61.   Declines in medicine, energy and transportation systems were offset by gains in other areas, the company said.

62.   Declining interest rates helped boost new home purchases and refinancings in the past quarter, improving the market for securitizations, the company said.

63.   CS First Boston hired Stephen Stonefield from Smith Barney Inc. to head its Asian operations, the company said in an internal memo.

64.   Deregulation of the European life insurance market and the restructuring of welfare laws played a part in the planned deal, the companies said.

65.   Daly still has a pact with Reebok International Ltd. that will expire this year and is being renegotiated, the Stoughton, Massachusetts-based company said.

66.   Diverio said companies that make plain white paper, called uncoated free-sheet, should be among the best-performing companies in the third quarter.

67.   Declining interest rates helped boost new home purchases and refinancings in the past quarter, improving the market for securitizations, the company said in a statement.

68.   Earlier this month Agnew said the company had received several approaches from other companies interested in buying all or part of the company.

69.   Don Iwerks will be the president and interim chief executive officer replacing Charles Goldwater, who resigned effective immediately to pursue other interests, the company said.

70.   Either the union or the company has to give three days written notice before setting new dates, the companies said.