HRI Group Inc., a newly formed Delaware...

HRI Group Inc., a newly formed Delaware corporation, has become the parent company of Robert Halmi Inc. and Hal Roach Studios. . . . The number of working oil and gas rigs in the United States dropped by 25 this week to total 916, Baker Hughes Inc. reported . . . Commerce Secretary C. William Verity Jr. arrived in Moscow on a mission to boost U.S.-Soviet trade but warned that any increase would depend on improvements in other parts of the superpower relationship.