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The cost of employer-sponsored health care plans leaped 18.6 percent per worker last year after two

Independent petroleum marketers released a survey Tuesday predicting that nearly 27,000 of the natio

Tourists, business travelers and air cargo shippers between Brazil and the United States will have m

President Bush's choice to run the Environmental Protection Agency won Senate praise and criticism T

Cheaper prices for seats at the Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange have aroused

Terry Hanks has about 30 Yugos on the lot of Sundance Chevrolet in Lansing, Mich., and he's wonderin

Clothing importers who for decades have bought most of their merchandise from Hong Kong, Taiwan and

JAPAN CAR EXPORTS DIP BELOW DOMESTIC OUTPUTBooming domestic sales and a shift to overseas pr

TRAVELERS MUST RENEW CALIF. AUTO POLICIESThe California Department of Insurance Tuesday rule

Is Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev really in trouble with Russian conservatives? Andrei S

Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia will debate changing their liability laws this year

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP INC. (New York) - Ernest E. Stempel was named to head this insurer's li

The Port of Marseilles-Fos slipped to third place in the European maritime traffic league last year,

President Bush Tuesday told U.S. Navy seamen and shipyard workers in Norfolk, Va., that he intends "

UMW TO POSTPONE STRIKE AGAINST PITTSTONThe United Mine Workers of America announced Tuesday

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's remarks Tuesday that the U.S. trade deficit could narrow w

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Yellow Freight System Inc.'s fourth quarter earnings rose to $18.8 million, or

BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN & CO. (New York) - Walter W. Grist and W. Perry Welch were appointed senior

Argentina has effectively abandoned its hopes of arranging a standby loan with the International Mon

Eastman-Kodak Co. is negotiating joint venture deals with the Soviet Union, but doesn't expect the t

EUROPEANS STRENGTHEN MIDEAST WHEAT SALESThe European Community continues to push wheat into

A new panel created last week by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange board of governors to review all CM

Strong U.S. computer sales, a weaker dollar and a sharp drop in British oil exports helped the Unite

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Tuesday approved the nominations of Samuel

Pension plan administrators do not have to tender shares of stock under their control merely because

BP America Inc., British Petroleum Co.'s U.S. operating unit, will use a redesigned green and yellow

NEAR-MISSES IN THE AIR FELL SIGNIFICANTLY IN '88Near-midair collisions dropped 33 percent in

ICC SETS CONFERENCE ON TRAILER TRAIN BIDThe Interstate Commerce Commission will hold an open

Shipping lines serving the Mediterranean are warning that the 12-day-old Italian dockworkers' strike

The United States is likely to be the largest single supplier of wheat to China in 1988-89 due to lo

The head traders of Philipp Brothers Inc.'s copper desks in New York and London resigned last week o

The brewing industry is getting ready for a major shake-up of the 239-year- old "tied house" system

Australian Treasurer Paul Keating said Tuesday that theannouncement of a higher-than-expected inflat

Some federal agencies, including the Interstate Commerce Commission, are considering reducing the jo

A group of independent insurance agents have taken their fight to stop banksfrom selling ins

American President Lines Ltd. believes the Federal Maritime Commission shouldallow more time

This Week: New England: Central Maine Power Co., Augusta, Maine Mid-Atlantic: Public Service

IBM RIVALS SEE ESA AVAILABLE AT END OF '89A group of rivals to International Business Machin

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

PERESTROIKA REPORTED AIDING SOVIET ECONOMYDespite empty shelves, long lines and grumbling co