For if real wages rise we expect services to rise in price in relation to commodities.
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Real demand in oil didn't suddenly massively increase to justify a nearly fourfold rise in price.
Many inputs will rise in price, but around 40% of his costs are in local currency, says Mr Sachetti.
Yes, sure, if the yuan (or renmimbi, either name works) were to rise against the US dollar then yes, Chinese labour as expressed in US dollars would rise in price.
In each case when real rates (calculated by subtracted the 12-month moving average of the year-over-year change of CPI from the 12-month moving average of the 3-month Treasury bill) went negative—in the 1970s, the first years of the new decade, and off and on from 2008 until now—gold has had a dramatic rise in price.
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"Gold stocks, as represented by the AMEX Gold Bugs Index (HUI), an index of 15 large-cap, un-hedged, publicly held gold producers, have not kept up in percentage terms with the rise in the price of gold, and this is especially unusual because mining stocks are theoretically a leveraged play on the price of gold and should rise faster than gold in a rising price of gold environment, " says Nystrom.
Bernanke, though, noted that most of the rise in consumer price inflation stems from a rise in gas prices.
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Shocked and dismayed, the purveyors of conventional wisdom made the circular argument that the unexpected rise in the overall price level was caused by the rise in commodity prices, especially the tripling of the price of oil.
Apart from a rise in demand for jewellery, the rise in the price of gold may, at the margin, reflect demand for real, hard assets, as opposed to the paper sort.
It sketched out a bleak scenario in which, for example, a rise in the price investors demand for holding risky assets in capital markets could make it harder and more expensive for companies and households to borrow.
At least in rich countries, the rise in the price of food (and the share of the family budget it absorbs) has to be kept in perspective.
This is particularly true when governments seek to halt the rise in the price of products.
This was in spite of the 19% rise in the price of oil during the first quarter.
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For the first time in years, there was a sustained rise in the price of enriched uranium.
With the rise in share price, those bets may well be placed again.
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But the rise in the price of gold in particular has raised questions.
Despite this solid rise in the price of gold, the larger gold mining stocks have had difficulty keeping up.
Options traders are piling into Clorox calls to buy into the rapid rise in the price of the underlying.
First, a drop in the exchange rate does not necessarily lead to an equivalent rise in the price of imported goods.
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