Bureau of Markets Index Number: Fall in General Level of Prices during May The wholesale price index number at Shanghai for the month of May has now been prepared by the Treasury Department's Bureau of Markets. In announcing the usual statistics, the Commissioner of Markets makes the following comments The general level of prices in shanghai continues to fall, according to our index number for wholesale prices of commodities. Our index number for May is 109.8, as compared with 113.2 last month, and 114.3 at the end of March, This month's decline is, therefore, considerably larger than that of April, the movement being 3.1 per cent., as against 1 per cent. When compared with the corresponding months of 192) and 1920, however, it is still 0.1 per cent. and 1.9 per cent. higher respectively.
Our index numbers since May, 1921, ara given below Miscellaneous
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