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Modern interest in business cycles has focussed on the co-movements and correlations in the major macroeconomic aggregates. In this paper we offer another dimension to business cycle analysis which looks at the time series of cross-sectional distributions of the growth rates of sales by US quoted companies from 1950 to 1999. We detect correlations between aggregate business cycle fluctuations and...