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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind this considerable falloff are many purely economic considerations. The inviting sales opportunities in Europe's new Common Market attracted dollars that might otherwise have gone to Latin America. The U.S. recession had a dampening effect and the world oil glut contributed to a sharp cutback in exploration and a drop in income in the Venezuelan oilfields, the U.S.'s largest single Latin American investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Investment Going Down | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

...October 1958. Automobile installment credit, the largest single category of installment buying, failed to make a gain over the previous month for the first time in two years. In January, department-store sales across the nation suffered a 3% decline from the same month last year, and a 3% falloff from December. The Commerce Department also reported that the rate of spending on new construction in January fell almost 15% below December; the usual seasonal falloff is about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: Cold & Uncomfortable | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

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