21.   Merger partners Chase Manhattan and J.P. Morgan have issued a warning about fourth-quarter profits, and increased their estimates for job cuts.

22.   The Internet services company reported second-quarter results in line with expectations and increased estimates for its third-quarter performance.

23.   The estimate had been increased in the light of good prospects for harvests in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Europe, Russia and Ukraine, it said.

24.   The IEA said in its monthly report that it had increased its estimate because European demand was stronger than had been expected.

25.   The IEA said that it had increased its estimate because European demand was stronger than had been expected.

26.   The government had been forced to increase its estimates of the deficit in view of worsening unemployment, the report said.