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Unity Mutual Life Insurance Co. announced a plan to merge with Manhattan Life Insurance Co. to creat

A California man has said in a deposition that a phony purchase offer was thebasis for a $3.1 millio

A Spring Valley man allegedly used a bogus insurance company with international ties to cheat 11 sub

One in five U.S. adults suffers from some type of disability, with trouble walking and lifting thing

An extra currency charge for North American exporters who ship to Japan will stay the same during th

Analysts see clear sailing ahead for the stock market, now that the triple witch ing hour has passed

Belgian tug crews returned to work Friday evening following the settlement of a week-long dispute ov

LEGISLATIVE STRATEGIES: The railroad industry may come up with its own version of regulatory reform

A.N.R. Robinson, the new prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, will have a difficult first year in

Textile importers will have greater supply opportunities in Thailand under that country's plan to pa

Improved financial performance by two struggling truck lines highlights this week's Journal of Comme

A railroad car carrying nuclear wastes to a Washington state dump took a wrong turn and ended up in

ICC Denies Petition To Clarify Cost DataThe Interstate Commerce Commission denied a petition

The Polish Parliament approved a package of economic legislation giving the government power to free

The governments of France, West Germany and Great Britain agreed in principle to hold talks with the

Navistar International Corp. offered 106.3 million common shares at $4.75 a share Friday and the sto

A Guilford Transportation Industries spokesman claims Boston area public transit officials do not ha

Airlines need to guard against subtle efforts to re-regulate the industry, the president of the Air

American Airlines recently completed a sweeping change of its security procedures for international

Southern Air Transport, the all-cargo carrier linked to arms shipments to Iran and Nicaragua, is hop

A Japanese government commission has concluded that improper repairs by the Boeing Co. caused the cr

The fateful crash of a Japan Air Lines jumbo jet over central Japan in August 1985, killing 520 of 5

Bulldozers grunt and jackhammers clatter at rising hotels and shopping malls. Well-dressed workers j

Even if the old argument over grain embargoes doesn't become a national farm issue, it's still there

The U.S. dollar was generally mixed against major foreign currencies Friday as the foreign exchange

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

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

More than 300 unsecured creditors of a local unit of the Deak Perera finance house are being offered

IFC Helps to Establish Bank in HungaryThe International Finance Corp. is helping to establis

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

Friday, Dec. 19, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Moller Names M. LauridsenTo New PostMoller Steamship Co. promoted Mogens Lauridsen t

Malaysia is putting more restrictions on imports, but neighboring Indonesia is relaxing its regulati

Seaboard Marine Ltd., the steamship line/agency that sparked the entry of non-International Longshor

Consumer prices, led by increases in food and new automobile costs, climbed 0.3 percent in November,

Michel Camdessus, the International Monetary Fund's next managing director, will face an array of pr

The federal government recorded a $27 billion budget deficit last month, down substantially from the

MCI Nears Completion Of Fiber-Optic NetworkMCI Communications Corp. said construction will b

Bulldozers grunt and jackhammers clatter at rising hotels and shopping malls. Well-dressed workers j

A wrongful discharge suit was filed against Lockheed Corp. by a computer specialist who claims he wa