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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
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...