Short Reports

General Mills Inc., the maker of Cheerios, Wheaties and Lucky Charms, is raising cereal prices an average 2.5 percent. It’s likely grocers will boost the retail price of Big G cereals by a nickel to a dime a box, analysts said.

Boeing Co. on Friday conducted its final flight test to prove its jetliners won’t go haywire when the year 2000 rolls around. “Nothing happened,” said Alan Mulally, president of Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, after he walked down the steps from the brand-new 737-600 twinjet. “Most of the systems on the airplane don’t use a clock.”