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An emergency government program to slow inflation and spur growth may not produce the desired short-

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

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

Wed., Dec. 16, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Many barges that dump sewage sludge in the ocean will be equipped sooner than planned with so-called

New York Life Insurance Co. announced Wednesday that it would lower thedollar limits at whic

The McCarran-Ferguson Act antitrust exemption for the insurance industry should be repealed, the cha

AT&T Bell Laboratories announced Wednesday it has built an experimental system that can transmit sig

Defense lawyers in Florida may soon have an alternative to expensive professional liability insuranc

State insurance departments are not getting their fair share of the gravy from what are richer state

McM Corp., a Raleigh-based insurance holding company and parent corporation of Occidental Life Insur

Providing shareholders of Minet Holdings PLC are willing, The St. Paul Cos., of St. Paul, Minn., sta

A key Massachusetts insurance industry official said that anything less than a 10 percent net increa

Consumers Union filed a proposed initiative Tuesday that would establish a state-run automobile insu

Careful shopping for homeowners' insurance can yield large savings, according to a survey by the sta

The U.S. textile industry has recovered somewhat from its 1984-85 recession, an industry leader said

AVIATION Air Canada will resume full operations Friday following the settlement reached with

The National Commission on Drunk Driving in its annual progress report is noting some encouraging si

House and Senate budget negotiators are searching for ways to trim about $370 million in spending fr

Medigap Cover Costs Linked to Age in Md.Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maryland will begin ma

The U.S. steel industry's operating income rose again in the third quarter, the American Iron and St

General Motors Corp. board of directors has given the go-ahead to the company's Saturn program, by a

I hope it's not too outrageous to say the United States and the rest of the free world ought to be c

HONG KONG - Ronald Li, the flamboyant and controversial chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, st

Postmaster General Preston R. Tisch charged Wednesday that federal Budget Director James C. Miller "

This is one state where you can tell your boss what you really think of him and quit. You won't be o

The U.S.-Canada free trade deal has bolstered public support for the ruling Progressive Conservative

US and Canada Reach Agreement on LumberThe United States and Canada reached an agreement Wed

Maersk Line is leaving the door open about whether it will join the westbound rate-setting conferenc

Despite the escalation of attacks on merchant vessels in the Persian Gulf, marine insurers have been

Evergreen International (U.S.A.) Corp. has cast the latest link in an electronic chain that will eve

Another 10 percent depreciation of the dollar against both the Japanese yen and the West German mark

China's imports of electronic components could reach $1 billion in 1990, but the United States may b

Michael S. Dukakis is unusual among the large field of presidential hopefuls in that he has enunciat

Burlington Northern Railroad, which has one of the more innovative marketing departments in the rail

Declining grain production forced China to reverse past practice and import chemical fertilizer heav

Merrill Lynch & Co. said Wednesday it has adopted a stockholder rights plan to thwart "coercive" tak

Automobile salesman Helmut Becker says he had a hard time selling U.S. cars two years ago. But as th

A Pakistani resident of Toronto accused of trying to export metals used in nuclear weapons has denie

Man is cutting timber down all over the world at an alarming rate and that includes British Columbia