Business Trends
This collection is the print version of Business Trends, a Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland weekly broadcast that covers current economic conditions. The radio transmission, broadcast weekly by various Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland professionals, occurred over the Cleveland, Ohio radio station WGAR.
- Business Review
- Indexes
- 1940s
- October 9, 1948
- October 16, 1948
- Consumer Buying and the Use of Savings and Credit
- Trends in Retails Trade
- Regulation W : Interview of H.E.J. Smith by Jim Martin
- Business Inventories : November 13, 1948
- Business Inventories : November 20, 1948
- Foreign Trade
- Department Store Trade : December 4, 1948
- What Do People Intend to Buy?
- Capital Expenditures by Business
- Department Store Trade : January 8, 1949
- The Decline in Commodity Prices
- Jobs, Wages and Salaries
- Financial Developments and the Business Outlook
- Trends in Construction
- Are Consumers Buying Less?
- The Demand for Housing
- Are the Lay-offs Only Seasonal?
- Financing Home Ownership
- The Trend of Retail Trade
- Government Spending
- Factors Affecting Consumer Prices
- When and Where Did the Recession Actually Start?
- How Far Has the Price Deflation Gone?
- What is Happening to Employment?
- Some Implications of the Rate of Saving
- Is Business History Repeating Itself?
- Have Farmers Stopped Buying?
- Capital Investment of Business
- Recent Improvement in Trade
- Recent Changes in Consumer Durable Goods Industries
- The Downturn in the Durable Goods Industries
- The Cold War Along the Price Front
- The Outlook for Lower Meat Prices
- The Income Trend
- Consumer Buying in 1949
- Looking Ahead to September
- Consumer Incomes and Expenditures
- Retail Trade
- Recent Business Developments
- Recent Employment Trends
- Member Bank Reserves
- A Turning Point in Business?
- Construction and Business Prospects
- The Summer Sag in Department Store Sales
- Why Don't Good Prices Come Down?
- The General Trend of Prices
- Demand for Housing
- Consumer Income and Spending
- Recent Development
- Prospective Changes in Food Prices
- The Impact of Foreign Currency Devaluations
- The Current Business Situation
- Ohio's Dependence on Steel
- What's Behind the Dollar Rumors
- Recent Employment Trends
- 1949 Christmas Trade and the Business Outlook
- Consumers' Ability to Buy
- Some Unfinished Business … For 1950
- Business Expenditures for Plant and Equipment
- Outlook for Food Production
- 1950s
- 1960s
In order to aid in the retrieval of information from this publication, significant tables, charts, and/or articles have been extracted and can be viewed individually or across a span of issues.
When this publication/broadcast debuted, it was titled Business Review. The title was changed to Business Trends November 20, 1948.
Business Trends ceased publication with the December 18, 1965 issue.
1948-1966
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
- Economic Review (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
- Economic Trends (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
- Basic Business News
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Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Research Department. Business Trends. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, 1948-1966. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/6752, accessed on March 7, 2025.