There has been price and volume weakness, though supply constraints normally push up the price.
All these things can swell domestic demand and so push up general price inflation.
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It will also push up the price of farmland, whether to grow crops for food or fuel.
Not investing as much in tricky exploration will necessarily reduce long-term oil supplies and will thus push up the price of oil.
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Fears of a much graver disruption of supplies, due to brewing political tensions in the Middle East, have also helped to push up the price.
And restricting land seizures could help push up the price of land on the periphery of urban areas and encourage a more rational use of existing urban land.
"Rising crude oil prices may continue to push up the price of gasoline, offsetting any reduction in the fuel taxes, " says a May Congressional Research Service research report.
So the country has the worst of both worlds: indirect taxes push up the price of Indian goods far beyond the level of, for example, comparable Chinese products, yet the government's tax base grows no wider.
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Bandar said much the same thing on April 1, after he met with national security adviser Condoleezza Rice at the White House amid concerns that OPEC production cuts might further push up the price of oil, with U.S. gas prices already at record levels.
An option to buy their companies' shares at a fixed price gives directors an incentive to push up the share price, bringing the interests of management and shareholders more closely into line.
With property at the upper reaches of the price range, celebrity provenance might increase interest but is unlikely to push up the hammer price.
Specifying more exactly the security that is deliverable helps to reduce that risk, but increases another: that the seller can push its price up.
Mr Noda has pressed President Barack Obama for approval, but faces American opposition over the environmental risks and from those who say it will push up the domestic price of gas.
An unexpected increase in demand from a growing world economy, in particular from China, has helped push the oil price up.
Yet bosses typically had their pay linked to short-term movements in share prices, which encouraged them to take measures to push the share price up quickly, rather than to maximise shareholder value in the long run (by when they would probably have departed).
Now, if only someone at Google could figure out how to push up the company's stock price.
Japan had pushed product design and the assembly-line genius of Henry Ford to new heights, which let it scale up volume and push down the price of Old Economy products.
Rising oil prices push up the rate of consumer-price inflation not just because people are paying more for petrol at the pump, but because companies must pay more to make and transport the goods they sell.
No single individual (except, perhaps, Warren Buffett) can push up a company's share price by buying its stock at an inflated price, but the price of residential property is set locally by the latest transactions.
There, speculative traders can bid up (or push down) the price of gold in the future, using borrowed money.
The productivity push freed up capital for share buybacks, and the stock price jumped an average of 118% a year from 2009 to 2012.
The sudden swing to hawkishness, which emerged in speeches delivered since the January meeting, helped push the domestic yield curve up and bond prices down as markets started to price in higher rates in the future.
As emerging economies push the prices of commodities up and those of manufactured goods down, consumer-price inflation is no longer a reflection of domestic monetary conditions, nor is low inflation a guarantor of economic stability.
"It is good news that debit card surcharges will be displayed in the headline price of flights - as long as the airlines do not use this as an excuse to push up their prices, " said Which? chief executive Peter Vicary-Smith.
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