81.   Producer prices were unchanged in the month in both Eastern and Western Germany.

82.   Prices of other goods and services, and transportation and communications prices, were unchanged in November.

83.   Prices were unchanged in both February and May.

84.   Rates on four-year fixed-rate auto loans were unchanged in the past week.

85.   Rate-cut talk was fueled by a report that consumer prices in the Western German state of Bavaria were unchanged in the month to mid-November.

86.   Prices were unchanged in October compared with the previous month.

87.   Sales rose in the Midwest and South but fell in the West and were virtually unchanged in the Northeast, the most sluggish of the four regions.

88.   Retail inventories were unchanged in June and were also revised lower in May, which contributed to the overall weakness in the inventory number.

89.   Shares of St. Louis-based McDonnell Douglas were unchanged in midafternoon.

90.   Separately, the government said German import prices were also unchanged in November.