Lear Petroleum Corp. and BP America said...

Lear Petroleum Corp. and BP America said they have entered into a definitive merger agreement, under which holders of Lear common stock would receive $2.65 per share in cash . . . Advest Inc. says it acquired the Washington and Cambridge and Falmouth, Mass., offices of Moseley Securities Corp. . . . The cheapest round-trip fares on American Airlines and Delta Air Lines will increase $10, and similar fares offered by United Airlines also will go up March 2 . . . Kraft agreed to pay AmBrit Inc. $8.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed nearly six years ago over the packaging and labeling of Kraft’s Polar B’ar ice cream product.