The expectation of increased spending on roads and railways has helped to lift raw-material prices.
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The company blamed a sharp increase in raw material prices and the UK's continuing economic difficulties.
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Going into 2011, we expect the company could increase retail prices due to increasing raw material prices.
The company blamed its administration on a sharp increase in raw material prices and the UK's economic difficulties.
Asian exporters face slower growth abroad, high raw-material prices, growing competition from China and diminishing returns from cost cutting.
After years of declining raw-material prices, clothes firms such as Gap announced profit warnings and saw their shares whacked.
If a persistent shift in raw material prices occurs, Coca-Cola is able to pass the impact along to the consumers.
The competition, especially in the U.S., makes it harder for Whirlpool to pass along higher raw material prices to consumers.
The company has been hit partly by the rise of the euro against the dollar, along with rising raw material prices.
However, increasing raw material prices and a prolonged weakness in consumer spending could pose a headwind to our optimistic EBITDA margin outlook.
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However, weak consumer sentiment and rising raw material prices going into 2011 indicate that there can be a downside to our forecast.
Kimberly shares got socked hard in January after company execs, citing rising raw-material prices and margin-busting marketplace competition, offered downbeat full-year profit guidance.
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First, the pattern for raw material prices over the past century has seen roughly a 10-year upswing followed by a 10 to 20-year secular bear market.
It would be folly to try to roll back energy prics or raw-material prices by contriving recession or encouraging a maintained level of unemployment above 5.5 per cent.
With steel manufacturers already under pressure due to increased raw material prices, it was inevitable that they cut down on production to combat the decline in the steel prices.
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Natural gas prices, electricity prices, raw material prices, project financing costs and availability, emerging technologies and, hardest of all, politicians, who can make or break the industry with their decisions on government subsidies.
Unfortunately, however, retailers ordered holiday inventory when raw material prices were at all-time highs, so they will be passing along those cost increases to the consumer in order to preserve margins, the firm said.
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In Asia's dynamic economies, rising costs constitute the biggest challenge facing business Companies have to cope not only with increasing wages, rents and raw material prices, but also with the tighter money imposed by higher interest rates instituted to dampen inflation.
In spite of the dizzying quantity of material, prices for the better material were generally strong.
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Any deal will not be material to the stock prices of Google, or Microsoft.
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He promised to accelerate many of those actions while cutting costs further in the face of higher gas prices and material costs.
In my view, even if demand for commodities from Developed Markets softens for the balance of the year, demand for commodities from Emerging Markets should help to compensate and prevent any material reductions in commodity prices.
And it also has competitors with deeper pockets who are driving up the prices of its raw material: the rights to stream movies.
Automotive margins have been under pressure due to increasing commodity prices as well as higher material and product-related costs.
We attribute this to rising paper prices, a key raw material.
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Up north in the tar sands, many projects are being postponed, as the credit crunch adds to the woes caused by low oil prices and high labour and material costs.
But with a global capacity glut in 2001 chemical prices softened, even as raw material costs like natural gas began a fivefold price increase.
Piper Jaffray analyst Jesse Pichel said high prices for polysilicon--a key material used in solar cell manufacturing--eroded LDK's margins.
For example, in an intriguing research project with my (rather exceptional) PhD student Amandine Ody, we asked lots of people in the Champagne industry whether different Champagne houses paid different prices for a kilogram of their raw material: grapes.
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The Asahi Shimbun report said a rise in Toyota's prices in the US would also reflect increased raw material costs.
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