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US Facilities Corp. is proposing to go public and enter the property/casualty reinsurance business w

Stocks declined Tuesday amid concern about weak corporate profits following the Commerce Department'

Tuesday, August 19,1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanadaU.K.

A judge upheld a court order freezing US$25 million in Libyan assets obtained by two Italian compani

The federal agency that underwrites the pensions of 38 million retired workers agreed to take over p

GENERAL NEWSA first-year revenue gain in the tax reform bill might give Congress an excuse t

Sponsor Blasts Defeat of Fishing Insurance BillThe sponsor of federal legislation aimed at r

General Signal Sells S. African OperationsSTAMFORD, Conn. - General Signal Corp. said it sol

Steel production rose to 1.246 million tons in the week ended Aug. 16, an increase of 2.8 percent fr

GENERAL NEWSA first-year revenue gain in the tax reform bill might give Congress an excuse t

Continued deterioration in business investment and in the U.S. trade performance over the last three

The committee of commercial banks overseeing bank credit negotiations with Mexico said they had agre

Lowe Tapped For Top PostAt CanadairDonald C. Lowe will become Canadair's president a

News of the lowest quarterly economic growth figure in the United States in 3 years drove the U.S. d

A first-year gain of $11 billion in the tax reform bill might provide Congress the excuse it needs t

The Shipping Chamber of Greece, the Greek government's principal advisory agency on marine affairs,

Tugboats extinguished a blaze aboard a Norwegian-owned supertanker in one of the biggest marine salv

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

Canadian Wheat Crop Looks Good So FarKANSAS CITY Canadian prairie wheat production this yea

U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, despite their incredible size, are becoming adept at a form of magic.

Seven companies applied recently to the Federal Maritime Commission for licenses to act as independe

Fruehauf Board Weighs Competing BidsA special committee of Fruehauf Corp.'s board of directo

Heavy truck traffic has increased between 40 percent and 50 percent on Interstate 95 since the state

Industry officials are divided over who will pick up the pieces of General Motors Corp.'s market sha

The California Highway Patrol said it found more than 1,000 safety violations when it checked 452 tr

Canadian National Railways said second quarter profit rose to C$59.9 million (US$43.1 million) from

Sihanouk in Jakarta JAKARTA, Indonesia - Prince Norodom Sihanouk, president of the tri-parti

Fears that Brazilian exports would be hurt by booming domestic consumer demand are proving to be unf

Brazil is moving cautiously to adjust overloaded industrial capacity to booming demand, slowly lower

Australia lifted a three-year ban on uranium exports to France, conceding that the sanction didn't w

Major service expansions by United Airlines and Alaska Airlines are forcing the Port of Seattle to s

Australians are getting ready for what has been billed as the toughest national budget in half a cen

Quaker Oats Acquires Maker of Rice-A-RoniSAN LEANDRO, Calif. - Golden Grain Macaroni Co., a

Agreement appears to be nearing in the high-stakes struggle over California's decades-old unitary me

Representatives of the Reagan administration warned that retaliatory measures against Japan may be f

The United States and Japan agreed Tuesday to set up a joint monitoring system to determine whether

and they are expected to do so in coming weeks - Australian farmers undoubtedly will lose export sal

Taiwan will stop buying corn from the United States if corn farmers there continue to support trade

President Reagan's decision to build a $2.8 billion replacement shuttle for Challenger will mean at

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking public comments to help design next year's feed grain