1.   Ameritech and other regional telephone stocks surged after a federal appeals court extended a freeze on pricing rules designed to increase competition in local phone markets.

2.   Barr downplayed the possibility that GTE would accept FCC pricing rules struck down by a federal appeals court in July.

3.   A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down Federal Communications Commission pricing rules for telephone companies intended to foster competition in local communications markets.

4.   A U.S. federal appeals court threw out contentious federal pricing rules designed to open local phone markets to competition, handing a victory to the regional local phone companies.

5.   But the commission has apparently decided not to extend tough international pricing rules it adopted in August to foreign carriers who resell services from other telephone companies.

6.   Fidelity and other fund companies say the new pricing rules are necessary because smaller accounts are more expensive to maintain than larger ones.

7.   In addition, the U.K. draft backs away from previous oral commitments to be flexible on pricing rules, the U.S. negotiator said.

8.   Kennard declined to comment on whether the commission would vote Tuesday on extending the August pricing rules.

9.   Late yesterday, A U.S. federal appeals court continued a freeze on contentious new federal pricing rules designed to open local phone markets to competition.

10.   Some publishers have quietly spoken to each other and consulted their antitrust lawyers about whether they can somehow challenge the unwritten pricing rules of the newsprint market.