But consumption has dropped 7% in 2011 because of high and volatile prices.
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He said these include high and volatile fuel prices, increased protectionist measures and the vulnerability of global financial markets.
Many of the issues that Ford says caught it by surprise--gas and commodity prices, for example--were high and volatile from the outset.
In the last few years, many companies have begun adopting energy saving technologies as a matter of good business in a world with high and volatile energy prices.
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Even with details about the explosion unclear, tensions ran high in the volatile region Sunday amid word of the reported attack, which was condemned by some officials across the Middle East.
Furthermore, it may well be hard for investors to spot the difference between a fund manager who is able to produce a high, but volatile, long-term return and one who is simply erratic and incompetent.
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Purely looking at the U.S. without the European drama, that is not a situation where you should have this rapid shift back to volatile, high-beta securities.
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Indian jewelry demand has historically increased during the Shradh period of the Hindu calendar, but last year, high prices and a volatile rupee kept many Indian buyers on the sideline.
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Bernanke also said there is "significant" risk that inflation could become a self-fulfilling prophecy if high headline inflation--which includes volatile energy and food prices--remains high, as people will simply come to expect higher prices.
"People who are investing in the fund understand that it is a high-risk, very volatile fund, " he said on the conference call.
He says he doesn't have much faith in the current rally because the year's best performers have been health-care and consumer-staple stocks that tend to pay high dividends and are less volatile than the broader market.
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With plenty of free cash flow and strong balance sheets, the companies listed above, despite being in a very volatile industry with high operating leverage, would seem to be able to weather all but the most extreme technology slumps.
Meanwhile, although other global markets have reacted quite negatively to the situation, the U.S. market hit a new bull market high just three weeks ago, and although more volatile since, is down only 6% from that high.
The Arizona home builder is long on Toronto high-rises at an unusually volatile time for real estate in Canada's biggest city.
In the mid 2000s, money managers piled into life settlements for their high returns and independence from a volatile stock market.
And although high-frequency trading may make markets less volatile in normal times, it may add to the turbulence at the worst possible moment.
Along with the high anxiety, this uncertainty helps to explain the volatile political impact of the downturn: large numbers of people seem to be amenable to whatever explanation seems freshly plausible.
In April, headline consumer prices rose by 0.7%, a near-nine-year high, while core inflation, which excludes the volatile categories of food and energy, rose 0.4%, or 2.2% compared with a year earlier.
On Wednesday, Steve Bellone, the Suffolk County executive, blamed the breach Sandy cut in an eastern Fire Island preserve, the Otis Pike Fire Island High Dunes Wilderness, for making the bay more volatile.
Part of the problem, according to PPIC, is California's high dependency on personal and corporate income tax, a volatile source of revenue that fluctuates with the economy.
In America, low-tax Nevada is among those trying to lure businesses away from high-tax California (where tax revenues have been extremely volatile).
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Silver remains hamstrung by the high margins the CME Group set earlier this year when prices were extremely volatile, Streible said.
Concerns about the pace of economic growth, worries about European sovereign debt, frustration with Washington and volatile market conditions are combining to keep bearish sentiment at historically high levels.
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Investors who are worried, or who are at a stage in their lives when they simply can't handle another downturn, can always reduce their exposure by selling some of their stocks and mutual funds, or by switching from more-volatile stocks, such as small and midsize companies, to high-quality large-capitalization companies.
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In addition, a recent effort is under way to make use of the many PCIe-based interfaces that are developing as a consequence of the high speed data transfers that are possible using flash memory and future non-volatile memory devices.
Yes, high yield stocks can be good income producers, but they can also be very volatile.
Jitter is anathema to high frequency traders because when the markets reach peak volumes the prices can be their most volatile.
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Trading businesses exhibit high reliance on short-term wholesale funding and to varying degrees what Fitch views as more volatile earnings than commercial banking, and with more opaque risk.
There was an all day program on their plans to develop open source programming tools and general standards to make use of the high speed, low latency and other special characteristics of current and future generations of non-volatile solid state storage.
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