Another more rational explanation is that Iran threatened missile strikes only to keep oil prices high.
With oil prices high and excess liquidity in the world, there aren't reasons for massive worry.
Keeping prices high, Apple iPhones will see their market share gradually fall to 17.2% by 2015.
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You have to have prices high enough to make people want to invest in facilities (to expand output).
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With conventional fuel prices high and rising, Pag couldn't have picked a better time to take on the challenge.
And that's even after America disposes of thousands of tons of crop and dairy just to keep market prices high.
They tried to fan the fire and keep those stock prices high in order to avoid eggs on their face.
The firm controls much of the world's trade in rough gems, and uses its market power to keep prices high.
Lenders' write-offs have been surprisingly low during the latest downturn, largely because interest rates are low and house prices high.
One thing that has kept commodity prices high has been the lack of supply to meet a huge growth in demand.
One of the things academia has been doing to keep prices high is by coming out with new versions very frequently.
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Mark-up to mark-down is a pricing strategy whereby retailers set regular merchandise prices high and then turn around to offer customers discounts.
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Optimism is not warranted, though, as fundamental factors are poised to keep the market tight and prices high in the medium to long-run.
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Reports suggested that the Chinese government may change regulations that would get around Chinese producers who have cut their supply while keeping prices high.
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No one knew where to mark the line on inflation, causing companies to keep prices high in case their underestimated their own inflation targets.
Additionally, the energy corporations push scarcity of energy to keep prices high and promote their alternatives (wind and solar) to maintain their grip on energy.
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But as OPEC's failed efforts to keep oil prices high have proved, production cuts can stabilize prices only if all suppliers stick to agreed reductions.
But strong growth in Asia should keep metals prices high for years, while a shortage of engineers and equipment is hampering investment in new mines.
Mehdi Morassaie, the province's anti-drugs supremo, hopes to keep prices high.
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Strong global demand, inadequate spare production capacity, and threatened interruptions in the flow of oil from big suppliers Iran and Nigeria kept prices high this week.
As for the rapidly rising cost of memory pushing up the bill of materials, this matters less to Apple, a company that can traditionally keep prices high.
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With gas prices high, ECP's management wanted this equity back.
Fare analysts say airlines test demand route by route, starting international prices high and then offering some seats at low prices, for example, four or five months before departure.
Rising demand in China (and other emerging economies, such as India) is likely to keep fuel prices high for the foreseeable future, because global spare capacity is currently tight.
And he criticised those firms which kept prices high for millions of existing customers while offering cut-price deals online to attract new business and deter potential competitors from setting up.
So Japanese firms are caught in a vicious circle: because they are not selling to poor countries, their volume stays low, which keeps prices high, which makes selling to poor countries infeasible.
The recent round of quantitative easing will fail to keep bond prices high with yields low so we will continue to short the long term Treasury bond, seeing virtually no opportunity in bonds.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging the common pharmaceutical industry practice of paying generic drug manufacturers to drop their patent challenges, which critics say hurts consumers by keeping prices high.
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