Coffee prices jumped after a report forecast a drop in Brazil's coffee production.

Although the growth in most of the major industrial countries has stumbled, the report did not forecast a recession for the industrial world as a whole.

The report forecasts the operating rates in the nation's chemical plants will average 81.7 percent of capacity this year, down from 83.4 percent in 1989.

The report forecast a vacancy rate of 13.3 percent by the end of this year.

The report did not forecast a growth rate for 1988, but business executives have estimated it would be around 6 percent.

The report forecasts an annual inflation rate ranging between 2 and 2.5 percent this year compared with 1.4 percent in 1988.

The report forecasts some profound changes, with many regions of the country seeing conditions shift to those of their present-day neighbors to the south.

Several independent reports by market-research firms have forecast that providing extra programs or other data on those new channels could be extremely lucrative.

The report did not forecast what the net result might be at the end of the fiscal year.

The report does not forecast what gold might do from here.