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X-3094

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F E DE R A L RE S E R VE B 0 A R D

For release in morning papers,
Thursday, April 14, 1921.
The New York Office (37 Liberty Street) of the Federal Reserve
Board has received a cable from the General Statistical Bureau of France
giving the wholesale and retail price indexes for France for the Month
of Jllarch.

Wholesale prices declined

prices showed a decrease of

6%,

596

during the month whe:-eas retail

according to these compilations.

The

wholesale price index is unweighted and based upon 45 price quotations,
the retail on 13 quotations, weighted according to family consumption.
The latest figures in the following table are subject to revision.

Compiled by General Statistical Bureau of France
(Prices 1901-10 = 100)

1920

March
April
'Way
June
·July
August
Sept.
Oet.
Nov.
Dec.

Ani- :Vege- :Sugar,:
Min- . Tex- . Sun-: :
mal :table :coffee :Foods: erals: tiles: dries:
: foods :foods : and : (20):
:cocoa :
:
:
590~1

616.3
565.8
568.8
590.8
fi:J7. 4

626.6

629.4
612 ·3
fi:J7. 8

619.6
612.8
575.4
480.5
444.4
430.8
494.1
504 .. 8
468.5
431.4

465.4
474.2
449.2
415-3
429.7
423.2
577-1
447 .. 8
4oo.o
376.4

576.9
586.5
546.3
502.8
500.0
500.0
563.6
543.2
512.3
490 .. 9

551.7
6o8 .. o
550.8
513.1
563.0
569.8
561.1
544.1
509.1
462.4

1035 .o
1114.7
983-5
859-3
873.0
862.5
336·3
745.0
597.1
556.3

Raw
All
mate-:
rials:
(25) :

603-0 69~-3 641.0
657.6 753-4 679·2
6Eo.9 707-5 635·9
569.2 E23.1 569-6
550-3 631.3 572.9
576.4 643.2 579·5
~94.o 642.9 6C7 .7
579.6 609.3 580 .. 0
547.8 548.8 532,6
518.6 512 .o 502.6

1921
Jan.
Feb.
March

569.6 400-9 357-1 459·6 4o8. 7 538.7 489.0 478.5 470.0
533·9 380.8 358.6 437.6 365.0 46j. 6 456.o 431.6 434-3
482 .. 2 386.8 388.8 425-3 343.8 438.6 415-8 4ol.1 411.9




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Recomputed with prices in 1913 = 100

•1920

-March
.April

May
June
July
August
Se:pt.

oct.

Nov.
Dee.

: Ani- :Vege- :Sugar,:
: Mini,- : Tex- : Sun- :
: mal :table :eoffee:Foods:erals : tiles: dries:
: foods:foods : and : (20):
..
:
:eoeoa :

500
522
480
482
501
515
531
533
519
515

516
511
480
4oo
370
359
412
421
390
360

439
447
424
392
4o5
399
544
422
377
355

498
506
472
434
432
432
487
469

46'0
507
459
428
46.9
475
468
453

424

483
452
409

334
317
322

337
338
367

1921
Jan.
Feb.

March

(25)

60o

385

884
953
841
734
746
737
715
637
510
475

548
598
601
517
500
524
540
527
498
471

653
614
540
548
558
558
528
476
444

526
502
461
435

397 341
378 305
367 .287

460
398
375

445
415
378

415
374
348

407
376
356

442

424

.Retail Prices in Paris
(Prices July 1914 ... 100)

1920
March
April
May
June
July
August
Sept.
Oct.

Nov.
Dee.

1921
Jan.
Feb.
March




Raw : All
materials

339
358
378
369
373
373
407
42o
426
424
410
382
358

555
588
550
493
496

~01

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