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To: Lee who wrote (26900)	6/8/1999 12:25:00 PM
From: Lee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

Economic Data for Tuesday, June 8th, 1999 Q1 Productivity = +3.5% Costs = +0.7% stats.bls.gov Productivity rose 3.5 percent in nonfarm business during the first quarter of 1999, reflecting an increase of 4.4 percent in output and a 0.9 percent rise in hours of all persons. The 0.7 percent increase in unit labor costs in the nonfarm business sector in the first quarter followed a 0.4 percent decline in the fourth quarter of 1998. Wholesale trade for April = unch, +4% Yr/yr census.gov April 1999 sales of merchant wholesalers, after adjustment for seasonal variations and trading-day differences but not for price changes, were $221.9 billion, virtually unchanged (+/- 0.7%) from the revised March level and were 4.0 percent (+/- 1.8%) above the April 1998 level. dismal.com