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Industry Personnel Continue to Forecast Prices Will
Increase
Price Analysis
The Price Index for July is 3.441 from June at 3.394.
Industry personnel believe connector prices will increase slightly in
the next six months, putting the index to 3.255.
Industry personnel were asked, In your opinion, what happened to
connector prices in the past six months, and what will happen during the
next six months?
The results of the
April 2008 survey are shown in the following table.
Change
in Connector Prices
A
price index above 3.000 means industry personnel believe prices have, or
will increase.
Methodology:
Increase a lot = 5; Increase a little = 4; Stay the same = 3;
Decline a little = 2; Decline a lot = 1
The following table displays the distribution of responses on the question
of prices.
Distribution
of Respondents
Connector Price Index Prices 6 Months From Now
A price
index above 3.000 means industry personnel believe prices have, or will
increase.
Lead
Time Analysis
Industry personnel were asked, In your opinion, are lead times
increasing, staying the same, or decreasing now and in six months from now?
The
following table provides the survey results, including distribution of
responses:
Order Lead
Times on Connectors
Industry personnel put lead times at 4.5 weeks and predict they will
be 4.8 weeks six months from now.
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