declined and distillate inventories increased moderately, according to the latest

AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO. (Columbus, Ohio) - James J. Markowsky was elected senior vice president

A final decision on a new airport will be made next year as traffic approaches saturation point, the

Picketing at Baltimore's new container rail terminal has stopped, at least for the moment. A

The Federal Maritime Commission has urged the U.S. Court of Appeals here to reject an appeal by A/S

Michigan's employment picture remained fairly stable in August, with the seasonally adjusted unemplo

Great Lakes ports are divided over what some port directors claim is an illegal diversion of PL-480

The largest petrochemical complex in Taiwan has been brought to a standstill by mass protests staged

The U.S. dollar is likely to fall further against the Japanese yen, William Seidman, chairman of the

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

There were some rather unusual developments at the 22nd annual Georgia Foreign Trade Conference last

Coal mines opened on West Virginia tracts recently acquired by Norfolk Southern Corp. are putting th

The Boeing Co. isn't going to be able to deliver the first 20 of its latest model of its 747 jumbo a

The Maritime Administration has awarded a $19,847,786 contract to Bay Shipbuilding Corp., Sturgeon B

The first Tennessee trade mission to the Soviet Union is finding the hard currency problem its bigge

A.M. Best Co. is expected to boost its bottom line by about $1 million next year when it starts char

A big merger is in the works. For executives at Bowne & Co., a financial printer in New York, that u

SOVIET CREDIT PACT TO BE SIGNED MONDAYFRANKFURT, West Germany - A consortium of West German

GUANGZHOU FAIR EXPECTS 38,000 TRADERSGUANGZHOU, China - Guangzhou is expecting 38,000 trader

The failure of Congress to agree on revisions to the Clean Air Act leaves more than a hundred pollut

The U.S. national debt is big, says Warren Dennis. How big is it?So big that if you tried to

The dramatic growth in electronic mail and its applications will be discussed by more than 40 indust