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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharp decline in the public's spending throughout the U. S. last week caused TIME'S Index of Business Conditions to drop from 98.5 to 95.4. A contributing factor in the Index's third successive decline was evidence of a slight further expansion of inventory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Index Down | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...booklet explaining TIME'S Index and the principles on which it is based, may be obtained by writing the Editor of TIME, TIME & LIFE Building, New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Index Down | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Last week TIME'S Index of Business Conditions was again off a minuscule amount-from 98.8 to 98.5. The public's spending for trade purposes held steady, but spending in big cities was sharply off, due to the lack of financing activity. There was a slight indication of increased borrowing by businessmen for inventory purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Index Down | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...Skinner has evolved a number of formulas for watching this financial ebb & flow as it relates to various factors such as stock prices, bond prices, commodity prices, etc. TIME applies this same method not as a measure of business volume but of business' financial soundness-i.e., an Index of Business Conditions. The resulting Index differs radically from the several specialized indexes Mr. Skinner has developed for his own weekly service to clients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Fortnight ago, TIME'S Index of Business Conditions, having fallen steadily during January, was tidily up. Whether this marked the beginning of a new upward trend remained in doubt last week as the Index showed a slight decline of .4 points-from 99.2 to 98.8. The public's spending was off everywhere except in financial centres, where the North American Co.'s $105,000,000 refunding produced a spurt-which is likely to prove brief since no big capital issues are scheduled for the next few weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Index Down | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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