Quarterly sales slipped about 4 percent, to $3.03 billion in 1999.

Quarterly sales advanced 4.2 percent, to $3.69 billion, from $3.54 a year ago.

More information on the latest hybrid quarterly sales is available.

The company also reported its fourth consecutive increase in quarterly sales today.

Without the help of currency exchange rates, the company said, quarterly sales would have increased by 7.6 percent.

Quarterly sales rose 18 percent, to $630 million, from $535 million in 1989.

Quarterly sales reached a record $2.45 billion, up 11.5 percent from $2.20 billion last year.

Quarterly sales rose 16.7 percent, to $593 million from $508.3 million.

The Treasury is halfway through its quarterly sales of new debt.

Quarterly sales rose to 1.2 billion reais, or $665.4 million.