Three banks ratchet up the prime rate to 20%

Chemical Bank of New York Wednesday raised its prime lending rate, the rate it charges its most creditworthy corporate customers, to 20 percent, from 19 1/2 percent. Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Company and First National Bank of Chicago followed the move.

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