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Hong Kong banks probably won't impose any punitive negative interest rates as a means to ward off sp

U.S. consumers took on $2.2 billion more in consumer installment credit than they paid off in Novemb

AVIATION The president of the Air Transport Association says Congress shortchanged the airli

In expanding economic relations with China, South Korea should initially stress technical transfers

Julian Lee, a public relations executive and former Journal of Commerce staffer, died this week.

The pollution liability coverage for Ashland Oil Inc. will probably still hold up despite the oil co

Insurance agents are waiting and hoping for the introduction of a new banking bill that will counter

The United States' ambitious program of planetary exploration, already years behind schedule and mil

Brazilian debt renegotiation talks resume in New York next week under President Jose Sarney's fourth

J. Pope to Fly 'Friendly Skies'Instead of AMRJohn C. Pope was named chief financial

Merger and acquisition pros, who last year worried about the impact of tax reform, vow they'll survi

There's nothing like a tropical vacation in the dead of winter. It helps keep life's natural rhythms

Like a boxer shrugging off a punch to the midsection, the economy absorbed the stock market crash of

A Greek hotel manager received a $52,000 check Monday because he took out insurance against rain fal

A group of Roman Catholic hospitals bought an insurance company to provide malpractice insurance for

A Morton Grove, Ill., drug manufacturer Friday could not explain why one of its cough syrup bottles

P.R. Marketing Must Defend TacticsThe Department of Insurance has ordered P.R. Marketing Ins

Security Trust Life Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Southlife Holding Co. here, has sold its Texas ho

A major municipal bond insurer is optimistic about the industry's fortunes in 1988 despite the uncer

After studying the Florida insurance system, a task force has found that rate regulation in Florida

This week's coordinated intervention in exchange markets by major central banks was aimed at correc

The U.S. dollar rose again Wednesday after a "bear squeeze" sent it tumbling more than 2 percent aga

Soviet Bank Move Reflects Currency NeedMOSCOW - The decision by a Soviet bank to take out a

Dealers in U.S. Treasury securities said foreign central banks have shown an unusual willingness to

President Reagan Wednesday signed into law a bill designed to rescue the financially crippled Farm C

Economist Mailson Ferreira da Nobrega, who was named Brazil's new finance minister Tuesday, promised

Steel production rose to 1.747 million tons in the week ended Jan. 2, an increase of 3.7 percent fro

Two events stand out in the foreign exchange market's 1988 debut, market observers say - the size an

Officials from the International Monetary Fund arrived in Argentina Wednesday amid hopes the governm

Canadians to Discuss Liquor Law DisputeFederal and provincial trade officials meet here Frid

Fears that agriculture will be the focus of trade conflict between the United States and the Europea

From second-hand U.S. telephones to state-of-the-art satellite dishes, China is rushing to greet the

Analysts at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are trying to translate into workable policy last-min

On the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement: The agreement provides an incentive for imports fro

A shippers association of U.S. apparel importers and retailers has begun talks with ocean carriers o

Some 40 Finns working in coffee fields near Matagalpa, Nicaragua, are among 600 foreign volunteers w

Two firms in Austria, Hoechst AG and Leitl-Werke KG, have come up with a new laminated material that

The steam seems to have gone out of South Korea's two free export zones, as they are called, with a

U.S. Deputy Trade Representative Michael Smith Wednesday rejected Japanese requests to lift remainin

Singapore Fears Rise In Business CostsSingapore's business leaders are warning against steep