Prices in the capital soared by 9.4% in the past year, the sharpest increase for nearly three years.

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American Electric Power (AEP) chose to delay its plans to build a wind farm in Indiana when the heavily indebted utility found its cost of capital had soared because of turmoil in the corporate-bond market.

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Greece initially benefitted from unrestricted flows of outside capital and wages soared.

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Meanwhile house prices in most capital cities have soared.

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In November, Delta and UAL shares soared after hedge fund Pardus Capital Management tried to push the two together (See "Airlines May Be On Course To Combine").

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That is on top of interest payments well above those available in Japan, plus juicy capital gains as, thanks to falling interest rates, prices of long-term bonds have soared.

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