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The automotive industry spent 18 percent more on television advertising in the first half of this ye

Taiwan will introduce preferential tariffs for trading partners with which it runs heavy trade surpl

Former Canadian Finance Minister Donald Macdonald minimized what seems to be growing opposition on b

Karl Heinz Sager, former deputy chairman of Hapag-Lloyd, is planning to form a new shipping line tha

A heated work rule dispute between the National Railway Labor Conference and the Brotherhood Railway

The return to a limited version of prior approval for commercial insurance rates in New York was unv

The Union Pacific Rail System asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to take another look at its d

Gotaas-Larsen Shipping Corp. plans to build four 145,000 deadweight-ton crude carriers in South Kor

Britain will start selling off its ownership of British Airways early next year, in the wake of the

Hong Kong and South Korea probably will back the United States in its effort to include insurance, b

GENERAL NEWSIndexes of a business study group indicate better U.S. employment, less decline

Delta Terminates Bid For Jet America SharesDelta Air Lines terminated its $18.7 million offe

The Navy's long-awaited study of manpower availability supports the maritime industry's claim that t

Argentina's Agriculture Secretariat confirmed earlier re ports that wheat sowings would fall sharply

Beef cattle producers, disgruntled over the Agriculture Department's whole- herd dairy buy-out progr

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange was informed that on Oct. 9, the United States may impose a counterv

The dry bulk freight market, which is already suffering from reduced demand for steam coal, is likel

New business was slow to emerge in the tanker market Thursday, although in the Persian Gulf brokers

Agricultural experts from nine Southern African nations will meet in Harare later this month to agre

Freight rates on the U.S. Gulf to Japan run continued to hover around $12 a ton, with Dreyfus report

Northern Tankers of Cyprus has agreed to lease four supertankers to Texaco and the Belgian shipping

The Maryland Port Administration wants to take an unprecedented step and involve the state in contra

An Israeli navy patrol intercepted a ship carrying arms and supplies to Lebanon for Yasser Arafat's

Alarmed by its growing trade deficit with Japan, South Korea hasdecided to limit its imports from Ja

Calif. Attorney General Joins Airport LawsuitOAKLAND, Calif. - John Van de Kamp, California

The Port of Portland Commission approved a hurry-up deal in which the port will spend $1 million ren

A former Liberty ship now called the Davy Crockett has completed a project on Puget Sound that was a

The weathered remains of a pirogue, or dugout canoe, thought to have been used in the 1806 explorati

The complaint filed by the U.S. Rice Millers' Association against Japanese rice import restrictions

The government-owned Australian National Line continues to trade profitably, despite fierce competit

The Reagan administration is concerned about physicians leaving their practices and other fallout fr

This is the 30th year that reinsurers have met here to discuss the state of the industry ahead of th

BYRNE AND BAILEY SHARE PLATFORM. The Fall meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissio

Governments regulating offshore insurance companies will view a proposed U.S. tax change as a stab i

Utah to Consider Bid To Ban Cold Beer SalesA proposal to ban sales of cold beer in Utah in a

A U.S. investment banker with long-time experience in Japan called for establishment of a U.S.-Japan

The U.S. dollar struggled to top a six-week high against the deutsche mark Wednesday after a strong

Stocks were spooked by an early "witching hour" and rising interest rates Thursday. The Dow Jones in

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

Thursday, September 11, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanad