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...nation's long war of attrition against inflation has proved as intractable as the war in Viet Nam. Last week the rise in the consumer price index for May came out at an annual rate of 6%, the same as April and roughly the plateau on which it has been stuck since the start of the year. But steel prices, which had risen steadily, began to level off, and the price of consumer services began to soften a little. Most principal indicators continued to show bad news. Interest rates remained high. The national unemployment rare reached 5% last month...
...Heath plunged into the task of forming his government, much of Britain and a good part of the outside world celebrated his victory. On the strength of his election, the British stock market made its largest one-day surge on record?a rise of 23.8 on the Financial Times index. The value of the pound climbed sharply. Congratulations flooded into No. 10. The Western Europeans were optimistic because they believed that Heath would press harder to bring Britain into the Common Market. The Australians were delighted because he had pledged that he would retain a defense force east of Suez...
...time in the 18-year history of the survey. During April and May, for example, the proportion of families intending to purchase new cars was 20% below the same period a year ago. Based on consumers' personal financial expectations and buying plans, the survey's index has been dropping steadily since President Nixon's first full month in office. It went down from 78.1 in this year's first quarter to 75.4 in the second. Because the findings have always led the changes in the economy by at least one quarter, the survey takers predict that...
...Although now it is deepening. The industrial production index fell .8% in May, its biggest drop since November; it has gone down in eight of the last ten months...
...their staffs without announcement, and young men are leaving the Street to look for more secure jobs. Several firms are trying to save money by subletting some of the space in their new, more expensive quarters. The price of a seat on the exchange, which is a sensitive index of the profitability of the brokerage business, has fallen to $170,000 from a high of $515,000 one year...