FEI hit the front page of The Wall Street Journal last week with its quarterly economic conditions survey. We do the survey in conjunction with the Fuqua School of Business at Duke. Each quarter a short questionnaire is faxed to all CFOs and Vice Presidents. Here is the blurb that the WSJ ran on page 1. The full details of the survey can be obtained here .
More companies expect to raise prices in the months ahead.
June poll of 221 companies shows a progressive willingness to raise prices. Firms with extensive overseas sales plan to raise prices less than half as much as those doing business primarily in the U.S., indicating a less-robust global economy, says John Graham, an associate professor of finance at Duke. The biggest increases are expected in the transportation, energy and high-tech industries. Data Warehousing Project Our Research Foundation also just concluded a large project on data warehousing. The full contents of the project are available on the site.