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LAS VEGAS — Customer orders for big trucks, now undergoing a dramatic rebound, are likely to plummet in the fall and remain flat well into 2003 once the current rush has spent itself, truck manufacturers told their dealers at a national meeting last week.

Insurers are beginning to offer limited terrorism insurance coverage to U.S. businesses, although industry officials say a federal backup plan under consideration by Congress is still needed to cover catastrophic losses.

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The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that sales of previously owned homes fell 8.3% in April, but remain at a very strong pace.

The winter storm that blew out of the Rocky Mountains in early March left a swath of ice, record snowfall, treacherous driving conditions from Colorado to Michigan and nearly two dozen people dead.

LAS VEGAS — Customer orders for big trucks, now undergoing a dramatic rebound, are likely to plummet in the fall and remain flat well into 2003 once the current rush has spent itself, truck manufacturers told their dealers at a national meeting last week.

U.S. new home sales fell 3.1% in March, the Commerce Department said Wednesday, as it revised higher February numbers..

Orders for durable goods in the United States fell 0.6% in March, the Commerce Department said Wednesday, indicating that the widely discussed recovery in the manufacturing sector may still be in the future.

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