deferred delivery

Deferred deliveries rose between 0.50 cent and the permitted daily limit of 1.50 cents.

Deferred deliveries rose 0.05 cent, to 4.5 cents.

Refined petroleum products were mixed, with near-term contracts lower and most deferred deliveries higher.

(Forward sellers contract for deferred delivery, reducing their risk if the price drops.)

He also canceled orders for some planes and deferred delivery on others, and reduced or eliminated discount fares.

Ms. Ganes also noted a widening of the gap between prices for near-term and deferred delivery.

Deferred deliveries rose.

Some A380 launch customers deferred delivery or considered switching to the 747-8 and 777F aircraft.

One reason was that the price rises in the unrestricted spot July contract did not exceed the daily permissible limits posted by the deferred deliveries.

DDs, Deferred Deliveries, aren't customary among Earth people.

But some of the deferred deliveries have been offset by new orders and requests by other customers to accelerate deliveries, Mr. Shrontz said.

Mr. Feltes, the Refco research director, noted that while the nearby livestock and product futures decline, prices for the deferred deliveries were moving up.

The largest gains in hog futures were in the deferred delivery months, reflecting data in the hogs and pigs report issued Tuesday by the Agriculture Department.

In fact, their businesses had been converging, with Federal Express providing less expensive deferred deliveries and RPS providing second-day deliveries.

At the Farnborough Airshow that year, Northwest deferred delivery of sixteen A330s to 1994, following the cancellation of its A340 orders.

As part of supply provisions within the Comecon, Lot was allocated four Il-86s as barter for component manufacture; the airline deferred deliveries which were cancelled by 1987.

But crude oil contracts for deferred delivery months staged less impressive gains, indicating that traders were pessimistic that OPEC would be successful in shoring up prices, analysts said.

The reason: more livestock traders are involved in spreads in which they sell short the nearby contracts and buy the deferred delivery months, when the smaller herds are expected to bring much higher prices.

Rolls-Royce, which supplies engines for Boeing and Airbus, reported a 45 percent decline in first-half pretax profit, as airlines deferred delivery of new planes after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Deferred deliveries rose by lesser amounts, with February ending 1.3 cents higher at $2.137 for 1,000 cubic feet, reflecting continued demand for heating fuel as a result of the cold weather in the Eastern United States.

The United States, China and the Soviet Union all are rumored to be looking for more sugar in the September-through-August crop year, yet Cuba has reportedly asked China to accept deferred delivery of scheduled shipments, analysts said.

But while American officials can claim some successes - Russia appears to have deferred delivery of the S-300 air defense system to Iran - the diplomats' dispatches underscore how often their efforts have been frustrated in trying to choke off trade by Syria and others, including Iran and North Korea.