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...management company's analysts foresee a 1985 economic slowdown, bringing lower interest rates and an improved bond market. Cabot said. According, he said Harvard will...
...current recovery has not yet passed its second birthday. Most private forecasters agree that a downturn is not imminent. Said Economist Barry Bosworth of Washington's Brookings Institution: "The private economy is strong enough to ensure that the U.S. will not have a recession soon." Nonetheless, a slowdown in growth is probably inevitable. Many businesses overestimated what their summer sales would be and built up excess inventories. Companies will now moderate their production to get inventories more in line with sales. Data Resources, the Lexington, Mass., consulting firm, predicts that G.N.P growth will slow to a 1% pace...
Wall Street seems convinced, for the moment at least, that the economy is headed for a period of slow, steady growth with low Inflation and declining interest rates. Some economists are not so sure. It may not be clear until 1985 whether the slowdown is the pause that refreshes or the beginning of a new bout of economic sluggishness. -By Charles P. Alexander...
...month Chicago's Beatrice (Tropicana, La Choy) bought Esmark (Swift, Peter Pan) for $2.8 billion. Two weeks ago, Ralston Purina agreed to acquire ITT's Continental Baking division for $475 million. One reason for the takeovers is that business has turned sluggish as a result of the slowdown in U.S. population growth. Thus the easiest way for food companies to grow is to take over other firms. And as the Carnation purchase indicated, cows that are too contented may find themselves on the auction block...
...signs of a fall-off yet. Quite the contrary; auto sales are the highest since 1978, and production of all goods and services in the first half of 1984 rose at the swiftest pace in 34 years. The general outlook for the rest of the year is for a slowdown to a more sustainable rate of growth, accompanied by some further declines in unemployment, which has fallen from 10.8% in December 1982 to 7.5%. Most surprising, there has been no increase in inflation of the type that usually accompanies such a boom. The nation's broadest price index...