The fear is that a jump in prices will squeeze profit margins as the cost of commodities, goods, and transportation spikes up.
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You'll have greater efficiencies in transportation of goods but probably not, in the short run, with services.
The Commerce Department also reported that orders for non-transportation durable goods in January rose by a stronger-than-expected 1.9% (the most in a year).
With increased gas pump prices, extra effects included diminished margins for industries - from transportation to consumer goods.
The logic is that transportation firms move goods in transit and provide a glimpse into the pipeline of corporate America.
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You have become -- (applause) -- you have become the hub for the transportation for the goods and people that are -- flow through East Africa.
's Consumer Price Index, the federal government's primary inflation yardstick, measures the prices of a mix of consumer goods and services such as transportation, energy, food and medical care.
Both services are eyeing up a bumper prize, the Olympic Games in London in 2012, where visitors are likely to be able to pay for souvenirs, transportation and other goods and services via their phones.
Excluding the volatile transportation category, durable goods orders fell by 0.7% in October, the biggest drop since a 1.7% fall in August.
Excluding the volatile transportation category, durable goods orders fell by 1.6 percent.
The challenge was part of Iconathon, a nationwide series of day-long workshops during which policy experts and graphic designers create abstract symbols that represent concepts in food, transportation and other public goods.
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The White House even fought to the bitter end for a cap-and-trade bill that the House passed and would have imposed higher costs for electric power, transportation, manufacturing and most goods and services as this tax flowed down the energy chain.
It means investing in transportation and communications networks that move goods and information as fast as possible.
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Excluding transportation, new orders for durable goods are up 9.6% at an annual rate in the first five months of 2006 while unfilled orders are up 12.8%.
The fundamental impulse that sets and keeps the capitalist engine in motion comes from the new consumers, goods, the new methods of production or transportation, the new markets, the new forms of industrial organization that capitalist enterprise creates.
It means investing in transportation and communication networks that can move goods and information as fast as possible.
The figures are a part of Mercer's annual cost of living survey, which covers 143 cities across six continents and measures the relative cost of more than 200 items in each location, including housing, transportation, food, clothing, household goods and entertainment.
Money saved by residents on transportation costs can be spent on housing, goods, and services.
We will upgrade our transportation and communication networks so you can move goods and information more quickly and more cheaply.
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Impressive growth in air freight is largely a result of growing demand for transportation for high-value and perishable consumer goods.
The goods and services under inspection--including housing, transportation, food, leisure and household supplies--are representative of executive spending patterns, and the selection of the cities reflects the request for corresponding data from the groups that use the study's findings.
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Auto companies and consumer goods firms have to spend larger percentages of their budgets on transportation and fuel than do banks or a technology services providers.
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There are also emissions associated with goods and services purchased by hotels, such as waste management and transportation.
During this period, Americans purchased their first manufactured and packaged goods, moved into vertical housing, and demanded electricity, mass transportation, and education for their children.
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Moreover, as suggested above, transportation costs are much lower and delivery times far shorter when goods are made here.
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The commitment comes as economics are changing for making goods overseas: Labor costs are rising in Asia, while oil and transportation costs are high and increasingly uncertain.
But it also requires us to build world-class transportation and communications networks, so that any company can move goods and sell products all around the world as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Go back just a few more days, to last Friday, and there was another report that the Obama campaign would like to crumple up: U.S. durable-goods orders dropped by 0.4 percent in July, excluding the volatile transportation sector.
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We also learned today that the advance report of durable goods orders declined in August, largely as a result of a decline in orders for transportation equipment.
And while durable-goods orders rose a seasonally adjusted 1.6% last month, economists note that outside the volatile transportation industry, orders fells.
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