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Companies Increase Postings for WTIAmoco Oil Co. raised its posted buying price for West Tex

Taxi fares rose 45 percent in Mexico City in the first ripple from the recent increase of up to 48 p

UNITED STATES THAILAND - $10 million from the U.S. government's Export-Import Bank for Bangk

In what could prove a blow to those hoping to attract a mall and amusement park to Niagara Falls, N.

Economic problems piling up over the years have begun to cloud Hungary's image as the consumer parad

A former Cuban official says Havana and Moscow disagree strongly over how to deal with the Caribbean

A finance bill proposal for 1987 presented by the government forecast the first Danish state budget

Brazil recorded a July trade surplus of $1,013 million, its lowest since February as agricultural an

The United States is helping the Soviets gain influence in the South Pacific by giving insignificant

Catalog sales increased 10 percent when advertised items carried a "Made in U.S.A." logo, compared w

Japan should overhaul its economic structure to put it more in tune with the global economy, a gover

The U.S. dollar inched higher Friday in trading that was extremely lightbecause much of Euro

Japanese wholesale prices dropped 10.7 percent in July from a year before, reflecting cheaper import

A direct 24-hour telephone hot line connecting civil air traffic controllers in Anchorage, Alaska, T

Rising oil prices and prospects for lower interest rates could provide the proper environment for th

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

Friday, August 15,1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanadaU.K.G

Congress Begins Recess WASHINGTON - Official government business in the nation's capital is

For month after month the Agriculture Department has published figures showing gloomy prospects for

The International Monetary Fund formally declared Peru ineligible for further IMF loans until Peru s

FINANCIALThe credit markets expect another Federal Reserve discount rate cut in September, b

Sea-Land Corp. had a loss of about $49 million in the second quarter of 1986, compared with net inco

Contract talks between the New York and Boston shipping associations and the International Longshore

Volvo GM Heavy Truck Corp., the new joint venture of General Motors Corp. and VolvoTruck Corp. of Sw

A volunteer church bookkeeper confessed to a priest that she had embezzled $28,000 from the church.

Credit market analysts are growing more and more certain that the Federal Reserve Board will cut the

Crop analysts are predicting a record western Canadian grain harvest this fall. It will occu

Port officials began totaling costs of their wildcat-caging subcontractafter completion of the work.

Negotiations among the marine underwriters of Lloyd's of London to agree on war-risk premiums for ve

The Justice Department asked U.S. District Court here to dismiss a challenge by the National Maritim

The Royal Nedlloyd Group reported earnings of 21.7 million guilders ($6.3 million) for the first six

A group of 10 active and retired members of the International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pil

Lumber Output Rises As Orders DeclinePORTLAND, Ore. - Lumber production increased, but order

All-water shipping services from Asia to the U.S. East Coast will find it increasingly difficult to

Andean Line Inc., a newly formed liner operation, is starting a 21-day service between Europe, the U

The Port of Seattle has scrapped plans for widening and deepening Duwamish Waterway to develop the c

A Philadelphia public relations executive has faulted the increasingly criticized insurance industry

Union Mutual Life Insurance Co. policyholders will vote in late October on a plan to convert the fir

Japan should overhaul its economic structure to put it more in tune with the global economy, a gover

Exporters of computer software from India will receive all tax benefits applicable to other exports