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Thursday, March 26, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Efo, the Swedish coal buyer for 11 municipal utilities, recently bought over a million metric tons o

Trapped in a submerged crane in the Duwamish Waterway for the better part of an hour Wednesday, a ma

Biogen reported that the European Patent Office has granted the company a patent covering certain an

Executives in the distilled spirits industry are urging Congress to find alternative revenue-raising

US May Hike Taxes On Taiwanese ExportsTaiwan's exports to the United States may be assessed

The average price of a domestic-made car will rise to $13,800 by 1995 from 1985's $11,600, and aver

BANKING The British government warned it may expel Japanese banks unless Tokyo opens its mar

The Antitrust Division of the Justice Department can find no basis for the charges that collusion in

A popular congressional proposal to create an international authority topurchase less develo

President Raul Alfonsin still seemed intent on recruiting an opposition Peronist union leader as lab

Increased export demand probably will boost unwrought aluminum output by Australia's six smelters to

Hadson Corp., an Oklahoma oil and gas company, is expected to assume management of the financially a

Britain's minister for aviation, Michael Spicer, said Thursday that pressure being put on government

The chairman of the Senate Budget Committee said he favors spending more for airport projects than p

Thieves using a truck broke into the fashion house of Italian designer Krizia and made off with the

Two foreign trade specialists from Washington, D.C., were appointed to head the new California Europ

A prominent West German political leader says central bank efforts to prop up the dollar are doomed

United States Lines Inc. reportedly has agreed to sell its Hawaii-Guam service to Sea-Land Corp. and

The British government warned it may expel Japanese banks unless Tokyo opens its markets to British

Rep. Dan Rostenkowski said the trade bill approved by his House Ways and Means Committee sends Japan

USING THE STRENGTH of New York state's insolvency fund to market insurance is against the law, but t

Now that it has reached agreement with Portugal on the return of Macao to Chinese sovereignty in 199

Officials of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission reaffirmed their opposition to a merger with t

Investors went crazy over the port of Houston. The Harris County government entity completed

U.K. North Sea oil production "remains on a plateau" and is unlikely to rise in the future, Prime Mi

The Turkish government, reversing a 10-year-old policy designed to avoid confrontation with neighbo

International Minerals & Chemical Corp. announced that the board of directors has approved the expen

On Reform in China: Under no circumstance is it permissible to stifle democracy on the prete

Buyers and designers at France's fall and winter fashion show this week seemed oblivious to the die-

As the Cabinet-level Economic Policy Council met to consider sanctions against alleged dumping of Ja

Fla. FCOJ Processor Announces Price HikeLykes-Pasco Packing Co., Dade City, Fla., raised its

The 49,179-gross-ton Liberian bulk carrier Trave Ore and the 999-gross-ton West German freighter Chr

The International Energy Agency on Wednesday urged West Germany to reduce the heavy subsidies it pay

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

The sale of United States Lines' remaining operations apparently means that what was once the best-k

The state of California, heartened by success at getting some barriers to California agricultural ex

March 26, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

The maritime industry blew it" by supporting the Shipping Act of 1984, a leading transportation exec

A Cherokee-Creek Indian who was penniless and lived in a car while oil and gas was being pumped from