This year Lowe's began knocking 10% off competitors' published prices.
As part of the investigation, the Commission said it was examining whether the companies may have prevented others from participating in the pricing process "with a view to distorting published prices".
This offers leisure travelers highly discounted fares and also helps suppliers sell excess capacity without affecting published retail prices.
Unsurprisingly, the companies that received the most positive coverage had performed well before the stories were published: their share prices had, on average, outperformed the index by 42.7% once adjusted for sector and size.
Menus and prices could be published on school websites and online orders could be placed in advance.
Inflationary pressures are mounting in Europe's leading economies with figures published on Friday showing German consumer prices were 3% higher last month than a year ago.
This will change on September 15th when the index will be published every month, starting with house prices in July.
According to figures published on September 18th, while house prices increased by 5.7% in London over the past year, they fell by 1.3% in the North West.
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An Indian government panel late last month published a set of proposals to control the prices of patented drugs.
Other findings from more recent data, which was published by the UK government, show how energy prices have risen in the past year.
But there are those warning that deflation is a risk elsewhere, notably in America, where figures published on November 16th showed a fall in consumer prices.
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Since the last set of British Rail fares were published in June 1995, inflation measured by the Retail Prices Index (RPI) has been 66%, according to research by fares expert Barry Doe for Rail Magazine.
In 2006, for example, the entire editorial board of Topology, a mathematics journal published by Elsevier, resigned, citing similar worries about high prices choking off access.
Manufacturing companies were expected to start rebuilding their inventories this month, especially if global quantitative easing continues and commodity prices bounce back, Zhu said in a story published Saturday morning.
According to a feature published in China Daily on Saturday, home sales and home prices are on the decline.
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The Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission say in a report published on Tuesday that courts should be empowered to scrutinise the fairness of prices.
Statistics from the Land Registry published on Monday also show that there has been a 40% increase in prices in Neath, Port Talbot and Swansea.
Published reserves are those amounts that everyone knows are there, are recoverable at current prices.
On the bear side, a survey published by the central bank Tuesday showed that 68% of households still believe that house prices are too high.
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Earlier this month, the Office of Fair Trading published the findings of an inquiry which concluded there was no evidence of profiteering from fuel prices in the Highlands and Islands.
Aussie government bond prices eased by two basis points a day before the July RBA minutes are published with dealers wondering out loud what the central bank has to say about the role of the international economy on its policies.
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In a paper published in April he notes that those bonds and mortgage securities are worth more than their purchase prices.
But a study by Ran Balicer and colleagues at the Israeli Ministry of Health, published in August in Emerging Infectious Diseases, concluded that in Israel it was worthwhile at 2004 prices to stockpile Tamiflu not just for essential workers, but for all patients.
In a briefing paper published earlier this year, the WHO said the scheme had achieved a 40% reduction in drug prices and significantly improved the availability of essential drugs.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that even the German market is starting to wake up after more than a decade of flat or falling prices, but this has yet to show up the index that we use, which is published with a long lag (there are no figures for 2006).
While fundamental factors clearly played a role in driving down house prices that were at excessive levels two years ago, we have argued in a paper (to be published in the Berkeley Electronic Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy) that in most markets house values are today lower than what is consistent with the average level of affordability in the past 20 years.
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