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- <title>
- Mar. 27, 1989: Business Notes:The Economy
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 27, 1989 Is Anything Safe?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 75
- Business Notes
- THE ECONOMY
- Pop Go The Prices
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- <p> The economy sent a calming signal last week but abruptly
- followed it with a disturbing one. First the Government said
- the stubborn U.S. trade deficit narrowed in January to $9.5
- billion, for a $1.5 billion decline from December. Economists
- were particularly heartened because imports fell nearly 7%,
- indicating that the economy was cooling off and inflation was
- not getting out of hand.
- </p>
- <p> But the outlook clouded over on Friday, when the Government
- said producer prices soared 1% in February. The jump, which
- showed that such prices have climbed at an alarming 12.6% rate
- so far this year, aroused fears that inflation might be picking
- up just as the economy is slowing down. That warning of possible
- 1970s-style stagflation sent the Dow Jones industrial average
- down 48.57 points Friday, to 2,292.14, its sharpest one-day
- decline in eleven months.
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- </body></article>
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