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Article: Upswing in paper prices seen.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Hospital Materials Management
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Materials managers expect paper prices to rise next year, just as most varieties increased in price over the past year. Reasons for the gloomy outlook range from economic indicators such as the Consumer Price Index to the effect of higher gasoline prices.
Wild price swings
About the only good news is that paper, as a commodity, has a notorious record of moving wildly in response to raw material price swings. That means that what goes up eventually comes down.
But even when the price trend is downward, it is hard for buyers to know when they are seeing the bottom of a market.
For example, in 1999 a third of materials managers saw paper ...