In June, inflation in China surged to 6.4 percent, with pork prices increasing by 11.1 percent from the previous month.
With home prices increasing and construction coming back, stocks like Lennar and KB Home have been on a tear recently.
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Going into 2011, we expect the company could increase retail prices due to increasing raw material prices.
Wages seem to be static, but what we're finding is food and fuel prices are increasing.
Apple had grown by more than 30% per year, sales were growing similarly, and prices were increasing.
Argentina suffers a high inflation rate - private economists say prices are increasing by about 24% a year.
Rising oil prices amidst increasing supply and falling demand is proof of U.S. dollar weakness and portends stagflation.
That success, and the falling prices and increasing power of microprocessors, encouraged him to wade into designing electronic toys.
Were the Armenian-Azerbaijani and the Armenian-Turkish borders to open, goods would flood freely from east to west, lowering prices and increasing supply.
And while coalition forces remain in the region, oil prices are increasing, which is the last thing politicians want during an economic crisis.
Unhappy suppliers could try to respond by taking their business to rivals, reducing the cost of producing their products or raising their prices, increasing costs for buyers.
Economists are interested in studying the borrowing response of households to rising house prices and increasing home equity during the recent house price boom for two main reasons.
In a bid to improve its position, Creative embarked on a strategy of cutting prices, increasing advertising spending and offering retailers rebates for selling some its MP3 products.
It could give Silicon Valley a chance to address the problems that threaten its long-term ability to remain the world capital of high-tech: an overburdened infrastructure, skyrocketing house prices and increasing social inequality.
Such an amount is far from inconsequential and banks are likely to compensate for their newfound inability to freely determine interchange prices by increasing their checking account fees while simultaneously lowering the rewards offered by debit cards.
However, if Starbucks continues to increase prices over the next few years in the face of increasing coffee prices, there can be a downside to our forecast.
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In late 2010, increasing inflation, driven by higher and volatile food prices, posed an increasing challenge to economic policymakers and threatened to push millions of the near-poor below the poverty line.
The high estimate may be explained by the increasing prices collectors are paying for major works.
And as a result, supermarkets have responded by cutting prices, and increasing their range of cheaper wines.
The toxic combination of rapidly increasing prices and weak economic output made the 1970s a dreary decade.
Compounding the issue is the overall U.S. economic environment, which is preventing retailers from increasing prices, he added.
We argue that the reason for this is that colleges are able to capture the aid by increasing prices.
So the retailers sit, anxiously wondering when, how, and by how much they can get away with increasing prices.
The Boston Red Sox are increasing prices by an average of 2%, the smallest amount in 16 years, save 2009.
The central bank has taken various measures in an attempt to control rising prices, including increasing interest rates 13 times since March 2010.
In addition, declining selling prices combined with increasing investments in developing new technologies has put downward pressure on its bottom-line.
Consumer prices have been increasing steadily faster than labor costs since the mid 1970s, but the recent jump was more pronounced.
Moreover, the Fed aims to devalue the dollar by about 2% a year, increasing prices 50% over the next 20 years.
But automakers will have to get creative in how they meet the new standard without sacrificing performance or drastically increasing prices.
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Kia Motors is considering increasing prices on its cars abroad and taking other measures to offset the rising South Korean currency.
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