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The U.S. dollar rose Wednesday as major U.S. banks raised their prime rate to 7.75 percent from 7.5

GENERAL NEWS Few, if any, sparks are likely to fly when President Reagan and Prime Minister

The Senate appeared to be moving toward overriding President Reagan's veto of an $88 billion highway

U.S. construction spending rose 1 percent in February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $378.4

Prospects for banking legislation in this Congress improved with a House Banking Committee decision

Treaties Proposed WASHINGTON - The Soviet Union has approached a number of West European cou

GENERAL NEWS Few, if any, sparks are likely to fly when President Reagan and Prime Minister

The House Budget Committee adopted, on a straight party-line vote, a fiscal 1988 spending plan that

The porcupine caribous don't know it, but they're at the center of an oil and gas exploration contro

The House Merchant Marine & Fisheries Committee is expected to approve three maritime bills today,

In December 1985, Warner-Lambert Co. looked as if it were flat on its back. The $3.1 billion

Few, if any, sparks are likely to fly when President Reagan and Prime Minister Mulroney of Canada ge

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

Stock prices rose on a late round of buying in the blue chips Wednesday, despite news of the first i

A bid by the Philippines to pay interest on its debt with shares in its companies rather than with d

Wednesday, April 1, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Greg Morris is a hard man to reach these days. As the president of a new shipper-trucker gro

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

Farmers plan to cut back sharply on corn plantings this spring, reflecting overloaded world granarie

The Chicago Board of Trade announced its municipal bond futures contract set a volume record Monday

An Agriculture Department report shows that farmers, on the aver age, in March got about the same pr

Deak International moved Wednesday into wholesale trading of precious and nonferrous metals in both

Malaysia Reports Drop In 1986 Tin ProductionKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia's 1986 tin pro

Canadian all-wheat ending stocks in the 1987-88 (August-July) crop year are expected to total 17.118

Both houses of the state legislature have agreed to pass a bill to allow for re-allocation of New Y

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is considering extending the number of listed Eurodollar futures con

April 1, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

As Venezuelan officials tell it, it's almost incidental that this nation has become the biggest oil

Drawdowns in stocks and slightly lower refinery runs reported by the American Pe troleum Institute w

Nigeria's President Ibrahim Babangida has approved a 10,000-barrel-a-day loan of crude oil to Ecuado

Kuwait added 389 gas stations to its fast-growing European retail network with the acquisition of Br

Water rushed into a $1 billion crude oil pipeline in a test of the line that stretches 1,225 miles

An independent-minded vice president of the International Organization of Masters, Mates, and Pilots

Supplies of distillate oil and gasoline declined, according to the American Petroleum Institute's l

Egyptian Crude Prices To Hold Through AprilEgypt's crude oil prices are to remain unchanged

In the late 1970s, Frank Overlaet had an idea: a select, worldwide association of reputable ship age

The much-anticipated acquisition of Korea Shipping Corp. by the Hanjin Group of Seoul appears to be

The Montauk Lighthouse has gone modern. The three Coast Guard officials who used to man the

The new executive director of the Port Everglades Authority evidently feels comfortable in his posit