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frames- Mercury attributed the loss to rapid prepayments of loans and costs incurred * in * refinancing many house loans this past spring and summer , when [ARG1 interest rates] [rel dipped] *T*-1 .
- [ARG1 Orders for military equipment , household appliances , machinery and other goods expected * to last at least three years] [rel dipped] [ARG2 0.1 %] [ARGM-TMP last month] , to [ARG4-to $ 126.68 billion *U*] , [ARGM-TMP after *-1 leaping 3.9 % in August] , the department said 0 *T*-2 .
- Great Western Financial lost 1 1\/8 to 20 1\/2 on 1.6 million shares , Golden West Financial dropped 1 1\/4 to 28 1\/2 and [ARG1 H.F. Ahmanson] [rel dipped] [ARG2 5\/8] to [ARG4-to 21 1\/4] .
- *-2 Concerned by [rel dipping] [ARG1 demand] for its traditional products , it is moving not only into blonde cigarettes , but also into electronic car-parking payment cards 0 * to be sold *-1 in neighborhood tobacco stores .
- [ARG1 The U.S. unit] [rel dipped] to [ARG4-to a session low against the mark] [ARGM-TMP just after the release of the U.S. consumer price index] .
- [ARG1 Sales] [rel dipped] [ARG2 3.6 %] to [ARG4-to $ 3.92 billion *U*] from [ARG3-from $ 4.07 billion *U*] .
- [ARG1 Corporate profits] [ARGM-MOD may] [ARGM-DIS also] [rel dip] [ARGM-TMP initially] .
- Feedlots fatten cattle for slaughter , so a drop indicates that [ARG1 the production of beef] [ARGM-MOD will] [rel dip] [ARGM-TMP this winter] .
- Delta Air Lines fell 1 7\/8 to 67 7\/8 , USAir Group dropped 3\/4 to 40 1\/4 , [ARG1 Southwest Airlines] [rel dipped] [ARG2 1\/2] to [ARG4-to 25] and Alaska Air Group slid 3\/8 to 24 1\/4 .
- They add that the Fed has allowed [ARG1 the key federal funds interest rate] *-1 to [rel dip] to [ARG4-to about 8 5\/8 %] from [ARG3-from its levels of just below 9 % last week] .
- NCR Corp. reported a 10 % drop in third-quarter net income , *-2 citing intense competition that *T*-1 caused [ARG1 its gross profit margins] to [rel dip] .
- [ARG1 Combined foreign exchange and bond trading profits] [rel dipped] [ARG2 24 % against last year 's third quarter] , to [ARG4-to $ 38.2 million *U*] from [ARG3-from $ 50.5 million *U*] .