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Strong U.S. economic activity should help spur higher growth in the PC industry, according to the CRN index of leading indicators.
Specifically, the index posted a 0.9 percent gain in August, continuing the trend that began in April.
The increase was the fifth in a row and points not only toward higher industry growth in the fourth quarter of this year, but to solid growth rates well into the first half of 1997 as well.
The index, designed to forecast economic activity in the PC sector over the next six to nine months, stood at 106.8 in August, compared to 105.9 in July and 100.0 in March 1995, the first month for which data was compiled. The index bottomed out at 102.7 in...