1.   Consumer and mortgage rates rose, curtailing sales of cars and homes.

2.   In addition, warm weather in September and October curtailed sales of fall merchandise, J.P. Morgan Securities analyst Maura Hunter Byrne said in a report.

3.   Philippine Airlines Inc. said it canceled plans to buy four jumbo jets from Boeing Co., underscoring how deteriorating economic prospects in Asia will curtail sales for U.S. companies.

4.   State Farm and Allstate have sharply curtailed sales of new policies in Florida and Nationwide Financial Services Inc. has done the same all along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.

5.   The agreement includes programs to help people stop smoking, curtail sales to teenagers and federal regulation of tobacco.

6.   The industry also faces proposed new limits on advertising and measures to curtail tobacco sales to young people.

7.   The new Socialist-led coalition had campaigned on promises to curtail the sale of state assets.

8.   The proposals themselves are modest, involving only new limits on tobacco advertising and measures to curtail sales to young people.

9.   Tobacco companies are already operating under a series of restrictions meant to curtail sales to minors, said Mark Berlind, senior assistant general counsel for Philip Morris.

10.   Fears that the spread of foot-and-mouth in Europe and Argentina could curtail soymeal sales touched off the big decline.