91.   The U.S.-owned telecommunications group New Zealand Telecom on Wednesday reported its first profit decline since being sold by the government nearly a decade ago.

92.   Among the numbers published, housing sales posted their first declines in three months in April.

93.   Both the fall in consumer spending -- marking the first decline since November -- and the rise in income were in line with market expectations.

94.   But for small non-manufacturers, confidence actually deteriorated -- the first decline in one year and three months.

95.   The rebound came despite rising mortgage rates that were blamed for the drop in April, the first decline in three months.

96.   This is the first decline in retail inventories since last March.

97.   It was the first decline in four months.

98.   It was the first decline in orders excluding transportation since March.

99.   It was the first decline in the nonpetroleum trade deficit in four years.

100.   It was the first decline since October.