The Justice Department can give you more details about its activity in response to that price surge.
The price surge also has been fueled by increased exports to China, said Shawn Church, editor of Random Lengths.
Of course, there's one sure-fire way to slow the price surge: The Federal Reserve could prop up the dollar, oil's currency.
The price surge in oil (along with other commodities) since the late 1990s has the look and feel of a speculative bubble.
That includes the last part of the price surge in early 2010.
Despite the oil-price surge, the government is deeply in the red.
"The price surge of daily life items has caused mental pressure on those wage earners who are sensitive to prices, " said Wang Shuixiong, a sociologist with Renmin University in Beijing.
Perhaps our retirees are anticipating the much ballyhooed price surge that the inflationistas have been predicting, but more cynical types suspect that they are merely keeping with the tenor of the times.
It'd be hard to find a hotter stock than the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the world's largest open-outcry derivatives market that some have called the " Google " of the financial sector because of its high-flying price surge.
It'd be hard to find a hotter stock than the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (nyse: CME - news - people ), the world's largest open-outcry derivatives market that some have called the " Google " of the financial sector because of its high-flying price surge.
Airlines, for example, have been hit hard by the surge in the price of jet fuel.
That may have caused the recent decline in the value of the U.S. dollar, and the surge in the price of gold.
The dollar looks in danger of plunging, the price of oil continues to surge, gold is going up and world growth is slowing.
Comex gold futures prices ended a choppy trading session with solid price gains on a late surge that saw fresh safe-haven investment demand featured.
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Those of us who worry about sudden inflation face an uphill battle, even though we have raised alarms, since there has been no surge in overall price levels.
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What we are seeing now in the last several weeks and months is a new surge in the price of oil, for a variety of reasons that have to do with the oil -- the global oil market.
With the surge in the gold price, there should be lush profits for the next quarter.
The fall in poverty owes everything to the surge in the oil price since 1999.
Basically, the surge in the gold price seems to be of little concern.
That will show a huge surge in the stock price, because for example short sellers will have to buy back.
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Ms Schapiro notes that, unlike in the Facebook case, IPOs are typically followed by an immediate surge in the share price.
As a result, in areas of traditionally strong British interest, such as the southern Spanish coast, there has been a surge in house-price inflation.
Even with the surge in its stock price, CSCO is still very undervalued due to GAAP earnings that understate the true profitability of the company.
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All started a strong upward surge in their share price at some point in the past 12 months, generally gaining more ground in the last three months.
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If the Iranians were to carry out their threat to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, China would suffer directly, through a likely surge in the oil price.
Record profits, and a resulting surge in the share price of the holding company Inditex that he owns, has propelled Mr Ortega from fifth place, leapfrogging Mr Buffett.
While this year many companies have seen their share prices remain volatile out of fear that the expiry of post-IPO lockups of insiders will lead to a rush of selling, Kors was actually able to break its lockup, selling 25 million more shares into the market before that expired due to the surge in the stock price.
If a surge in demand pushes the price of existing property above its replacement cost, developers have an incentive to build more.
The surge in Barclays' share price after the announcement of his resignation was a sign of weakness rather than of the market's insouciance: the bank was thought to be vulnerable to takeover.
MediaRing.com (which is into Internet protocol telephony) is selling slightly above its IPO price, mostly because of a 35% surge last week on rumors of a takeover or strategic partnership.
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