Excerpt from Monthly Review of Business Statistics, Vol. 12: January, 1937 The major factors Showing the trend of economic conditions moved for the most part into more favourable positions in the last month of the year. A striking gain over November was recorded in wholesale prices, the index moving up 3-2 p.c. The index on the base of 1926 was 79-7 in December compared with 77-2 in the preceding month. Each of the main groups in the classification recorded advances in December, the largest gains being shown in crop products, iron and steel and non-ferrous metals. The movement in common stock prices was uneven in December, several industrial groups showing considerable recession. The index Showed a decline of 2 p.c. From the high level of the preceding month. Common stock prices had moved up sharply from the beginning of September to November resulting in a new high point Since the third quarter of 1930. Capitalized bond yields based upon Dominion issues recovered in December a portion of the decline of preceding months. While the present prices Of Dominion bonds are lower than in August or September, the present position is relatively high. The advance in bank deposits which had been in progress from the middle Of 1934 was continued in December. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.