Beverly Hills-based Gibraltar Financial Corp. said it...

Beverly Hills-based Gibraltar Financial Corp. said it has agreed to buy First Federal Savings & Loan Assn. of Ridgecrest . . . Ford Motor Co. has broken off a preliminary agreement to acquire Allstate Insurance Co.’s PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. in San Francisco . . . Oak Brook, Ill.-based Spiegel Inc., a mail-order retailer, has filed with the SEC for a proposed initial public offering of 6 million common shares.