The size of the U.S. municipal bond market is $2.9 trillion. In some editions Wednesday, a front-page article about the market incorrectly gave the figure as $2.9 billion.
In some editions Wednesday, a photo of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher that accompanied a U.S. News article about the Fed's bond-buying program was incorrectly identified as being of Jeffrey Lacker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei is a former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. A Monday front-page article about a Google Inc. executive's detention in Egypt incorrectly identified the organization as the International Atomic Energy Commission.
Prices for hemlock logs destined for sawmills in the U.S. Northwest jumped 43% to $66 a cubic meter in 2010 from $46 in 2009, compared with an increase to $65 from $62 for southern pine over the same period. A Tuesday Marketplace article about U.S. timber exports to China incorrectly gave the prices in board feet.
Over the past year, the biggest improvement in the U.S. quits rate, a measure of workers voluntarily leaving their jobs, has come from the manufacturing sector. Tuesday's Ahead of the Tape column incorrectly said the biggest improvement was in the construction sector.
In a photograph accompanying a Jan. 20 World News article about U.S. football's growing following in Eastern Europe, Budapest Wolves players were wearing red uniforms, and the Vienna Vikings wore white. The caption incorrectly said the Budapest players were wearing white.
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