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Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, saw earnings fall 33% in the second quarter as profit at its Dow Jones Markets financial information unit continued to slide. The company said overall profit fell to $34.9 million, or 36 cents a share, from $52.0 million, or 54 cents, a year ago. . . . A federal appeals court in Raleigh, N.C., suspended a ruling that would have allowed a generic version of the popular Glaxo Wellcome ulcer medicine Zantac to go on sale today. . . . Members of two unions representing 27,000 General Electric Co. employees have ratified a new three-year contract. . . . Consolidated Papers Inc. said it agreed to buy the Wisconsin operations of Montreal-based Repap Enterprises in a $674-million deal.