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The purpose of this study is to explore the relations between Taiwan’s business cycle and household consumption expenditure types. It is based on 'food, beverage and tobacco sales' , 'cloth and clothing supplies retail turnover' , 'fuel and related products supplies retail turnover' , 'household appliances and supplies retail turnover' , 'pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and cosmetics supplies retail turnover' , 'automobiles and motorcycles, spare parts, and supplies retail turnover' , 'culture, education, entertainment supplies retail turnover' , 'catering industry turnover'and ' , 'Supermarket turnover'.This nine categories of turnover, respectively represent the nine major industries of household consumption expenditure types. Affairs from January 1999 to December 2018 , totaling 240 months. Compared to Taiwan's business cycles and the stock market benchmark date high and low between the leading and backward relationship. The results of this research are as follows: During the business cycle and the stock market date high:except for the 'culture, education, entertainment supplies retail turnover' synchronize the highs of business cycle and 1.5 months ahead of the peak of the market, the other eight types of retail turnover all lag behind the business cycle and the stock market reached the peak,which can be used as lagging indicators. Around the business cycle reach to the peaks and troughs: the percentage difference between the sales values of the nine categories is between 0.99% and 4.65%. Indicating that the sales value of the nine categories is not the same as the peak or the troughs of the market, and the sales value is relatively stable. |