TRADE IMPROVES
CHECK TN PRICE FALL FT IS SIGNIFICANT ENTERPRISE REA TVAL Rugby, April 8. A further check to the rate of decline in wholesale prices as measured hv the Board of Trade is shown by* the index number for Afareh. The index is returned at- 63.7—a fal]'of only .3 per cent.' from February. Tilts is the smallest monthly percentage decline recorded by the board since the downward movement began in October, 1929, and follows on the previous smallest fall of .3 per cent, recorded last month. There- has been a fall of 15 per cent, since Afareh of last y*edr. The figures suggest that the downward movement of wholesale prices which has been a marked feature of the world economy crisis may he nearing its end. and that the upward trend, to which economists look for reviving enterprise and stimulating industry, may he wi’tbin sight.
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2401, 10 April 1931, Page 5
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