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Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

People Express Inc. Tuesday announced a 12 percent pay cut for its full-time employees, and blamed t

The dispute over the Federal Aviation Administration's restrictions against foreign repairs to U.S.

Eastern Airlines turned down a union coalition's request that it delay its merger with Texas Air Co.

Canadian Pacific Air Lines, of Vancouver, may start service to Bangkok within a few months, an airli

Bill Planned to Rescind Transition Tax ReliefThe two senators from Arkansas promised to intr

Marines Plead Guilty To Freight Train TheftsYUCCA VALLEY, Calif. - Eight Marines pleaded gui

St. Louis Refrigerator Car, a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc., began building and repairing r

Ryder System Inc. will gain a larger share of the international aviation after-market through its ac

Tighter delivery demands, a smaller trade deficit and slower business inventory growth should boost

Norfolk Southern intends to forge ahead with plans for improving North American Van Lines and reveal

A representative of the trucking industry said here that "the evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of

NWA Earnings Jumped During Third QuarterST. PAUL, Minn. NWA Inc., parent of Northwest Airli

Because of provisions stripped from the Conrail sale legislation, officials will need to take pains

Mexican Trade Links MEXICO CITY - Mexico will start new negotiations with Brazil and Argenti

It was apparent to those who had been in world trade for any length of time that Sears, Roebuck and

A Commerce Department-sponsored conference to help U.S. companies set up plants in Mexico is pushin

Wrightson Names VPAt US UnitPeter D. Wood rejoined Stewart Smith East Inc., a broker

The productivity of U.S. non-farm businesses rose at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 0.2 percen

Many United States companies are using marketing strategies and performance based on the thinking of

Contracts for construction slipped 6 percent in September, led by a decline in public works projects

The U.S. dollar steadied in quiet trading Wednesday, moving higher against some major foreign curren

"They just didn't do their homework," complained the head equities dealer at one investment bank ang

Medium-sized corporations grew an average of 15 percent over the past year and are projecting a cont

Rampant speculation on rumored takeover-or-restructuring issues highlighted trading Wednesday as the

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

GENERAL NEWSThe slump in public works projects led the decline in construction contracting.

US Pressed on Syria BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Community is asking the United States t

Koch Carbon Inc. of Wichita, Kan., purchased C. Reiss Coal Co., Sheboygan, Wis., a 100-year-old fami

Japan's shipbuilding industry faces more hard times in the next few years, but the outlook should be

Top Stories New tax law is expected to take a big bite out of transportation profits, but th

Houston Lighting & Power Co. is turning the Gulf Coast geology to its advantage with construction of

Before the development of offshore platforms and automated aids to navigation, coasts from Maine to

ICF Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm, has won the first major contract awarded by the

Ship operators, fearing resumption of a lockout that was temporarily lifted Oct. 8, soon may start a

Canada's two major railways are stalking container business to be generated by four Asian car assemb

The new Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. service from the U.S. East Coast to South America appears to be a

The No. 2 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, three new nuclear reactors and new capacity

West Germany's 1986 cocoa imports could be near the 1985 record of 220,000 metric tons after imports

Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. says it is ready to load fuel into the core of its Nine Mile Point unit 2