Business and Finance
INFLATION WORRIES VAULTED commodity prices to two-year highs, triggering sharp retreats by the bond and stock markets. The commodity gains spanned nearly every raw-material market and led to a near-record one-day advance in a widely watched price barometer.</br></br>Active 30-year Treasury bonds slid about two points. The Dow Jones industrials fell back from a big rally, closing down 15 points, at 2307.30.</br></br>---</br></br>Burlington Industries will offer to buy up to 30% of its common shares for $80 each as part of a proposed restructuring. The move is the textile company's latest defense against a $67-a-share tender offer by Asher Edelman and Dominion Textile.</br></br>---