Prices have soared for a variety of other commodities, such as copper, soybeans and cattle.
Beef prices have soared following the worst drought in the U.S. in more than 50 years.
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Despite a devastating drought that plagued much of the country last summer, commercial farm prices have soared.
China housing prices have soared over the last five years, especially in the eastern cities like Beijing and Shanghai.
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Meanwhile, violent crime remains high, food and petrol prices have soared and power-cuts earlier this year dented people's confidence.
And thanks to an escalating taste for diamonds among the middle class in China and India, prices have soared.
Prices have soared, more than doubling in the past month since the company announced it had run out of product.
So even as domestic gasoline prices have soared, refiners are increasing their exports, and that too has contributed to higher prices.
And natural gas prices have soared, destroying some--but not all--of the economic justification for installing small gas-fired turbines to power commercial buildings.
Ticket prices have soared, which is bad for Moscow's old musical intelligentsia.
In Connecticut, power prices have soared over the past decade and are currently the highest for any state in the continental United States.
Brazil has been forced to import more liquefied natural gas (LNG), paying a premium for the commodity, whose prices have soared in international markets.
Prices have soared: the cost of cerium oxide (often used as a catalyst) has increased sixfold since the start of the year, and is 20 times higher than in 2005.
He says that consumers are aware that gas prices have soared "without a major event driving it" and that he feels there is enough support in the Senate to send it to the president.
Over the last two years, as prices have soared, proponents of the Peak Oil theory--which argues that we will soon pass the point of being able to replace reserves as fast as they are consumed--have resurfaced in force.
Analysts from the OECD to the World Bank argue that biofuel demand is the biggest single reason why food prices have soared in the past couple of years, accounting for as much as 70% of the rise in maize prices and 40% of the rise in soyabean prices.
Housing prices in Hong Kong have soared 50% over the past two years, prompting the government to introduce a series of measures to cool the market that includes boosting the land supply and raising property taxes targeted specifically at speculators.
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That is on top of interest payments well above those available in Japan, plus juicy capital gains as, thanks to falling interest rates, prices of long-term bonds have soared.
Second, if investors and firms believed that the Fed, say, would raise interest rates as equity prices soared, they would have borrowed less, so the bursting of the bubble would have less potential for wreaking havoc.
Instead what have soared are the share prices of firms that seem able to grow however bad the rest of the economy is.
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The news will encourage consumers and politicians in Western governments, who have come under pressure after pump prices soared.
But demand for rhino horns and the prices paid for them on the black market have soared in recent years, US prosecutors said.
Oil company profits have soared to record levels, gasoline prices have gone through the roof and we are more dependent than ever on dirty and dangerous fossil fuels.
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