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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 97 14:28 WET DST From: FRIEDMAN.FRED@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV (Fred Friedman) Subject: Re: Price fluctations in OCC, ONP, HGP
Oct 9, 1997
You want to predict price shifts in 3 grades of recyclable paper? So does everybody! How would you go about doing it? You'd have to read, read, read, from expensive, expensive, expensive databases and sources:
1) Dunn Bradstreet and American Business Information, Inc. offer data by SIC code on annual sales, employument for millions of US firms, including all waste SIC codes. Cost: About $7,000
2) Annual Statement Studies by Robert Morris Associates will give you bankers information on financial operating rations and some predictions. Cost: about $5,000
3) The Lockwood Post Directory of the Pulp, Paper and Allied Trades, gives you various financial data on mills and middlemen. Will not predict, but if you read historical data, you may. Much less expensive.
4) There are other sources which any consultant could lead you through or could use for you, and could cost you about double the aggreage amount of these sources, the more accurate, the more expensive.
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