The Treasury Department's Bureau of Markets reports that a further advance of the general level of commodity prives is indicate: by our index number for November, which shows an increase of 2.1 Per cent., as compared with that ruling in October. Contributing to this rise were six groups—metals, fuels, industrial materials, sundries, Other food products and text: lies, of which the latter two furnished the greater part of the sum of the reaction. On the declining side were cereals and building materials.
Notwithstanding this upward movement, however, the figure is still 5.6 per cent. below the peak of March. Our monthly numbers since November, 1921, are: given below Last Wed.
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