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Show TheSaltLake Tribune BUSINESS Friday, June 2, OnLineStecks Utah OnLine, the electronic supplement to The Salt Lake Tribune,is offering an expanded stock-market service. The service is provided free to Tribune subscribers whose personal computers are equipped with modems.Fordetails on how to get Utah OnLine, see page A-2 of today’s Tribune. READING THE QUOTATIONS What you need to PE Vol know about the New Naune York, American and Dulce nf 36 . o2 NASDAQ exchanges. Name:This is the abbreviation issued for each stock This symbol uses no spaces. If you see a space, it is to set aside a footnote. Q@rootnotes: u- A new 52-week high d- Anew 52-weeklow. g - Dividends or earnings in Canadian money. Stock trades in U.S. dollars. No yield or PE unless stated in US. money. n Ryland 1 New issue inthe past 52 weeks. High-low range begins with thestart of trading and doesnot cover the entire 52-week period s - split or stock dividend of 25 percent or more in the past 52 weeks. The high-low range is adjusted from theold stock. Dividend begins with the dateof split or stock dividend. v- Trading halted on the primary WORLD BRIEFS SBC Com16 7308 43% 1 58% market, ‘pecial payments not designated as regular are identified in the following footnotes. Kmart to Shut Down 72 Troubled Stores DETROIT — Troubled Kmart Corp.will shut down 72 ofits least profitable stores nationwide,cutbacksthat will cost 5,800 jobs. The retail chain’s sales and profits have lagged in recent years partly because its aging stores have been unable to compete with its rivals’ newer branches. The cutbacks announced Thursday follow the closing of 110 stores late last year and early this year as part of a major corporate overhaul. Kmart also relocated, consolidated or closed 120 stores earlier in 1994. U.S.Retailers Show Earnings Increase Business picked up for some of the nation’s biggest store owners during May, as women showed their first real enthusiasm for clothes shopping in sometime. Butoverall results reported by retailers were uneven. Federated Department Stores Ine. said good apparel sales contributed to a better-than-expected month. But Melville Corp.said its results reflected continued weakness in apparel sales at its Marshalls chain. a Also extra or extra. b - Annual rate plus stock dividend. ¢ - Liquidating dividend. e - Declared or paid in preceding 12 months. i - Declared orpaid after stock dividendorsplit-up. j ~ Paid this year, dividend omitted, deferred or no actiontakenat last dividend meeting. k - Declared paid this year, an accumulative issue with dividends in arrears. r - Declared or paid in preceding 12 months, plus stock dividend. t - Paid in stock in preceding 12 months, estimated cash value or ex-dividend or ex-distribution date. x - Ex-dividend or ex-rights. y - Ex-dividend orsales in full. z Sales in full. pf- Preferred. pp - Holder owes instaliment(s) or purchaseprice. rt- Rights. un - Units. wd -When distributed. wi - When issued. wt - Warrants ww With warrants. xw - Without warrants. vj In bankruptcyor receivership or being reorganized under the bankruptcy act, or securities assumed by such companies 149 1 agate “t a0 ©PPE: Price/Earnings ratio. The current market price of a company’s stock expressed as a multiple ofits total per share earnings for the previous 12 months. G@ Vor: Number of shares, in hundreds, that traded hands Breast: Thelast price the stock sold for, or the closing @chg: The change between yesterday's closing price and the previous day's close NYSE Name PE Vol Last Chg | Name PE Vo} play 1 1348 racruz A yeaun 6, 214 25 S21 as —a Archos 1924045 Fe 82 Last Che Name PE Vi 25¥e — v4 Botse 31 30n6 2 = watr 37 4787 20% 8 Bowat pes tost 3 18a BoydGm 33 201 Auto Sales Backing Out of Slowdown? DETROIT — Most major auto makers’ U.S. sales in May lagged behind comparable 1994 levels, but reports suggested they might be starting to pull out of a buyer slowdown that’s dogged the industry all year. Chrysler and Toyota reported selling more cars and light trucks last month than during May 1994. But General Motors, Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Isuzu and Hyundai all reported declines. Ford has yet to report Maysales. SeESe SN Soubhenbs Swathi22 4 9 AT&T Ups Wages In Deal With Labor ilMart 21 20846 WaldnkP 2 WASHINGTON — AT&TCorp. raised its wage offer to 110,000 union employees during contract negotiations but a union spokes- man said that the improvement was “minimal.” Companyand unionnegotiators caucused separately Thursday Jontract negouations turned to wages and other issues Wednesday after a stalemate developed over whether retired workers shouldpayfor part of their health care premiums. Dow Chemical Trials To Go as Scheduled HOUSTON — Breast implant trials against Dow Chemical Co. will proceed this summer as scheduled, a Texas appeals court has ruled The 14th Court of Appeals rejected a request by Dow Chemical, co-owner of breast implant maker Dow Corning Corp., to be temporarily exempted from suits, Plaintiff attorneys say Dow Chemical should be made responsible because it profited from Dow Corning’s breast implant sales and because its facilities were used in early tests onsilicone. 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