Va. Jobless Rate Falls To 6 Pet. in February
m The stateÛªs unemployment rate dropped to 6 percent in February, while the national rate rose 0.5 percent to 7.8 percent, the Virginia Employment Commission reported yesterday.</br></br>VEC analyst William Mezger predicted a drop to 5.7 percent in March as seasonal employment starts to crank up.</br></br>Some 51,000 were drawing jobless benefits, up from JanuaryÛªs 50,000 but well below the 55,000 in February.</br></br>ÐÊ	Despite a continually diminishing share of the car market, Renault managed to narrow its 1985 losses to about $1.56 billion from about $1.79 billion a year earlier, the company said yesterday.</br></br>FranceÛªs state-owned auto group said the improvement largely reflects a dip in one-time restructuring charges to $490 million from $642 million in 1984. But its main automobile activities continued to generate heavy losses last year under the burden of weak new car demand and stiff competition.