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Show FA VP II MILE FORECAST Downward Price Trend Seen NKW YOFtK.-With Hie postwuir inftiit iorutry price rise uppnrently nea r ing nn end, the prnhnhili t iea Reem to Tivor downward move-rnent move-rnent of the priee Index In the next 12 month'!. It i predicted In a report re-port on '"Hie I'ri'e .rvr" rrle;iRrr hy Itaiikern Trust company. 'JTie report, prep;irerl by Hoy I.. Ileicrori of the hank'a ecotujinle dn. p:ir1mcnt, dde thfit "the pr i v r.f some rna nuf;ic( uref good may show n fuither modest, and proh-tihly proh-tihly t enpor a ry, rin, hut it i he lieved that any auch movement will ,t more than nfTet by df line In 11 f prir eq of farm and fofl rum-fr-ditis and other materials," The bank warned, however, that n combination of conlintfenclea such a bar weiither find a aubstantitil d'-t'-riorati'in nf domestic crop pro-p-ftn could u pie t lis foi era';t. After eyamininii I he factum in-volvefj in-volvefj n the present rise as corn-pared corn-pared with thoie in the price Jump follow InH World War I, the bank said. "since the nil commodity wholesale price Index bn not in-r-ieast'd u rniich tlii time n In Woilfl War I, It In likely that the (In-dine (In-dine In the pi ice level will not be an Revere durintf this cor i ect hut period n It waq In lih'd lli;'l." lin b;tnk cited n number of fur toia to suppoit Mr view. A collapse In farm prices d'es not nppenr hit minent in Iho near future. It an Id Food prices, ulthouch below recent liiKh. nip supported by n hh:h level of em ploy men t and nat ion a I In-come. In-come. Prices of ninny manufactured manufac-tured fc'oocN have risen only moil r rilly despite greatly Increased cnr.lt nf lnhor and liiutciials. Fut thei iiiotr, It la pointed out, the ti eatly Increased supply o pavings and liquid assets tmiy pro vide some suppoit for the plica level. Tlie business Inventory ailtia. t Ion, mot cover, does riot appeal comparable to the excessive monetary mone-tary speculation following Wm hi War I. |