With more confidence in consumer spending, airlines and hotels may be quicker to jack up prices as summer nears, and consumers themselves may be more willing to pay higher prices.
Right now, market prices may be higher than retail prices, providing a subsidy to consumer that passes on losses to refiners.
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One important cause of the recent quiescence of wage pressure may be that prices in general are being held down for other reasons.
First Solar ( FSLR - news - people ) and others may be overstating prices of panel sales that go to the companies' installation divisions and recognizing revenue aggressively.
China's highly publicized effort to boost growth also may have encouraged buyers to believe that prices may be headed up.
For example, if a drought occurred and the coming harvest was expected to be much lower, the futures prices may be in contango, i.e.
This may be why gold prices are currently up by 7% since July 1.
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Though the look may be retro, prices for some of these vintage fashions seem more stuck in real estate boom times.
China may be pushing oil prices up, but it is also importing lots of other goods from the rest of the world: it has shifted out the demand curve in developed economies.
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But the Internet is unlikely to make all prices more flexible, especially because it may often be more efficient for prices to change irregularly.
Some economists have suggested that the wealth effect may be asymmetric: falls in share prices may dampen consumption by more than rising prices boost it.
Although asset prices may be buoyant at the moment, there are other risks ahead.
Once the tax holiday ends, gas prices may be higher than before the tax.
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It may be that lower gasoline prices over an extended period can boost the national economy.
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With less credit in the California market, prices may be driven down even more.
Carriers counting on businesses to cough up premium prices may be in for a disappointment.
Similar worries about pricey oil and faltering house prices may be haunting America's consumers.
While home prices may be nearing a bottom, by no means is the market about to rebound.
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But those lower prices may be luring some buyers back into the market.
With Wall Street wobbling for much of this year, the wealth effect from share prices may be weakening too.
Local prices may be distorted by trade barriers on beef, sales taxes, or big differences in the cost of property rents.
So far the fears may be overdone: house prices in most of the country are still below their level in 1989.
Spread betting prices may be a better guide than either the polls or sophisticated election calculators to what is going on.
PPP, because prices may be distorted by trade barriers, sales taxes and differences in the cost of non-traded inputs such as rents.
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However, the fall in prices may be driven mostly by expectations of increased supply, especially from Russia, rather than of falling demand.
While the prices may be an incentive, for the most this game was an inadequate trailer in which to entice the home faithful.
It's clear that some pro teams are anticipating a tough year ahead, the solution for which may be cutting back ticket prices or losing sales.
High pork prices may be attracting new entrants into pig farming.
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PPP, because local prices may be distorted by trade barriers on beef, sales taxes or big differences in the cost of non-traded inputs such as rents.
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