The Investment Company Institute reported that the...

The Investment Company Institute reported that the assets of the nation’s 420 money market mutual funds decreased $1.43 billion to $276.8 billion for the week ended April 6 . . . The sale of the Los Angeles Business Journal and San Diego Business Journal newspapers to a private investor group has been completed . . . U.S. District Judge Barrington Parker reaffirmed an earlier ruling barring Eastern Airlines from leasing its planes to Orion Air and training cargo pilots to keep Eastern flying in the event of a strike.