Word: indexation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that prevailed 24 months ago, but they are still very high by historical standards. Inflation, now at an annual rate of less than 4%, could be rekindled if the economy heats up too quickly. Already there are a few scant signs of that. In May, the producer price index, a harbinger of consumer prices, rose .3%, after declining slightly in April and March. Small though it was, it was the highest rise for the index so far this year...
...there lightly chide each other for being perhaps a little too apocalyptic. "Not all is lost," said one observer, "because of weak demand, lack of investments and sales." Mexican companies, he feels, will just have to learn to live without profits for a while. The Bolsa's stock index, which anticipated the crisis last year and sank to 450 points in August after hitting a high of 1450 two years ago, recently rebounded and closed last week at 1087. Nonetheless, many stocks still sell for only two or three times earnings, vs. an average of almost 13 for American...
...currently trumpeting victory in his economic war as inflation has subsided and the unemployment rate has leveled off. But the current respite promises to be only temporary; the Guinness-proportion budget deficits insure that as the jobless rate creeps back down to a respectable level, the consumer price index will once again skyrocket...
Following is a list of the 50 largest companies in the Standard and Poors 500 index. The companies in italics do business in South Africa...
...economy is that consumers, who had been hanging onto their cash, seem to be ready to spend. Consumer confidence, as measured by the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumer Attitudes, is now rising faster than at any other time since the poll began in 1946. The survey index jumped a total of 20% in March and April and is expected to show another hefty gain in May. "We are talking about a surge in consumer confidence that really has not been seen before," said Richard Curtin, the survey director and a guest at last week's meeting. "In fact...