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...differ because they are figured on different bases. Dun's was started in 1860, is compiled from more than 200 items. The magic base of normality-100%-is not used. Instead, figures expressing a total in which each item is "weighted" according to per capita consumption, allow the index to run where it will. For customers used to the Bradstreet index started in 1892 Dun & Bradstreet also computes the combined per-lb. prices of 96 items. This monthly index was at $6.35 in March 1933, is now at $11.14. The Annalist uses a long list of commodities with...
...Department of Labor's wholesale price index, which is comprised of 784 items ranging from women's union suits to pickled herrings, uses 1926 prices as 100, tends to sluggishness because of its size. Of ten major groupings, foods have the biggest weighting- 20.47% of the aggregate value of the list...
Over long periods these indices reflect the totality of commodity price changes, but they often lag in revealing price trends over periods of less than a year. For daily distribution by the United Press, a more responsive index is compiled by Dun & Bradstreet from the spot prices of 30 basic commodities. This roster of prices (with 1930-32 as 100) was at 68.51 in March 1933, at 129.96 last October, and by last week was up to 144.62. The Associated Press compiles its own index of 35 commodities for its member newspapers. From a depression low of 41.44 (February...
Moody's Investors Service computes an index from 15 spot prices, makes Dec. 31, 1931 equal 100. Last week the Moody figure touched 210, up from 183.6 the day after Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected President last November. Yale's Dr. Irving Fisher has a weekly wholesale price index which last week was at 90.7, up from 84.5 before election...
...plainer boom portent has been seen than the recent upward surge in prices, Moody's commodity index having risen 20% in the past six months. Wheat at $1.25 per bu. last week was at a six-year high, cocoa at 11¼? per Ib. at a seven-year high, rubber at 19? per Ib. at a seven-year-high...