Also . . .

* J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. agreed to pay a $1-million fine to settle Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that Chase Manhattan Bank committed record-keeping and reporting violations while acting as a transfer agent for corporate and municipal bond issues. Chase neither admitted nor denied the allegations.

* Bankrupt tech magazine Industry Standard sold its subscriber lists and other assets in a court-supervised auction for $1.4 million, to its majority owner, International Data Group, and AOL Time Warner Inc. IDG disclosed that it has no plans to revive the magazine in the U.S.