The company said on Wednesday that it would lift its stake to 54 percent.

That lifted the total recycling rate to 70 percent.

That was the Fed's fourth rate increase of the year and lifted the central bank's target to 4.25 percent.

It lifted the 12-month increase to 3.2 percent, from 2.9 percent at the end of last year, the report showed.

Many major banks lifted the prime to 11 percent from 10 1/2 percent.

The award brings with it the right to lift the stake to 51 percent by 2001.

Treasury prices fell, lifting the yield on the 30-year bond to 6.24 percent from 6.21.

The company's goal is to lift that percentage to roughly 95 percent during the next few years.

Their return to Jordan has lifted the country's unemployment rate from 16 percent of the labor force to 25 percent.

The central bank lifted its benchmark rate by a quarter of a percentage point, to 7.25 percent.